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In the News… recap of the news of the week, ending April 26, 2025
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Sen. Whitehouse wants to start a $1M/day fund for the deportee, Garcia, until situation is resolved – he could receive the taxpayer funds at the end of his ordeal 71.4% of Rhode Island children have met the well-child visit goal, ranking #3 in US – provided by Birth Injury Lawyers Cooperative…
Read MoreIn the News… recap for week ending November 16, 2024
A quick roundup of happenings of the week in Rhode Island, the region, nationally, and internationally – with passings of note. RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Deborah Flannery, RI Housing Dept Deputy Sect, appointed in Dec, 2023, has resigned to take a job with Vermont Housing Finance Agency Ken Block produced new documents saying the East…
Read MoreIn the News… recap for week ending Sept. 21, 2024
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Ship’s Inn Restaurant in Warwick closed during repairs from a car going into the building WADK’s Bobb Angel, on radio for 58 years, wraps up his career and entered semi-retirement on Thursday. Bobb will continue broadcasting local sports at WADK Nantucket has denied a public records request filed by Nantucket Current seeking access…
Read MoreIn the News… recap of the week, Aug. 24, 2024
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Read MoreIn the news… summary for week ending June 22nd
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Read MoreIn The News… summary for February 10, 2024
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Two-time Chopped champion, Eli Dunn and his fiancée and business partner, Rachel Lopes-Almeida, will open a Portuguese-inspired care in Bristol – Folklore Provisions. The 41 Brown students arrested for illegally demonstrating will be arraigned Feb. 12 & 14 A group of Brown students called Hunger Strike for Palestine say they will do…
Read MoreIn the news… for the week ending for Sept. 30, 2023
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Lack of referees for local sports – 106 games have been moved from “Friday Night Lights” to Thursday night Cranston Fall Festival rescheduled to October 1st Cranston Fire Dept event (fundraiser for Oaklawn Ave. residents outplaced due to flood) rescheduled to Sept. 30th The National Association of State Directors of Teacher…
Read MoreIn the news….updates for Sept. 23, 2023
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY Central Falls Mayor Maria Rivera and Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos are co-chairing The Rodel Institute’s efforts in a few select states, RI being one, to build bridges where there has been partisan divide Gather RI, a new organization to promote women and on-binary people run for office has formed in RI…
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… for April 22, 2023
RHODE ISLAND & VICINITY East Side Cheese and Provisions to open on the East side of Providence RI Airport will spend $19M for improvements – runways, fencing, and a new baggage handling system WPRI Ted Nesi begins 6 weeks “delayed paternity time” Exeter Fire is thought to have been caused by a homeless encampment of…
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