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Health Urgent call by Rhode Island Blood Center for Type O- and B- blood RINewsToday / June 13, 2025 CNAs to be trained at URI in administering medication in state facilities Device developed in Rhode Island a breakthrough in pediatrics – the SMöLTAP® Positioner New report recognizes music’s therapeutic and financial value in Alzheimer’s care –…

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Vibrant, outdoor socializing space, and a mural, coming in 2024 at Pawtucket’s Senior Center

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The Pawtucket Division of Senior Services/Leon Mathieu Senior Center has announced its receipt of a grant from the Harriet Ballou Foundation that will support the Leon Mathieu Senior Center’s (LMSC) Mural and Socialization project to create a vibrant public event space including a mural, for socializing in an underutilized parcel of land adjacent to the…

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Pawtucket’s Youth to Senior Snow Shoveling program – sign up NOW

A man shoveling snow with a blue shovel.

Mayor Donald R. Grebien and the Pawtucket City Council announced that Pawtucket’s Youth to Senior Snow Shoveling Program is now accepting requests from Pawtucket seniors who are aged 65 and over who wish to be placed on a list to be matched with a snow shoveling volunteer for this upcoming winter. Through this program, student…

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Passages – Life and Times of Morris Nathanson

A man with glasses and a mustache is leaning against a brick wall.

By Herb Weiss and Phyllis Van Orden Nathanson Painter, Illustrator and Restaurant/Hospitality Designer Morris Nathanson’s artist studio is just a stone’s throw away from his childhood home on Japonica Street in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Growing up poor during the depression in his Pleasant View neighborhood, settled by Armenian and Syrian immigrants who worked in the…

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The Station Fire. 20 years ago. “41 Signs of Hope” (3 of 4)

41 signs of hope by dave kane.

(Note: February 20, 2023 marks the 20-year anniversary of the Station Nightclub fire. This article, reviewing Dave Kane’s book, “41 Signs of Hope,” was initially published in the Pawtucket Times on December 20, 2014 and with us, again, in 2017 – we reprint it today – written by RINewsToday contributing writer, Herb Weiss. The tragic, untimely death of a…

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