Archive for October 2021
Gimme’ Shelter – Thackery’s waiting – Boo!
Meet Thackery! He’s the perfect Halloween kitty waiting for a purr-fect home. Hey guys! I am the newest kitty from the camper case! I am a great and friendly guy who can live with other cats. Like most of my family, I don’t like being picked up much, probably because that’s how I was captured…
Read MoreThe Social Determinants of Health – a short story – Michael Fine
By Michael Fine, author, contributing writer ©2020, 2021 Michael Fine This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. Brigetta was strong…
Read MoreHalloween memories. No time to lose. – Michael Morse
by Michael Morse, contributing writer I’m four or five, ready to go. My first real costume is on – and has been for hours. It’s a monkey suit, complete with a nice long tail. We got it from Sears, and I can still smell the newness of it, the faint plastic, the elastic that got caught…
Read MoreIn the Arena – with Matt Weldon, RI Dept. of Labor and Training
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 Matt Weldon, Acting Director of the RI Department of Labor and Training. Weldon and Paolino talk about the status of employment in Rhode Island, nationally and…
Read MoreYour RI Weather Today, Oct. 31, 2021 – John Donnelly
by John Donnelly, meteorologist This latest frontal system rides the witches broom northeastward out of our area, but we may be haunted by a stray shower left behind in its wake early. Morning lows in the mid 50’s rise in the afternoon to the mid 60’s with a gusty southwesterly breeze. Trick-or-Treaters should not have…
Read MoreRhode Island Fire Chiefs sends off Honor Flight – John A. Cianci
by John A Cianci, Department Veterans Service Officer, Italian American War Veterans (ITAM) In the early morning hours on Saturday, the Rhode Island Fire Chiefs sent off a group of 60 war time veterans to Washington, DC, on the first Honor Flight since 2019. Honor Flight recognizes American Veterans for their sacrifices and achievements by…
Read MoreRhode Island gains if the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA) passes – Jeff Gross
by Jeff Gross, contributing writer Photo: Block Island Ferry website Currently in the U.S. Congress is a bill, H.R. 2773. This bill is called the Recovering Americas Wildlife Act (RAWA). This bill looks to provide monies in addition to the Pittman-Robertson act to improve wildlife conditions of greatest need. Since RAWA is a supplemental fund…
Read More2-dose, child-sized Pfizer vaccine authorized by FDA for 28 million children, 5 to 11. Vaccinations could begin next week.
The CDC will formalize the FDA’s Emergency Use recommendation of the Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5 through 11 this coming week. 28 million children (20% of population) will be eligible to receive the vaccine. The dose would be at a one-third strength and delivered in two shots, three weeks apart. Here is the statement…
Read MoreRI Weekend Weather Wrap – Oct. 30/31, 2021 – John Donnelly
by John Donnelly, meteorologist Saturday, 10/30/21: A broad low pressure system over the mid-west will spawn development of a secondary low off the mid Atlantic coast which then moves north, driving Atlantic moisture across the resulting warm front, generating steady light rainfall through the morning. We may see a gap during the afternoon before the…
Read MoreRhode Island Compassion Centers. And the winners are…
Complete with lottery balls and a blind-folded former FBI-guy official, 5 new Compassion Center applications were chosen by the RI Department of Business Regulation and the Office of Cannabis Regulation. Tension hung in the air, noticeable even to the ZOOM watchers. Silent with a few darting eyes from RI’s Cannabis Coordinator Matthew Santacroce revealed little…
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