Archive for February 2021
Your Coronavirus Update – Today, Feb. 9, 2021
Photo: New England Patriots Team Plane RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY State update will be Thursday at 1pm – we will carry it live on our Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/RINewsTodaydotcom Note: The CVS and Walgreens locations are for ANY Rhode Islander who is eligible, no city residency required (Johnson CVS takes all Rhode Islanders, not restricted…
Read MoreOur Networking Pick of the Week – Central Chamber
This week’s Networking Pick of the Week is the Virtual Morning Coffee with the Central RI Chamber of Commerce. Held on Thursday, Feb. 11th, from 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM. Zoom from the comfort of your own home or office – You Bring The Coffee – they’ll bring the connections. Make new connections and strengthen…
Read MoreMaybe We Should Mind Our Own Business – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern and be clear that what belongs to other is their business and none of yours. – Epictetus In his fascinating book How Women Rise, Dr. Marshall Goldsmith and his co-author Sally Helgensen, explore 12 “habits” women typically display…
Read MoreLauren Lancellotta, of Johnston receives RI Trucking Assoc/Women in Trucking Foundation scholarship
The Rhode Island Trucking Association (RITA) and the Women In Trucking (WIT) Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit affiliated with the Women In Trucking Association, are pleased to announce that Lauren Lancellotta of Johnston, Rhode Island is the second recipient of the RITA WIT Foundation Lena Daly Scholarship. The award recognizes emerging leaders in the trucking industry…
Read More“what just is…isn’t always just-ice” – Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gorman stunned us once again. Before an audience of over 99 million people, Gorman read her poem at the SuperBowl pre-show which honored three Americans who have been named Honored Captains of the Superbowl: Los Angeles educator Trimaine Davis, Florida nurse manager Suzie Dorner and Pittsburgh-based James Martin, a Marine veteran who volunteers with…
Read MoreRI Weather Today – Mon, Feb. 8, 2021
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Clean up day after about 6-12 inches of the good white stuff. High pressure and reflected radiation keep temperatures from climbing much above the 20’s in the afternoon, up from the upper teens in the early morning and evening hours. A brisk and gusty northwesterly breeze will knock the chills down…
Read MoreSuper Bowl – just what the country needs – John Cardullo
by John Cardullo, sportswriter The Super Bowl – just what the country needs during a year that no one will ever forget. But – this event will be remembered for many things other than the pandemic. Yes, here we are again, Super Bowl weekend. Where something old is new again and something new is trying…
Read MoreLearn more about classicism – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo: Androssan mansion, by Horace Trumbauer, inspired “The Philadelphia Story” (HouseHisTree) Alexis de Tocqueville discovered, during his visit to our country in the early 1830s, that we Americans form more associations to pursue civic goals than in Britain or, I suppose, in France, his native land,…
Read More9 RI agencies receive funding for vaccine education for communities of color
In their first joint community investment, the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation and Tufts Health Plan Foundation are giving $1 million to 42 organizations across the region to expand vaccine education, awareness and outreach in communities of color. Nine Rhode Island organizations will receive a total of $175,000 in funding. Just one month after Harvard…
Read MoreYour ART can go – here – Garrahy Judicial Complex. RISCA application open.
Calling all artists! The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) is requesting qualifications for a new public art commission for the Garrahy Judicial Complex parking garage, which is located at 1 Dorrance St., Providence. The deadline is Feb. 15 at 11:59 p.m., and the applications will be reviewed by a public art selection…
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