LOCAL SCHOOL RECEIVES VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS Fr. Chris Peschel, parish priest at St. John the Evangelist Church, Attleboro, dressed up as St. Nicholas and visited the school on December 6, the Feast of St. Nicholas. A rich man whose set out to help the needy, St. Nicholas was a bishop who lived in the […]
OPEN CALL TO ARTISTS?? The Pawtucket Arts Collaborative is pleased to announce our Open Call to Artists for the 11th Annual Pawtucket Foundation Prize Exhibition. ??This year’s Juror is Pawtucket’s own, internationally recognized, Morris Nathanson.???? All artists working in all media are invited to submit up to two images and an application online. ??Deadline is??March […]
Rhode Island Post Card Club December 17th Meeting The Rhode Island Post Card Club holds its Holiday meeting and sale on Sunday December 17th from 9 AM to 1 PM at the Knights of Columbus, 15 Bassett Street in North Providence. The hall is easily accessible from Route 146. Take the Mineral Spring Ave. exit […]
A Snowy Winter is Predicted PHOTO BY ED HUGHES Respecting Snowy Owls – Visitors from the Arctic Tundra Smithfield, R.I. (December 6, 2017) ??? A few Snowy Owls are typically spotted in Rhode Island each year, but over the past few weeks sightings have been on the rise. We may be experiencing an irruption year, […]
The Chorus of Westerly Presents The 37th Annual??Christmas Pops?? WESTERLY, RI ?????The Chorus of Westerly continues its 2017-2018 season with the popular holiday favorite,??Christmas Pops??on Saturday, December 16 and Sunday, December 17, 2017. Joining the 190-voice Chorus of Westerly and conductor Andrew Howell is the Pops Festival Orchestra, to present a program of traditional and […]
Signatures Could Put Paid Leave, $15 Wage on Ballot Andrea Sears – Commomwealth News Service BOSTON — Community organizers say they have twice the number of signatures they need to put paid family leave and a $15 minimum wage on next year’s state ballot. The grassroots effort gathered almost 275,000 signatures from 346 of the […]
Pawtucket Public Library Awarded Grant PAWTUCKET ??? The Pawtucket Public Library was recently awarded a $60,000 grant from the Champlin Foundation for the restoration and repair of the Dome Tower in the Gerald S. Burns Building. The grant will go toward the Library???s match for their $150,000 grant from the Rhode Island Historical Preservation & […]
WOMR Announces Kickoff of Capital Campaign Cape Cod???s only community nonprofit radio station to raise money for capital improvements Provincetown, MA, December 5, 2017: WOMR???s capital campaign for studio and transmitter upgrades has begun and is actively seeking donors, the community radio station announced today. The aim of the capital campaign is to upgrade aging???and […]
