Archive for July 2021
RI 2020-2021 Spring Sports State Champions – Taking home the gold – John Cardullo
By John Cardullo, sportswriter The Rhode Island Interscholastic League after a lot of twisting and turning made it to the finish line and closed the chapter on what will forever be known as the “Pandemic Season”. As the spring sport season reached the end, creativity and determination were the theme of the RIIL, as it…
Read MoreNEW Feature – “Ron & Jen’s Great Escape”
Editor’s Note: Today begins a new weekly feature with RINewsToday – “Ron & Jen’s Great Escape” Featuring of RI radio fame, Ron St. Pierre & Jen Brien, their column will provide commentary on the passing Rhode Island scene. GET A BROADER BRUSH Before wrapping up this session’s business, the General Assembly made civics education and…
Read MoreYour RI Weather Today – July 14, 2021
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Saturated low level air with calm conditions will keep fog in place in the early morning. Daytime heating will break it up before long, but we’ll be in for a fairly humid day under gradually breaking cloud cover. Some late evening showers and thunderstorms should form well inland and try to…
Read MoreIf it’s Wednesday, it’s Sour Grapes! – Tim Jones
by Tim Jones, cartoonist Tim Jones is the creator, artist and writer of the widely popular, self-syndicated comic strip, “Sour Grapes” – a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world. Sour Grapes is currently published in multiple newspapers in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California…
Read MoreNewport Pell Bridge moves to electronic-only tolling in October
Back in February, the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority (RITBA) announced a pilot program of moving to all-electronic tolling – and by the end of October of this year, that program will now be instituted permanently. Tolls at the Pell Bridge will be all-electronic, eliminating cash and credit card transactions. “We are continuing to…
Read MoreYour RI Weather Today – July 13, 2021
by Jack Donnelly, meteorologist Still on the cool side of the latest in the seemingly never ending series of fronts, temps will remain below normal under extensive cloud cover and passing morning showers. Low in the low 60’s rising to the low 70’s in the afternoon with a light easterly breeze.
Read MoreHopeHealth Visiting Nurse accredited for home care & palliative care
Photo: HopeHealth Visiting Nurse After completing a rigorous review this spring, HopeHealth Visiting Nurse has once again received accreditation for its home care and recertification of its community-based palliative care programs from The Joint Commission. The Joint Commission awarded HopeHealth its Gold Seal of Approval® for demonstrating continuous compliance with performance standards. The Joint Commission…
Read MoreCranston’s St. Mary’s Feast – is back! July 14-18
To Cranstonians, summer isn’t summer until the St. Mary’s Feast bunting goes up along Park Avenue and Phenix Avenue. That’s when the excitement builds, religious or not, for the traditional event celebrating all things Italian – food, games, amusement rides, multi-generational family fun, and of course, fireworks on Sunday evening to top it all off.…
Read MoreRI partnership will fund arts, culture, and humanities nonprofits
RI Arts and Humanities Councils open grant applications for American Rescue Plan funds to culture, humanities, arts nonprofits Historic collaboration between Councils distributes $968,000 of funding from National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for Humanities RI State Council on the Arts (RISCA) and the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities (Humanities Council) announced today…
Read MoreWhy Senior Executives Fail; A Universal Story – Mary T. O’Sullivan
By Mary T. O’Sullivan, MSOL Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes. – Lewis Grizzard In the early 1990’s, the late Jack Welch gathered 20 of his brightest executives to capture rubrics of their success. These individuals were the future senior leaders of GE. They spent…
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