PAWTUCKET – With the incoming winter months, the city of Pawtucket has provided rules for a snow ban parking advisory that will take effect in the event of a snowstorm, including a list of public parking locations where residents may leave their vehicles while on-street parking bans remain in effect.     “It is important for […]

Whitehouse Statement on Criminal Referrals from January 6th Select Committee   SHELDON WHITEHOUSE   Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement regarding the bipartisan House Select Committee’s criminal referral of former President Trump and several of his associates to the Department of Justice: […]

The Pawtucket Parks & Recreation Division Announces a Winter Recreation/Wellness Class Session     The Pawtucket Parks & Recreation Division has announced their lineup of recreational/wellness classes to be held at the Agnes Little Elementary and Jenks Junior High School for an eight-week session per class option, starting on the week of January 9.  Registrations […]

Voc-Tech Schools in MA Help Reduce Skills Gap     Kathryn Carley – Commonwealth News Servive   Educators say Massachusetts’s system of vocational-technical high schools could serve as a model for other states struggling with a critical shortage of skilled workers.   “Voc-tech” students in the Commonwealth typically spend their first year exploring up to […]

Changing How We Think About Our “Full Plate”   By Quint Studer QUINT   We live in complex, chaotic times, and it can feel like we’re busier than we’ve ever been before. Everybody’s got a full plate. When I speak to groups and ask, “Whose plate is chock-full right now?” 100 percent of the hands go […]

Board of Early Education and Care Gives Initial Approval to Regulation Changes That Will Make Child Care Easier for Families to Access     BOSTON — The Board of Early Education and Care today voted unanimously to give initial approval to a package of regulation changes that will improve the way low-income families access child care, […]

Looking good during the recruiting process   STEVE DUBAN   Our last PR Pointer talked about a prospect looking to improve it’s online reputation—AKA website, social media, etc.—to be more attractive to potential employees and retain current staff. Companies are not the only ones looking to look better as part of the recruiting process. So […]

THIE WEEK’S MUSE   RAVI SHANKAR     “I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it – that’s the duty of the music.”     Ravi Shankar was an Indian sitar player and composer. He became the […]