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Hope comes back to Hope Street. Fixing sidewalks from Rochambeau to 5th St. in the Mayor’s plan.
Photo: From the report filed by the Providence Streets Coalition to the City of Providence to support bike lanes on Hope Street shows the cracked and lifted sidewalks. The energetic, failed efforts to bring bike lanes to one of the most congested Providence roadways – East Side’s Hope Street merchants area – didn’t seem to…
Read MoreIn the news… for Oct. 14, 2023
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY 4 colleges will pay $223.5M in PILOT taxes Biden administration sending team to assess migrant impact on Massachusetts Lesley Univ. laid off over 15 professors and cut programs Rare manatee visting RI waters turns up dead Portsmouth, NH Airport renting fire truck from Rhode Island as none of theirs were working…
Read MoreIn the Arena with Newport Mayor Xay Khamsyvoravong
This week Joe Paolino, Jr. interviews the new Mayor of Newport, Xay Khamsyvoravong. Xay says he sees Newport as providing a role model for other cities and towns. Yet its uniqueness in terms of history, culture, and more, leave it as a city worth serving. Housing, education, and transportation are his three priority areas. Housing…
Read MoreIn the news… for June 3, 2023
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY 190 candidates have registered for TODAY’s Providence Public School Department Hiring Event – 584 positions are currently being recruited for and applications are encouraged online An extra 515 acres for quahogging in Mt. Hope Bay, Warren were opened on May 28 Newport Polo will host the Ukraine Polo Team on its only North…
Read MoreIn the Arena – with Providence Mayor Brett Smiley
Each week, Joe Paolino, Jr. interviews leaders in Rhode Island on issues of relevance to residents and businesses. Here he interviews new mayor of Providence, Brett Smiley, They discuss schools, bike lanes, the budget, taxes, transportation and bus hub ideas, the search for new Providence Police chief, and police recruitment. Here is the interview: Watch…
Read MoreIt’s been a long time comin’ – The Pawtucket / Central Falls Transit Center
Photo: Gov. McKee office The opening of the Pawtucket-Central Falls Transit Center took place as the culmination of years of planning and completion of a $63 million design-build project that began four years ago. More than two-thirds of the project cost, approximately $43 million, was paid for with federal funds. Governor Dan McKee and other…
Read MoreRead With Us: CITY LIFE – a book by Michael Morse – Chapter 13
by Michael Morse, contributing writer Chapter 13 – Helmets He could have been my brother or friend or a guy I work with. If not for the drool dripping from the corner of his mouth and helmet he wore on his head, he looked like your typical thirty-eight-year-old guy. He lived with people three times…
Read MoreIn the news… for December 10, 2022
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Cellar Stories bookstore will close in Providence Residents of Rhode Island have an additional 24 months to obtain their REAL IDs, a document that will be necessary to board domestic flights and enter certain federal buildings, after the Department of Homeland Security on Monday extended the enforcement deadline to May 7,…
Read MoreIn the news… updates for 10/23/22
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Cranston police gets $779K federal grant to equip officers with cameras Incoming Mayor Smiley to pause Kennedy Plaza plans until after Superman building project completed – says he will also evaluate the city’s bike lanes “to nowhere” Hope Street Bike Lane trial has merchants organizing a petition in the community Providence…
Read MoreHope Street biking fun derails on data, money and influence
The eight-day Hope Street bike trail trial ended at 6 pm on Saturday with what appears to have been a bike-a-thon to the street in the final few days. The results of the trial will be inconclusive because the survey the PVD Streets Coalition said they were conducting failed to reach out to the community…
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