Archive for May 2021
URI Master Gardener private garden tours
Here is the online registration for the 2021 URI Master Gardener Program Gardening with the Masters Tour We are shaking things up this year, and inviting you to visit the private gardens of 26 URI Master Gardener volunteers on two weekends — June 12-13 and September 25-26, 2021! Admission tickets cost $30/each (digital guidebook) and…
Read MoreBook launch supports St. Mary Academy – Bay View scholarship
St. Mary Academy – Bay View’s Alumnae Office is sponsoring a virtual book signing featuring their classmate and author, Mari Nardolillo-Dias. Her book is entitled, GriefSpeak: Stories of Loss. The registration (which is free and open to the public) can be found online at http://bit.ly/griefspeak as well as the Bay View website at www.bayviewacademy.org/reunion/classes/class-of-1970/book-signing. The links provide options…
Read MoreYour RI Weather Today – May 10, 2021
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Overnight rain associated with a passing cold front will end early, with gradually diminishing cloud cover as the day progresses. Morning low will hold around the upper 40’s and rise to an afternoon high in the low 60’s. Light winds will shift from northerly to southwesterly as high pressure tries to…
Read MoreTop Story of the Week: Twin Oaks Men’s Softball at 35 – John Cardullo
Original article: April 30, 2021/John Cardullo, sportswriter. This article gained more readers than any other this week! 35 years this season – and no intentions of slowing down! It takes a lot to start a men’s softball team and keep it together. Most teams on average may make it to the five-year mark which is…
Read MoreYour RI Weather Today – May 9, 2021
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Saturday’s weather makers are over and done with, and we’ll start out nicely enough, sunshine lasting until early afternoon as cloud cover advances ahead of a warm front developing over the Appalachians. We’ll get some showers out of this system as well beginning by evening and lasting through the night. Morning…
Read MoreIn the Arena – Jessica Waters, Nowell Leadership Academy
Each week Joe Paolino, Jr. interviews people of interest on his program, “In The Arena”. The show airs at 7am on Sundays on ABC6. This week his guest is Jessica Waters, Executive Director of the Howell Leadership Academy. They discuss the Providence charter school that specializes in pregnant and new parent young people who have…
Read MoreTo: Mom – Love, Psychology – Alan B. Feinstein
by Alan B. Feinstein Photo: The Family of Man, Edward Steichen – Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Mexico, 1948 Editor’s Note: Occasionally a submission will come to us when it’s least expected and most needed and wanted. Thank you to Alan for this Mother’s Day article – and Happy Mother’s Day to all. Throughout the history of…
Read MoreGimme’ Shelter – Benjamin Button
Hello! I was brought in by someone who said that I was a stray but, I am not so sure about that. I seem to behave like I was in someone’s home and not socialized but that’s neither here nor there now! I am a shy guy and a little scared of most things, sadly,…
Read MoreToday’s informational picket at Pawtucket nursing home “postponed”
On Saturday, May 8 at 3:00PM, frontline caregivers at the Pawtucket Falls Nursing Center at 70 Gill Ave, Pawtucket, who are members of SEIU 1199 New England, would have been holding an informational picket to “demand respect and dignity, fair wage increases to attract and retain caregivers, and affordable health insurance”. In the early afternoon,…
Read MoreYour Weekend Weather Wrap – May 8/9, 2021
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Saturday: Low pressure out to sea and a weak trough of low pressure to our west will combine to provide cloud cover through the day, and the trough will generate some afternoon showers beginning around 4-5 pm and lasting til early evening. Morning lows will start in the mid 40’s and…
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