Saturday, July 4, 2026

TEN MILE RIVER WATERSHED RAMBLES

YOU MAY UNDERSTAND OUR WONDER BY DON DOUCETTE During recent weeks our family TV viewing in the evening includes a YouTube program entitled WORKING HORSES WITH JIM – favorite and nostalgic episodes about a farmer in upstate New York using two pair of draft horses to farm his land. Jim raises a mix of beefers […]

CUMBERLAND, RI: KELLEY LENNON

KELLEY HAS ADVANCED TO THE TOP 16! Thanks to all who voted!! Because of YOUR support I have made it to the Top 16! To allow some time for new music submissions, the next round of voting will be starting in a few days, so I will send the voting information once I have received it. Again, thank […]

MASSACHUSETTS’ PEACE ADVOCATES

MA Peace Advocates Lay Out Hopes for Future of N-Weapons Policy Lily Bohlke – Commonwealth News Service BOSTON — With a United Nations treaty banning nuclear weapons now in place, Massachusetts advocates for peace, including Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., are laying out their hopes for the future of nuclear-weapons policy. Not a single nation with nuclear weapons […]

PAWTUCKET, RI: GEORGE WILEY CENTER

Reminder: Help us celebrate our 40th anniversary! Photo Credit: “Valley Breeze” Celebrating 40 Years of the George Wiley Center “My name is Maya Wiley and I’m the proud daughter of George Alvin Wiley. And from me and my family, thank you, thank you, thank you, George Wiley Center for carrying on his legacy in his name. […]

EARTHTALK: ENVIRONMENTAL RULE CHANGES UNDO

EarthTalk® From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine   Some of the 11th hour environmental rule changes are easier to undo than others, but Joe Biden will take them one at a time. Credit: jlhervàs, FlickrCC.   Dear EarthTalk: What are some of the last minute changes the Trump administration has wrought that […]

NEW BEDFORD ARTS MUSEUM

FLUID STATES: NEW ENGLAND WAX/NEW ENGLAND WATERS OPEN NOW  January 21-March 14, 2021 We are proud to present Fluid States: New England Wax/New England Waters.  Themed around the fluidity seen in both wax and water in all forms, this exhibition explores the ecological richness and fragility of New England. Featuring fifteen artists affiliated with New England Wax , […]

MOTOR VEHICLE TAX BILLS BY LAST WEEK OF JANUARY

Motor Vehicle Taxes Can be Expected the Last Week of January PAWTUCKET – The City of Pawtucket has announced that residents should expect to receive their motor vehicle tax bills for Fiscal Year 2021 beginning Tuesday, January 26th. With the State’s budget passing in mid-December 2020 due to a pandemic-related delay, the City held off sending […]

RI GOP OP-ED

FRIAS ON LT. GOVERNOR VACANCY  In an opinion column, entitled “Save Rhode Island taxpayers a million dollars” published this week in the Cranston Herald , Warwick Beacon , and Johnston Sunrise , R.I. Republican National Committeeman Steven Frias calls for the impending vacancy in the office of lieutenant governor be left vacant so as to save taxpayers a million dollars, and […]