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Pawtucket’s Youth to Senior Snow Shoveling program – sign up NOW
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…
Read MorePassages – Life and Times of Morris Nathanson
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…
Read MoreThe Station Fire. 20 years ago. “41 Signs of Hope” (3 of 4)
(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…
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 MoreMorris Nathanson, R.I.P. – David Brussat
by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There – contributing writer (Editor’s Note: Brussat submits this testimony on the morning of Nathanson’s funeral) This is a sad moment for Pawtucket and the rest of Rhode Island, and a sad one for me. A tear runs down my cheek. We have lost one of the most influential…
Read MoreNeighborhood views of the proposed Hope Street bike lane
Photo: Hope Street Merchants Association Part one. A lively and at times heated discussion about the proposed bike lane on Hope Street, Providence, ensued after more than 20 small-business owners sent the city’s mayor, Jorge Elorza, a letter on August 22 urging him to stop even an early October trial of a bike lane. That…
Read MoreTop Story of the Week: Lifespan closes popular weight and wellness center, disrupting care of hundreds
UPDATED: Lifespan to close its Centers for Weight & Wellness. Patients react. May 18, 2022/RINewsToday This story has been updated, see below The Center for Weight Loss and Wellness at Lifespan’s Miriam Hospital location is shutting its doors. The program, portions of which are associated with the Optifast product, is honoring contracts as they wind…
Read MoreUPDATED: Lifespan to close its Centers for Weight & Wellness. Patients react.
This story has been updated, see below The Center for Weight Loss and Wellness at Lifespan’s Miriam Hospital location is shutting its doors. The program, portions of which are associated with the Optifast product, is honoring contracts as they wind their way down, depending on pre-payment schedules. No new patients are being accepted. Approximately 1,000…
Read MoreRI News For You: National, local news for you to know, passings of note
by Nancy Thomas Our second issue of “RI News for you” – an occasional quick summary of happenings when they happen – to keep you more informed in your busy day, and our busy news cycle. ALEXA! “I want to talk to a doctor” – Amazon’s ALEXA and Teladoc Health are teaming up to provide…
Read MoreThe passing of international artist, Mihail Simeonov, exhibited in Rhode Island
We learned of the passing of internationally recognized artist and sculptor, Mikhail Simeonov. Simeonov exhibited in Rhode Island in 2019. On his Facebook page was a notice in Bulgarian. It reads, (with imprecise translation): The sculptor Mihail Simeonov left us. A long winding journey full of hard work and obstacles is over, but the adventure…
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