Celebrating with Pride! By Amy Rhilinger on June 4, 2025 in Community, Displays Pride Month offers the chance to learn more about the contributions of LGBTQ+ authors, inventors, and entertainers throughout history. The library wants everyone who visits the building to see themselves in library collections, programming, and services. We see you, and we appreciate you. Here is what YOUR library has planned to celebrate this […]
House cannabis bill would increase the license cap from three to six THREE STORES TO SIX STORES Cannabis Control commissioner Kimberly Roy. THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE unanimously passed a wide-ranging cannabis bill on June 4 that would allow a single business to own double the number of dispensaries currently allowed by law. But the cannabis industry remains […]
Providence, Rhode Island – The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) is inviting high schools and youth-serving organizations to participate in a special Summer Youth Pass Pilot Program aimed at keeping high school students connected to essential resources and opportunities this summer. RIPTA Launches Summer Youth Pass Pilot Program Fully Funded by Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative […]
Dear Pawtucket Residents, Mark your calendars! The City of Pawtucket is thrilled to announce a first-ever Fourth of July collaboration with Rhode Island FC—and we’re moving the fireworks show to Friday, July 5, to celebrate together at Centreville Bank Stadium! This exciting evening will feature all the hometown pride and family fun you expect from […]
WORKSHOP TRAINING TIPS How to Write Emails that Get Read The emails you send compete against hundreds of other messages for your recipient’s attention. How to Write Emails that Get Read is an email writing workshop for non-writers that shares practices from Smart Brevity, the best-selling book and new writing style, to ensure more opens and responses. Why […]
Tomaquag Museum June 25 Children’s Hour! Wednesday, June 25, 2025 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM Tomaquag Museum Pavillion (map) Join us every Wednesday starting June 25th through August 13th from 10 AM to 11 AM. Our topic for this year will be The Preservation of History This year we will explore how Indigenous history is preserved through frybread and […]
Argentine Tango Series Presented By: Flamenco Worcester Dance is the hidden language of the soul.” Martha Graham About Flamenco Worcester… Argentine tango is a musical genre and accompanying social dance originating at the end of the 19th century in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Its lyrics are marked by nostalgia, sadness, and laments for lost […]
As we mark Juneteenth, don’t let Trump’s cuts to vital cultural institutions whitewash history As a descendant of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, I consider the Museum of African American History a sacred space by Garth Griffin The African American History Museum on Beacon Hill. (Courtesy of Museum of African American History) I GREW UP under the unflinching […]
