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GoLocalProv
April 29, 2018
“Our three newest board members join an exceptional group of leaders who are steering the Council into the future. As we mark our 45th anniversary in 2018, our board members serve as ambassadors who promote the critical role of the humanities in Rhode Island's civic and cultural life,” said ElizabethÃÂ ...
FOX 61
April 29, 2018
HOPKINTON, R.I. — A man and four teenagers from Connecticut have been arrested for the attempted armed robbery of a Rhode Island convenience store. Hopkinton is just over the border from Connecticut, the first Rhode Island town I-95 passes through. Police there say they got a 9-1-1 call from Spicer'sÃÂ ...
Ricentral.com
April 29, 2018
NARRAGANSETT - The Town of Narragansett recently sent an application to the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) requesting the state to construct and maintain a 12-foot-wide, approximately 1,700-foot-long extension to the William C. O'Neill Bike Path. The new addition, ifÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 28, 2018
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The next national census is coming in 2020, and here in Rhode Island's state capital, the Census Bureau is conducting its sole dry ... Rhode Island's governor and some city officials complained at a news conference this month that the “gross incompetence” of the Providence CountyÃÂ ...
The Weather Channel
April 13, 2018
A tiny Rhode Island town has taken a stand to protect the environment and wildlife by banning balloons. Earlier this month, in ... are a poor alternative. New Shoreham joins other Northeaster cities, including Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Nantucket and Provincetown in Massachusett, in banning balloons.
Mother Nature Network
April 10, 2018
Birthday parties and gender-reveal announcements will certainly lose some of their sizzle in the town of New Shoreham, Rhode Island. Effective April 9 ... Several cities in New Jersey, including Atlantic City, and several cities in Massachusetts, including Nantucket and Provincetown, have banned balloons.
Las Vegas Review-Journal
April 6, 2018
NEW SHOREHAM, R.I. — Town officials have voted to ban all balloons from Block Island. The New Shoreham Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday to eliminate the sale, distribution and use of all balloons. WPRI-TV reports the ban goes into effect next Monday. Police will enforce the ordinance.
The Boston Globe
April 4, 2018
NEW SHOREHAM, R.I. (AP) — Town officials have voted to ban all balloons from Block Island. The New Shoreham Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday to eliminate the sale, distribution and use of all balloons. WPRI-TV reports the ban goes into effect next Monday. Police will enforce the ordinance.
The Providence Journal
April 2, 2018
Mine is meeting and reaching as many people as possible with a positive message and vision for [Rhode Island].” ... Augustus, who was hired as Fung's campaign press secretary last week, said the Cranston mayor and presumed GOP front-runner did not attend because he was working on his city budget.
Boston.com
April 2, 2018
You can choose between 140 of them and mingle with the filmmakers at the five-day Southeast New England Film, Music & Arts Festival from April 24-28. This year, the Providence, Rhode Island, festival's 10th anniversary, films will include “Beauty Mark,” “Painless,” “In Searching,” and the documentary “AÃÂ ...
Uprise RI (blog)
April 2, 2018
Suever also called for a uniformity clause, which would prevent cities and towns in Rhode Island from promulgating their own laws to protect employees from wage discrimination. Anti-labor groups often introduce “uniformity” or preemption laws. I wrote about them here. Last year, in eleventh hourÃÂ ...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
March 31, 2018
A Rhode Island nudist campground is looking for a lifeguard, and the uniform is cheap: nothing. The Providence Journal reports Dyer Woods Nudist Campgrounds' help wanted notice for a lifeguard this summer says qualified candidates must have “excellent communication skills” and the ability to “work asÃÂ ...
Johnston Sun Rise
March 30, 2018
When Rhode Island PBS put out the call in December for the next Our Town location, two towns emerged quickly and strongly. By the time the January 31 deadline arrived, it was clear that support from two towns was equally enthusiastic. "The people have spoken, and the two towns we will visit for theÃÂ ...
Travel+Leisure
March 15, 2018
The identity of the little New England town, beyond the beaches and the lobster shacks, has long been tied up with its Gilded Age mansions, its fancy boats and cars. People come here to gawk at how America's elite — the Vanderbilts, the Astors, the Morgans — lived more than a century ago. But NewportÃÂ ...
The Denver Post
March 3, 2018
TIVERTON, R.I. — A Rhode Island school district is asking local taxpayers to dig deeper into their pockets to fund next year's school budget. But don't expect outrage in Tiverton. The school committee wants a total of $1. The committee is proposing increasing the next fiscal year's school budget by $800,000ÃÂ ...
Care2.com
December 31, 1999
New Shoreham, R.I., might tout itself as being the smallest town in the smallest state, but it just did something really big for the environment and wildlife by banning balloons. The Town Council just unanimously passed an ordinance that bans the sale, distribution and use of balloons throughout the town,ÃÂ ...
The Providence Journal
December 31, 1999
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Twenty-six Rhode Island cities and towns are suing major drug manufacturers, accusing them of conspiring to generate enormous profits while spurring the nationwide opioid epidemic. Warwick, Cranston, North Providence, Charlestown, Jamestown and a host of other towns filed suitÃÂ ...
Rhode Island Public Radio
December 31, 1999
More than two dozen Rhode Island cities and towns have joined a growing legal attack against the manufacturers and wholesalers of prescription opioids. ... “I've spent the last several months going from each town council, explaining to them what we were doing nationally and asking them to sign on,'' EvaÃÂ ...
Rhode Island Public Radio
December 31, 1999
More than two dozen Rhode Island cities and towns have joined a growing legal attack against the manufacturers and wholesalers of prescription opioids. ... “I've spent the last several months going from each town council, explaining to them what we were doing nationally and asking them to sign on,'' EvaÃÂ ...
Governing
February 28, 2018
The "Red Flag Executive Order," which Raimondo signed at Warwick City Hall surrounded by gun-control advocates and police officers, may turn out to be mostly symbolic. A change in state law is required to give the courts and police the authority to seize firearms from people they believe are dangerous.
Uprise RI (blog)
February 28, 2018
Providence City Council President David Salvatore and the crest of the city council today announced their intention to request legislation that would enable Rhode Island municipalities to regulate firearms. The proposed legislation would remove section 11-47-58 – The Firearms States Preemption clauseÃÂ ...
Rhode Island College News
February 28, 2018
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Rhode Island College Foundation announced today that it has received $500,000 in funding from the Feinstein Foundation, ... the Rhode Island College Foundation to support Age-Friendly Rhode Island, a statewide coalition working to help Rhode Island cities and towns becomeÃÂ ...
MassLive.com
February 28, 2018
The city of Worcester has spent more than $54,000 on consulting services in its attempt to lure the Pawtucket Red Sox from Rhode Island and into the city's Canal District, records show. As the city began to strongly eye the team last summer, it hired several consultants to assist in wooing the PawSox.
U.S. News & World Report
February 28, 2018
PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (AP) — Single-use plastic bags will soon be banned across all of Aquidneck Island. The Newport Daily News reports the town council in Portsmouth on Monday voted to ban single-use plastic bags starting Sept. 1. The measure is aimed at protecting the environment. Newport andÃÂ ...
Rhode Island Public Radio
February 25, 2018
The town wears its achievement with pride. A highway sign outside town declares "Haleyville — Where 911 Began." Banners hanging from street lights bear the town seal, featuring a red phone receiver and the words "Home Of 911." Then just inside City Hall is the centerpiece: In a special alcove, a clearÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 25, 2018
A town will consider whether to appeal a judge's decision to award $42,000 in attorney's fees to the East Greenwich firefighters' union for its successful ... The Providence Journal reports that Town Council President Suzanne McGee Cienki said in the email to residents that the council will discuss the matterÃÂ ...
Worcester Telegram
February 18, 2018
In true Belichick style, whenever Mr. Augustus has been asked by the media about the negotiations between the city and the PawSox, his answer has always ... PawSox officials have been working to get a new stadium built in Pawtucket, but some Rhode Island lawmakers are hesitant about incorporating aÃÂ ...
The Providence Journal
February 18, 2018
Also this week, Residential Properties Ltd. said it has been ranked as the top real estate company in Rhode Island for both number of residences sold (1,852) and overall ... 13, clearing the way for construction to begin this spring, according to Town Planner Phil Hervey and project consultant Frank Spinella.
U.S. News & World Report
February 16, 2018
Providence Activists Push for Rent-Control in City. Activists in Providence launched a campaign this week to put a rent-control ... DARE must submit a petition with the proposed ordinance before City Council considers the measure. If the council doesn't enact the ordinance, 5 percent of registered votersÃÂ ...
Boston.com
February 11, 2018
Locals call Pawtucket the craft beer capital of Rhode Island for good reason. The city is home to three individual breweries with their own spaces: Foolproof, which bases brews on life experiences; Crooked Current, the smallest brewery in the smallest state; and Bucket, which is known for its trivia and movieÃÂ ...
Rhode Island Public Radio
February 9, 2018
Gina Raimondo's campaign made a fundraising agreement with the Providence Democratic City Committee. (Caveat: it's unclear if this agreement will remain in place now that Patrick Ward has resigned as Prov Dem chairman.) Yet the deal looks like an effort to expand Raimondo's already-ampleÃÂ ...
Boston.com
February 9, 2018
Locals call Pawtucket the craft beer capital of Rhode Island for good reason. The city is home to three individual breweries with their own spaces: Foolproof, which bases brews on life experiences; Crooked Current, the smallest brewery in the smallest state; and Bucket, which is known for its trivia and movieÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 9, 2018
Parents of a student diagnosed with autism sue a Rhode Island city and an elementary school principal saying both did nothing to protect their child from alleged ... The Providence Journal reports the parents — identified by the initials B.R. and A.R. — claim the city of Warwick and Cedar Elementary SchoolÃÂ ...
Johnston Sun Rise
February 8, 2018
By Thomas Greenberg. All 39 cities and towns in the state are now recognized as “storm ready” by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency (RIEMA). Rhode Island becomes the first state in the country to have all municipalities reach this recognition.
Cranston Herald
February 8, 2018
By Thomas Greenberg. All 39 cities and towns in the state are now recognized as “storm ready” by the National Weather Service (NWS) and the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency (RIEMA). Rhode Island becomes the first state in the country to have all municipalities reach this recognition.
Rhode Island Public Radio
February 8, 2018
Taiwan is "grateful to the many offers of assistance & support coming from around the world," Tsai, who was in the city Wednesday to view the damage, said toward the end of the day on Twitter. "Although relief efforts in #Hualien are sufficient, your warmth & kindness have been felt by people of Taiwan.".
Rhode Island Public Radio
February 8, 2018
But analysts also see these attacks as an attempt to punish opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad, by targeting towns and villages in Syria that are sympathetic to the opposition. Last month, the Syrian opposition decided to boycott peace talks hosted by Russia in the Black Sea city of Sochi. HassanÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
February 8, 2018
Officials say one person has sought treatment since the city of Providence launched a program to help connect people suffering from an opioid addiction to recovery centers. Feb. 8, 2018, at ... Providence became the first Rhode Island city to offer "Safe Stations" at all 12 fire houses Jan. 2. The program isÃÂ ...
Business Insider
February 8, 2018
Ever since the mid-1990s, police officers and fire fighters in the town of Cranston, Rhode Island had been promised state pension benefits upon retirement. But, facing critical budget shortfalls over the last several years that the Rhode Island government called “fiscal peril,” the state legislature voted to unilaterally reduceÃÂ ...
Rhode Island Public Radio
February 7, 2018
But Mayor Mitchell said public spaces like Fort Rodman are a vital part of enhancing the city: “This is something that we highlight because it's a strong selling point for the city. You stand out here and you forget that you're in a city, as untarnished an ocean view as you'll ever get.” Mitchell is 48. He grew upÃÂ ...
Press Herald
February 7, 2018
The council had previously been split on the issue. Some members of the community's Easton's Point neighborhood said the measure would limit larger homes and in turn decrease the amount of property taxes those homes generate. Others said the town's largest residences are “ghost homes” that limit theÃÂ ...
WPRI 12 Eyewitness News
February 6, 2018
PROVIDENCE , R.I. (WPRI) – The National Weather Service named Rhode Island the first state in the country to have all municipalities recognized as StormReady. The Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency (RIEMA) announced that all cities and towns in the state have completed a six point planÃÂ ...
Rhode Island Public Radio
February 6, 2018
In the short term at least, Mayor Elorza pointed to positive indicators for Providence's budget. He spoke during a recent interview at Rhode Island Public Radio. “We've balanced our budget, we've finished with the largest surplus in the city's recorded history," said Elorza. "We have completely paid off theÃÂ ...
Bond Buyer
February 5, 2018
A federal appeals court's upholding of Rhode Island's pension overhaul in 2011 and 2015 is a credit positive for Cranston because benefit changes for the city's public safety pensions will remain, said Moody's Investors Service. On Jan. 22, a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheldÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
February 5, 2018
The price of gasoline in Rhode Island is up four cents this week. AAA Northeast said Monday in its weekly survey that self-serve regular is averaging $2.61 per gallon. That's the same as the national average. The average price of gasoline in Rhode Island is 38 cents higher than it was at this time last year,ÃÂ ...
Rhode Island Public Radio
February 5, 2018
Before the city was established, the area we now know as New Bedford was populated by the Wampanoag tribe, who had settlements throughout southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In May of 1602, nearly two decades before the pilgrims arrived in Plymouth, an English explorer and privateer,ÃÂ ...
Rhode Island Public Radio
February 4, 2018
He and other farmers in the area pull water from the nearby Elandskloof Dam — part of a network of dams that farmers, villages and the City of Cape Town share. Farmers here work on a quota system. An irrigation board determines how much water each farmer needs to grow certain crops, and how muchÃÂ ...
Rhode Island Public Radio
February 2, 2018
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza seems like a happy guy these days and it's easy to see why: he can use his State of the City address Tuesday to crow about how Rhode Island's capital city is boasting a surplus, along with a rainy day fund and a two-notch improvement in its credit rating; the mayor and hisÃÂ ...
Rhode Island Public Radio
February 2, 2018
By raining down laser pulses on some 770 square miles of dense forest in northern Guatemala, archaeologists have discovered 60,000 Maya structures that make up full sprawling cities. And the new technology provides them with an unprecedented view into how the ancient civilization worked, revealingÃÂ ...
WCAX
January 5, 2018
In Mississippi, frigid weather is causing water pipes to burst underground in Jackson, the state's largest city. The city ... A mail carrier who works in Providence, Rhode Island, is taking the postal service's unofficial creed to heart. ... Dannel P. Malloy says more than 100 warming centers are open in 34 towns.
