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ATTLEBORO – Dayspring Christian Academy successfully hosted its first-ever Holiday Artisan Fair recently at the school located at 1052 Newport Avenue (Route 1A) in South Attleboro with more than 40 vendors exhibiting their wares and services. Despite a steady rain outdoors, several hundred patrons filed through the school’s gymnasium and abutting corridors on a Thursday [...]

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Pictured left to right: Roberta Bernier, Maureen MacDonald, Debi Dasilva, Ana Coelho, Rosalynn Davila, Jackie Pinto, Bob Loiselle, Micki Veerman Pawtucket, RI – The staff of Loiselle Insurance “adopted” 12 residents from the Mansion Nursing Home in Central Falls, and purchased numerous gifts for each, including winter jackets, sweat suits, sweaters, jewelry, and pajamas. Gifts [...]

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Doctors and medical staff at Family Medicine Associates in North Attleboro are sending their youngest patients home with free books and important advice for their parents – “Read to your children every day.” Congressman Jim McGovern (MA-03) visited the practice and read to a group of young children, emphasizing the importance of reading aloud. Family [...]

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Northern Lights Electric, a well-known electrical contractor serving Southeastern MA and RI, celebrated the relocation of their offices to 50 Fisher St. in N. Attleboro, with a Ribbon Cutting event on Thursday, December 11, 2008. The Ribbon Cutting was coordinated by the North Attleborough & Plainville Chamber of Commerce. Numerous Chamber board members along with [...]

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Greater Attleboro Leo Club Donates Christmas Stockings to Christmas is For Kids Program. Pictured are 47 students and advisor Mrs. Patty Gamboa at Attleboro High School based Leo Club with their donation of 75 filled stockings for this years “Christmas is For Kids”. Ms. Kelly Fox was so thankful for their annual donation. Ms. Fox [...]

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Feehan Senior Selected as Soprano for MENC’s All-Eastern Honors Ensemble Bishop Feehan High School senior Bethany Conway of Cumberland, RI was selected for chorus soprano by MENC (Music Educators National Conference) and will perform at their 2009 All-Eastern Music Conference to be held March 12-15 at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence.  Conway went through [...]

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I know we cannot yet notice, but the earth, in our neighborhood, is tilting back toward the sun. It is tilting only a smidge each day, but those smidges add up. March 22, 2009 is not that far away. Then the smidging gets serious. The seasons’ changes are a cycle measured and predictable. Other changes, [...]

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I’ve been spending a lot of my time during the day staring out of the living room windows, watching the comings and goings happening close to home. There are three windows that face out on the street, positioned at just the right height to keep my nose busy. Two of the glass showcases have furniture [...]

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Tiverton RI – The Tiverton Arts Council is pleased to present “Watercolors,” an exhibition of watercolor paintings by Tiverton artist, Helen Sturges Nadler. The exhibition at the Tiverton Town Hall will run from January 13 to March 10, 2009. An opening reception will be held on Friday, January 16 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm [...]

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Newport – BankNewport President and CEO Thomas Kelly, TSRI Fundraising Chairman Tom Goddard and TSRI President Bart Dunbar pose with a “Don’t Give Up the Ship” banner, symbolic of the battle flag flown by Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry during the War of 1812. When it is ready to sail in 2011, the Oliver Hazard Perry [...]

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