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On any given Saturday, Stacie Delos is likely getting her kids up and ready, driving one to soccer practice, cheering on the sidelines and squeezing in another game before the day is done. But De...
With the first day of school just around the corner, Citizens Bank has distributed 6,000 backpacks filled with new school supplies to children around the state. Last week, more than 1,600 of them...
Some people call it a “rite of summer.” Others will say it’s an institution unlike any other, as far as ethnic food, drink and entertainment are concerned. And for the past quarter century, the...
It was 10:45 on Sunday morning. Rain was coming down in buckets and the visibility was decreasing by the minute. Meanwhile, Christopher Martin, the corresponding secretary of the Johnston Histori...
The Rhode Island Blood Center and Cold Stone Creameries have teamed up to promote hope throughout Rhode Island. The “Hope” cake is being offered by the Cold Stone Creameries in support of blood don...
“Helping people. Changing lives.” Those were the words that appeared on the cover of the Tri-Town Community Action Agency’s GED graduation program last week. It was an appropriate sentiment f...
Picture this: two doctors perform the same surgery on two different patients. One doctor performs the procedure perfectly, and the patient goes home happy a few days later. The other doctor, ho...
Your neighbor may have a dog or a cat, or any other average household pet. Your neighbors probably aren’t the Silvas. Joe and Christin Silva have a robot living with them in a shed alongside ...
How about a game of nine-ball? Eight ball partners, perhaps? How’s business? All of those queries will be answered tonight when the North Central Chamber of Commerce presents its August Busines...
The Rhode Island Community Food Bank’s Summer Food Drive has entered its final stretch. With just four weeks remaining, the Food Bank is hoping for an additional push of donations that will help th...
Bus drivers, aides, and monitors ratified their first contract at the First Student Metro West statewide yard. The bus yard workers, which formed a union with 1199 New England SEIU in November, mov...
The Governor Sprague Mansion in Cranston was the setting last Saturday evening for the 16th Annual Homeless Animals’ Day and Candlelight Vigil. Dennis Tabella, director of Defenders of Animals,...
Elisha Dyer Camp 7 Rhode Island Dept. Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War in cooperation with the Cranston Historical Society will hold a Civil War Living History Encampment on the grounds of t...
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