Archive for September 2022
ART! In Pawtucket – Arts Festival Gallery Tours, Latino Roots Art Exhibit
Art – Jeanne Raimondi, “Old Florida Fish House”, Acrylic, The Pawtucket Watercolor Society The Pawtucket Arts Festival is gearing up. Beginning on September 11th with the free 2nd annual Gallery Tours, the 1st Tour check-in starts at 10:30am at Pawtucket City Hall. Parking is available in the City lot on Roosevelt Avenue. The 2nd Tour…
Read MoreRon & Jen’s Great Escape – 9-7-2022 – Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien
by Ron St. Pierre and Jen Brien, commentary OLD FART A lot of people struggle with this whole aging thing and really I haven’t figured out why yet! I know it’s not pretty at times, and being young is wasted on young people, but each decade has its hardships. First there’s “teen angst”, then there’s trying to…
Read MoreNew vans for older adults, people with disabilities in 5 RI cities/towns, starting in Pawtucket
Community Van Will Help Meet Mobility Needs for Older Adults and People with Disabilities U.S. Senator Jack Reed and Congressman David Cicilline joined the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) and Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien to welcome a new community van to the Leon Mathieu Senior Center. The 16-passenger van will be used to transport older adults…
Read MoreRI Weather for September 7, 2022 – John Donnelly
by John Donnelly, meteorologist Low pressure drifts southeastward and drags the frontal boundary with it, rain driven off the southern coast with time. Drying air begins to fill the area, and cooling towards evening may allow for whatever low level moisture is left to form some overnight mist. Daytime highs around 70 cool to the…
Read MoreIt’s Sour Grapes! – Tim Jones
by Timothy 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,…
Read MoreRI Weather for September 6, 2022 – John Donnelly
by John Donnelly, meteorologist Ripples of low pressure ride along a fairly stationary frontal boundary over the area, with an efficient rainfall delivery system that will extract nearly every possible drop through the day, with a conservative estimate of 3 inches of rain falling in twenty four hours. Flooding of low lying areas likely to…
Read MoreCollege Crusade rebrands as Onward We Learn
College access and success program announces new name, advances same mission The state’s most comprehensive college readiness program, formerly known as the College Crusade of Rhode Island, announced today it has changed its name and brand identity to Onward We Learn. The announcement follows an eight-month process that engaged over 125 students, staff, alumni, parents and…
Read MoreURI Theatre’s season from mean streets to fairytale woods. Tickets on sale now
Lineup features ‘Polaroid Stories,’ ‘Or,’ ‘By the Way, Meet Vera Stark’ and ‘Into the Woods’ The University of Rhode Island Theatre Department’s upcoming season will transport audiences from the darkest edges of the city where “dreamers, dealers and desperadoes” roam, to a 17th century London flat and the meetings of lovers and spies, to the trials of a…
Read MoreReforming Rhode Island government’s human services safety net – Richard Asinof
by Richard Asinof, ConvergenceRI, contributing writer The last televised debate between the Democratic candidates running for Governor in 2022 will occur on Tuesday, Sept. 6, a week before the primary election. But the odds are pretty good that there will be no questions – or answers – about the release of the report by the…
Read MoreIn the news… updates on 9/6/22
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Ann & Hope complex in Warwick will put in a large U-Haul storage facility – other stores to go in in the future URI did not receive funding from the $79 million federal Commerce program announced to support the Blu Economy. It would have expanded the “Bedraggled” Bay Campus. Billionaire New…
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