EARTHTALK Q&A Tire Pollution: Scourge Of Road Traffic, Regardless Of Drivetrain Microplastics, 6PPD and particulate matter are a few of the nasties that come off your tires as you roll merrily down the road… Credit: Pexels.com Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss November 9, 2023 Dear EarthTalk: What kinds of pollution do automobile tires cause? Tire wear […]
Pawtucket Fire Department Among First in Rhode Island to Have Full Time Paramedic EMS Division PAWTUCKET – The City of Pawtucket’s Fire Department is proud to announce that it is one of the first departments in the State of Rhode Island to have all four rescues at the paramedic level, the highest level. “This is a […]
Combating Chronic Absenteeism with #AttendanceMattersRI It’s #Cool2BeInSchoolRI! Recently, we launched our #AttendanceMattersRI campaign to mitigate chronic absenteeism in Rhode Island at Stephen Olney Elementary School in North Providence. Joined by Governor Dan McKee, Mayor Charlie Lombardi, Superintendent Joseph Goho, Principal Anthony Pacitto, and Rhode Island State Teacher of the Year Aimée Couto, among other state, town and […]
Our November 26 concert features a quintet of wonderful musicians from Providence and Boston,a veritable jazz band of Renaissance improvisation. John Tyson, recorders, pipe & tabor, crumhorn Douglas Freundlich, lute & cuica; Laura Gulley, violin, viola Miyuki Tsurutani, harpsichord, recorders, crumhornDaniel Rowe, cello The program called “Carols for Dancing” featuressome familiar Carols treated in a very free, Renaissance […]
TIVERTON FOUR CORNERS GALLERY Our Featured Artist for November is Barbara Edlund Healy Barbara Healy’s paintings are inspired by the diverse colors of light in the beautiful coastal landscape where she lives. She frequently paints plein air, using all her senses to share her vision. Paintings capture that feeling of peace and joy that […]
“I paint American people, and I tell American stories through the paintings I create.” AMY SHERALD, ARTIST Amy Sherald is an American painter known for a style referred to as “simplified realism” documenting the contemporary African-American experience in the United States, typically through large-scale portraits and often working from photographs of strangers. Sherald was born in 1973 in Columbus, Georgia […]
Celebrating Our Golden Bears at Homecoming 2023 Homecoming festivities began on Friday afternoon, October 20th with the Golden Bears’ Luncheon, a reception for Bridgewater State University alumni celebrating their 51st reunion and beyond. The Dunn Conference Suite was full of excited chatter as old friends reconnected for the first time in years, reminiscing about days […]
A CHRISTMAS CAROL Attleboro Community Theatre (ACT) welcomes the holiday season with the classic, family-friendly tale of redemption and holiday spirit, ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens. Though London awaits the joyful arrival of Christmas, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge thinks it’s all humbug, berating his faithful clerk and cheerful nephew for their views. Later, Scrooge encounters the ghost […]
