Manager for a day
Have you ever wanted to be a major league manager? I have. I can imagine sitting on my perch in the dugout, gnawing on Swedish Fish (I’m not a gum chewer) and telling guys to “find a pitch you can hit” and “hustle” and then patting them on the rear when they return. Of course [...]
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East Bay Anglers to hold used tackle sale The East Bay Anglers fishing club will run a used fishing tackle sale on Saturday, March 30 at the Riverside Sportsman’s Club on Mohawk Drive – just off the Wampanoag Trail in East Providence. According to Matt Newell, Club president, “Last year’s pioneering event was so well [...]
Read More →Down to Earth: Hope Springs In March
I am desperate to get back out in the garden. This time last year I lamented about not getting a proper winter break. This year, the opposite. Maybe gardeners are never content. But I’m pretty sure that nothing would make me happier right now than to spend one non-rainy, non-snowy, calm-wind weekend day outside. I [...]
Read More →Gun-control legislation is a diversion from real problems facing state, nation
From the local level to the federal government, our supposed public servants are in a frenzied mood on how best to intimidate, control, demonize and enforce draconian gun control measures. What better way to take the public’s mind off the sorry affairs of this state and country than to spin apoplectic mantra about the evils [...]
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Commercial fishing license renewal Licenses may be renewed online through April 29 via DEM’s website, www.dem.ri.gov. License holders are reminded that prior to license renewal, all logbooks must be up to date with DEM’s Marine Fisheries Program located at 3 Fort Wetherill Road in Jamestown. For questions concerning the log books, call the Marine Fisheries [...]
Read More →The Oscar goes to the President and Congress!
What do President Obama, Senators Jack Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, Representatives James Langevin, and David Cicilline, and the rest of the Senators and Representatives in Washington have in common with you? That’s right! Absolutely nothing! These vagabonds should all be impeached! Who needs them? They do absolutely nothing but grandstand, while getting paid big bucks [...]
Read More →Lessons from the Blizzard of 2013
Winter is not supposed to be easy. It’s meant to test the fortitude of gardeners and plants just as spring, summer, and fall do. This winter more than most perhaps. As I write this most of my garden is still under a thick clot of snow and I feel extra silly for ever sulking about [...]
Read More →Tockwotton can serve as a beacon for East Providence Waterfront
In many ways the recent grand opening of Tockwotton on the Waterfront serves as a pivotal moment for East Providence. Originally announced in 2004, this facility was among one of the initial projects intended for construction within the City’s newly formed Waterfront District. Fortunately, the officials of Tockwotton shared our vision of capitalizing on this [...]
Read More →A Team to be Named Later
In the winter of 1933, Bruce Sundlun and John Chafee were at Camp Yawgoog and playing with a group of boys on a frozen pond. Suddenly the ice broke and Bruce plunged through into the frigid water. All of the boys—except for John Chafee—ran off the pond to get help. Chafee, “doing exactly the right [...]
Read More →Who in Rhode Island has never owned a Cross Pen?
The oldest manufacturer of writing instruments in the country was started by Richard Cross in 1846 in Providence. The company was passed to his son Alonzo Townsend Cross, thus the name, A.T. Cross. Cross started out not as a pen company, but as a manufacturer of beautiful silver and gold casings for wooden pencils. Fountain [...]
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