Providence Country Day School receives Champlin Grant for outdoor classroom
EAST PROVIDENCE — As the New England winter slowly thaws into spring, energy begins shifting to the outdoors. At The Providence Country Day School balls careen across the green lacrosse and baseball fields, students read on the lawn outside during free periods, and they plead with teachers to hold class outdoors. The latter creates a [...]
Read More →East Providence company among those approve for RIEDC energy funding
PROVIDENCE — The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC) Board of Directors Monday, April 22, approved $184,334 to seven companies in the first round of 2013 grant funding through the Renewable Energy Fund (REF). The projects support solar photovoltaic systems that will produce electricity in a cleaner, more sustainable manner and contribute to greener homes [...]
Read More →Barrington waterfront with a dock of your own
This lovely waterfront home at 35 Bourne Lane in Barrington, in the Adams Point neighborhood, enjoys amazing saltwater views out towards Narragansett Bay and across the Barrington River to Warren’s Jacobs Point and the protected Audubon property on the north end of Bristol. This new and magnificent home has four bedrooms with five bathrooms and [...]
Read More →Arthur D. Howell Jr., Portsmouth
Arthur D. Howell Jr. of Portsmouth passed away Friday, April 5, 2013, in the Grand Islander Health Care Center. He was the husband of Carolyn B. (Perkins) Howell. Born in Fall River, Mass., he was the son of the late Arthur D. and Jenny (Coggeshall) Howell. As a child, he grew up on the Glen [...]
Read More →Moira (Mallinson) D’Aquanno, Riverside
Moira (Mallinson) D’Aquanno, of Beaver Court, Riverside, died peacefully on April 21, 2013. She was the wife of the late Eugene J. D’Aquanno. Born in Manchester, England, a daughter of the late Leonard and Lillian (Taylor) Mallinson, she lived in Riverside for 57 years. Mrs. D’Aquanno was a communicant of St. Brendan Church. She was [...]
Read More →EPACC Pet of the Week: Trixie
EAST PROVIDENCE — Trixie is a beautiful brown female Pitbull available for adoption at the East Providence Animal Control Center. Trixie was wandering around East Providence last October. The city workers who found her called animal control to come help Trixie. She is approximately 2-3 years old and is in very good health. Trixie has [...]
Read More →Rhode Island’s unemployment rate drops to 9.1 percent in March
CRANSTON — The Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training announced Thursday, April 18, the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for March 2013 dropped to 9.1 percent, down three-tenths of a percentage point from the February 2013 rate and one and a half percentage points from the March 2012 rate. This represents the lowest unemployment [...]
Read More →Portsmouth woman receives Fulbright for cancer research in England
PORTSMOUTH — Eily Cournoyer had a tumor removed from her brain when she was a little girl. Thankfully, it was benign but the frightening experience changed her life. She was so grateful to the doctors who saved her she decided to devote herself to the medical field. Now the 21-year-old senior at the University of [...]
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