Governor Raimondo Highlights Success of Small Business Assistance Program ?? GINA RAIMONDO The state-backed loan fund has now supported 55 loans to small businesses throughout R.I. Governor Gina M. Raimondo and Rhode Island Secretary of Commerce Stefan Pryor joined with small business loan recipients, lending partners and community members at Sin bakery today to celebrate […]
Be Prepared for Hurricane Season Regardless of Prediction While hurricane experts predict a slightly less active Atlantic hurricane season, they maintain it’s important to be prepared since it only takes one catastrophic storm to cause widespread death and destruction. During last week’s 32nd annual Governor’s Hurricane Conference in West Palm Beach, weather experts from […]
Free Community Picnic Party &??Concert Saturday, June 2??12-5 pm WaterFire Arts Center ??475 Valley Street?? Providence, RI Come celebrate the last weekend of Ryan Mendoza???s The Rosa Parks House Project exhibition with a Community Picnic Party and Concert from 12pm-5pm.??Food is provided by Amos House.?? Special performances by Rose Weaver, Len Cabral and Valerie Tutson […]
Bass River Press Book Launch: DEIRDRE CALLANAN Deirdre Callanan Reads from Water-Dreaming; with Readings by Barry Sternlieb, Lucile Burt, and Lisa Starr Thursday, June 7, at 7pm. Come celebrate the launch of Water-Dreaming by Deirdre Grace Callanan, whose poems and essays have appeared in such periodicals as Beloit Poetry Journal, the Colorado Review, and Poet […]
HVAC PROJECT NEARING COMPLETION The Norton Public Library has been undergoing a major construction project to completely replace our outdated and inefficient HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) system to??better serve our patrons. The Library will close completely in June for the remainder of the project. Holds will be sent to??the Mansfield Public Library for […]
BBB Serving Eastern MA, ME, RI & VT The Small Business Administration???s Rhode Island District Office announced that they have signed a Strategic Alliance Memorandum with the Better Business Bureau Serving Eastern Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island & Vermont (BBB). Beginning in June, the agreement will allow the two entities to work together to offer free […]
GREAT OUTDOORS PURSUIT PROVIDENCE ??? The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) today announced the June schedule of events for the state???s popular Great Outdoors Pursuit.?? The public events include guided hikes, a fish hatchery tour, and free admission to the Audubon Nature Center and Aquarium. Events in June: Saturday, June 2, 9, 16, […]
BIRDS OF THE FIRST LIGHT??AND LONGHOUSES:??THE PRINTS OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON ?? Our long-awaited summer exhibition of over sixty Audubon prints opens this Friday, June 1st along with Alison Wells’s first solo, museum exhibition. From the Collection of the??New Bedford Free Public Library Curated by Louie Doherty June 1 – October 14, 2018 Reception: Friday, […]
