Free ‘Skin Check’ screenings at Rhode Island Beaches – starts TODAY

If you and your family missed it last year, this year be sure to stand in line and make a plan to have your skin check-ed. Between Friday and mid-August, the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH), Brown Dermatology, and partners statewide will be making free skin cancer screenings available at select Rhode Island parks…

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GriefSPEAK: The Feast and my birthday, namesake, memories – Mari Nardolillo Dias

st. mary's feast

by Mari Nardolillo Dias, EdD, contributing writer Note: Next weekend welcomes St. Mary’s Feast of Madonna Della Civita in Cranston. Until recently, the feast has always been celebrated on the 21st of July, the author’s birthday and namesake. It seems appropriate to reprint on this to provide the history of the feast on this, her 72th birthday. One…

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