As the new year begins, the SWIG program is wrapping up last year’s completed grants while preparing for the 2022 grants season. One SWIG-funded project completed in 2021 was “A Comprehensive Plan to Restore Water Quality in Hundred-Acre Cove” by Save The Bay of Providence, RI. Hundred-Acre Cove is a shallow estuary at the head […]
Join us at Towne Tavern and Tap restaurant for a fundraiser to support Angelcat Haven Feline Rescue! Just come to the restaurant at 11 Robert F Toner Boulevard in North Attleboro on Monday, February 28 for dine-in or takeout. Show our Facebook flyer on your phone or tell your server upon ordering, and […]
Smell the Green Skunk? BY DON DOUCETTE Soon…soon it will begin to appear. Watch your wetland areas. When we were kids in the neighborhood and had tired of long dormant winter weather, we ached to spot this early bright flash of spring green as if a tonic. A sure promise of the fresh […]
Rhode Island Post Card Club February 27th Meeting The Rhode Island Post Card Club holds its next meeting and sale on Sunday February 27th from 9 AM to 2 PM at the Knights of Columbus, 15 Bassett Street in North Providence. The hall is easily accessible from Route 146. Take the […]
National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend Arrives February 18–20 with Nationwide Online Ordering Consumers who don’t already know a Girl Scout can now support girl leadership by purchasing cookies online from a local troop for direct shipment or donation to local causes. Warwick, RI—February 14, 2022— Girl Scouts of Southeastern New England and Girl Scouts […]
Miller calls for equity focus as part of Lifespan, CNE merger review STATE HOUSE – Sen. Joshua Miller (D-Dist. 28, Cranston, Providence) is urging Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Interim Health Director Dr. James McDonald to make equity a central focus of the state’s review of the proposed merger of Care New […]
Free Virtual Valley Talks Continue with Presentation on History of Vaudeville in Woonsocket WOONSOCKET, R.I. – Valley Talks, a series of biweekly historical lectures presented by the Museum of Work & Culture, a division of the Rhode Island Historical Society, continues Sunday, Feb. 20, at 1 p.m., on Zoom. Researcher Kathryn Sos-Hayda and […]
Boston Fed Marks Firsts with New CEO … MIT and Tufts Presidents Announce Plans to Leave Posts By John O. Harney Comings and Goings … SUSAN M. COLLINS The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston named University of Michigan Provost Susan M. Collins to be the bank’s next president and CEO. An international macroeconomist, Collins will be the […]
