Tuesday, November 10, 2026

NEW ENGLAND’S OLD STONE WALLS

AGU: NY & New England’s old stone walls record history of Earth’s magnetic wanderings (+video) Under the forests of New York and New England, a hidden tracery of tumbledown stone walls marks the boundaries of early American farms, long abandoned for city jobs and less stony pastures in the West.   Some old walls record […]

SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST SCHOOL

CATHOLIC ATHLETIC LEAGUE CHAMPS The St. John the Evangelist School Fifth/Sixth Grade Boys and Sixth Grade Girls Basketball teams recently won the Fall River Diocese Catholic Athletic League Junior Division Championships. They play for the New England CYO Championship title in Manchester, NH Saturday, March 30. The Fifth/Sixth grade boys are coached by Mark Langelier, […]

EAST PROVIDENCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND

25TH ANNUAL PHONE-A-THON TO FUND SCHOLARSHIPS Scholarship Foundation of East Providence will sponsor its 25 th consecutive citywide phone-a-thon on March 12 and 13, 2019. East Providence High School students, past scholarship recipients and their families, EPHS alumni and Scholarship Foundation volunteers will be calling East Providence residents between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. on those dates. Hosting the […]

WHERE DEPARTMENT STORES WENT?

March 10th North Attleborough Historical Society Meeting    The North Attleborough Historical Society will hold its next meeting on Sunday, March 10th at 2 PM at the Little Red Schoolhouse. The Society invites you to join them for a talk by Jan Whitaker about department stores. Jan is the author of two books on the […]

PLAINVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY VOX GRANT

Friends of the Plainville Public Library, Inc.   VOX Books   The Friends of the Plainville Public Library, Inc. have just been awarded a grant from the Mansfield Bank Charitable Foundation for $2,891 to purchase a starter collection of VOX Books for our children’s room.   VOX Books are fiction and nonfiction titles with a […]

“BONJOUR PRINTEMPS”

Celebrating Franco-American Culture With Music, Film, & RI Poutine Competition (WOONSOCKET, R.I.) – The Museum of Work & Culture’s 20th annual Salute to Spring/Bonjour Printemps event will take place on Sunday, March 24, at 1:30 pm, and will celebrate Franco-American culture.  The day will include the MoWC’s eagerly anticipated 3rd Annual Poutine Indulgence. Restaurants and food […]

STYLUS PHANTASTICUS

Stylus Phantasticus 17th-Century Music at the Habsburg Court Sunday, March 17, 3:30 pm  First Unitarian Church  at Benefit & Benevolent St., Providence, RI Come enjoy our wonderful Sunday afternoon concert series followed by wine and cheese get-togethers with the artists and music lovers! Tickets can be purchased at the door* — many good seats available! $25 general seating, $8 students/low-income  For more […]

LTE: CHOCOLATE LOVER’S STROLL

Letter of Thanks:   This letter of thanks goes to the twenty-eight merchants and 122 ticket buyers who participated in the 23rd annual Chocolate Lover’s Stroll in downtown North Attleborough on February 9th. If only we could have predicted the cold weather!   First a HUGE thank you to Dyer-Lake Funeral Home – our only […]