Posts Tagged ‘deaths’
In the news… summary for week ending June 8, 2024
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Waterfire full lightings reduced from 10 to 5 this year, due to cost Southborough, MA teacher terminated for holding a “slave auction” in a mock lesson about slavery in America Voters will vote on whether or not to hold a new RI Constitutional Convention in November Hooters in Warwick has closed…
Read MoreIn the news… quick look at the week ending June 1, 2024
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Providence Brewery a finalist for the Sam Adams “Brewing the American Dream” award 4 girls stabbed in a Braintree, MA movie theater – a couple was stabbed right after in Plymouth, immediately afterwards, where there had been a riot on the beach, with over 100 arrested on Memorial Day weekend Waterfire…
Read MoreIn the News… quick look for week ending April 20th
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Potter League aids Pawtucket Animal Control in rescuing ten dogs from hoarding case. CCRI receives Military Friendly School designation for the third year for supporting student veterans with resources and opportunities. CON dates set for RI: Anime, June 15-16 & RI Comic Con, Nov. 1-3 – both at AMP Center Worcester,…
Read MoreIn the news… summary for April 13, 2024
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY PC Basketball Coach Kim English has had his contract extended by 6 seasons Port of Davisville auto business expected to increase by 25% with Maryland bridge fiasco Rep. Magaziner announced $485K in federal funding for the Johnston PD – portable radio units, carbine patrol rifles, pole mounted speed measuring signs and…
Read MoreIn The News… summary for April 6, 2024
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Newport County residents, Salve Regina University students, and anyone stationed at Naval Station Newport can visit the historic Newport Mansions for free next weekend. Pawtucket has formed a committee to decide what to do about City Hall Rhode Island is no longer double-checking the labels on produce grown locally by organic…
Read MoreIn The News… summary for March 2, 2024
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY P.J. Fox, former director of the Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence will become director of community violence intervention and prevention for Attorney General Peter Neronha RI Sen. Whitehouse said there were “many pots” of money at the national level to help pay for a bridge repair, takedown, etc.…
Read MoreIn The News… summary for February 3, 2024
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY East Providence, 5th largest city in RI, has plans to build its first community center UNH has closed is Museum of Art due to declining enrollment and funds Meteorologist Anthony Macari at NBC10 has announced he is leaving the station, going into another line of work, but staying in the local…
Read MoreIn the news… update for July 29, 2023
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Savoy Bookstore in Westerly closing Clydesdale, 10 years old, Mounted Police Command Horse of the PPD passed away Jay Leno is performing at PPAC on 9/27 100,000 people were estimated to have attended the St. Mary’s Festival in Cranston The pilot of a small plane that crash-landed on the Massachusetts island…
Read MoreIn the news… for July 15, 2023
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Providence Restaurant Week goes through 7/22 Rhode Island residents, ages 55+, bring a valid Rhode Island ID to the Cardines Field in Newport on July 19 to receive free admission to a Newport Gulls game. Nicole J. Benjamin, a shareholder at Adler, Pollock & Sheehan in Providence, has been elected president…
Read MoreIn the news… RI, region, national, international, and passings of note update for July 8, 2023
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY $25,000 in fireworks and property were stolen from a Coventry fireworks stand – they resupplied to open again for the rest of the holiday Providence Veterans Administration Cardiopulmonary Vascular Biology (CPVB) Center of Biomedical Research Excellence a renewal grant of $4.4 million There will be a bike path in Cranston connecting…
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