Out and about in RI: Pawtucket Arts Festival’s Slater Park tradition of fun for all ages. Photos.

Outdoor orchestra concert under trees.

The Pawtucket Arts Festival and Slater Park Fall Festival was as success as the beautiful weather this past weekend! Here, courtesy RINewsToday writer, Herb Weiss, are some photos of the events this past weekend from the Slater Park event – complete with vendors, activities, a car show, entertainment, the Philharmonic Pops concert – and topped…

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

A building with a green awning in front of it.

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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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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