Archive for June 2022
A Ball and a Wall – Michael Morse
by Michael Morse, contributing writer Brick was better for the wall, especially if the mortar was loose, and a tennis ball was best for the projectile, but any small ball with a little bounce would do. During the lonely days of summer when you’re twelve or thirteen or so, nobody around, and the days are…
Read MoreRI Weather Today, June 12, 2022 – John Donnelly
by John Donnelly, meteorologist An advancing warm front ahead of low pressure over the midwest will eventually trigger some light rain beginning around midday and carrying on through the day and night. Morning lows in the low 60’s rising to highs in the mid 70’s with a south-southwesterly breeze gusting to 25 mph in the…
Read MoreDiscover Beautiful Rhode Island – Jason Michalski
by Jason Michalski, contributing photographer “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Who misses my landscapes ? Interesting about change is that, those who love your work will always support no matter what but I lost a lot of that…
Read MoreWork in the hospitality biz? FREE days at the Newport Mansions for you…
Newport Mansions Celebrate the Hospitality Industry this week. The Preservation Society of Newport County will offer employees in the hospitality industry free admission to the Newport Mansions on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 13-15, 2022. Hospitality Days allow free admission to The Breakers, Marble House, The Elms in Newport, and Green Animals Topiary Garden in Portsmouth. Additionally, Rosecliff will…
Read MoreIn the Arena: Joy Fox on running for congress
Each week Joe Paolino, Jr. interviews leaders and politicians in Rhode Island. This week he interviews Joy Fox, candidate for Congressional District 2, to replace Congressman James Langevin. They discuss national issues of the day of importance to Rhode Islanders. Fox mentions mental health s such an important issue to RI children and families, and…
Read MoreAMBER Alerts comes to Instagram
Through a partnership with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Meta will add the power of the Instagram community to finding and saving children at risk. Facebook rolled out AMBER Alerts in 2015 and has since assisted law enforcement in hundreds of successful child endangerment cases in the US and globally. This…
Read MoreGimme’ Shelter – Baloo Banjo at the Providence Animal Control Center
Chow fans! I am a young guy, definitely under one year old and I am coming out of my shell after being abandoned by my former people. I was shy and timid for a little while but now I know more of what to expect day by day. I am all of the things that…
Read MoreFlub planned by Providence Preservation Society for its own 1769 headquarters – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There Photo: Unsympathetic glass-and-steel addition planned for rear of 1769 Old Brick School House. (PPS) I drove up downtown’s beautiful Westminster Street yesterday and saw director Brent Runyon of the Providence Preservation Society sitting outdoors at a café around noon. I wanted to scream at him: “WTF are you…
Read MoreBurn with Kearns: Warrior Reset Mechanics. Using our ancestor’s techniques – Kevin Kearns
Burn with Kearns: Warrior reset Mechanics – How our ancestors’ techniques can speed up performance recovery By Kevin Kearns I love this field of fitness! What have I noticed over the past 35 years in the trenches? I have found that what is old is new. Fitness techniques of old always end up coming back. In…
Read MoreBusiness Beat: RI’s 1st new compassion center in 8 years, Sweetspot, will deliver statewide
First new center to open in more than 8 years will offer statewide delivery For the first time in more than eight years, Rhode Island is getting a new medical cannabis compassion center. Plant Based Compassionate Care, doing business as Sweetspot Dispensary, is opening its facility at 91 Pershing Avenue in South Kingstown. Sweetspot was…
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