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Jamestown teens get ready to unveil mural
Jamestown Press
Jan 26The Jamestown Teen Center will unveil the mural that it has been creating with Rhode Island School of Design graduate Donna O’Neill on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 7 p.m. at the recreation center. Teen participants, along with O’Neill, an experienced mural art... »
African band to play tonight at rec center
Jamestown Press
Jan 26Obuamah Laud Addy, along with the band Norchemi, will perform at the Jamestown Recreation Center on Thursday, Jan. 26, from 6 to 7 p.m.read more »
Accepting Apllications
Jamestown Press
Jan 26The Melrose Avenue Preschool is currently accepting applications for the 2012-13 school year. All children applying to the preschool must first be screened through the Jamestown Child Outreach Program. Once the application is filed with the child outre... »
February book group to discuss ‘Oscar Wao’
Jamestown Press
Jan 26The Jamestown Philomenian Library’s book group will read Junot Diaz’s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” for next month’s discussion on Feb. 21.read more »
Ad hoc panel looking for solutions on how to combat tick-infested wildlife
Jamestown Press
Jan 26BY KEN SHANE As recently as 1986 the deer population on Conanicut Island was negligible, as was the incidence of Lyme disease among Jamestown’s human residents. All of that has changed however. In just 25 years, the deer population has increased to abo... »
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This Week at the General Assembly
RI Future
Jan 20A highlight and discussion of some of the notable pieces of legislation going through the General Assembly this week. Education aid advance bill passes Assembly, becomes law - The General Assembly approved and the governor signed legislation requested ... »
Chafee announces appointees to study panel on local pensions
WRNI Politics Blog
Jan 13Following picks earlier this week by Senate President M. Teresa Paiva-Weed and House Speaker Gordon Fox, Governor Lincoln Chafee has made his appointments to an upcoming study panel on local pensions. That fills out the slate as follows: Governor’s app... »
update on possible bike projects for TIP
Bike Providence
Dec 27Some preliminary results from a Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) subcommittee meeting on bike/ped projects submitted for the next 4 year Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) that RIDOT tentatively allocated about $3.4 million/year. Projects... »
13 local pension plans worse than RI’s; Cranston, Scituate lag
WPRI.com Blogs
Dec 05Just one of the 24 cities and towns in Rhode Island with a locally run pension plan has funded it adequately, a WPRI.com analysis shows. »
2013-2016 TIP Proposed Bicycle Projects
Bike Providence
Dec 01The Transportation Advisory Committee has received submissions of projects from RIDOT from cities and towns, and some agencies for the 2013-2016 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). The news for bicycle users is that it could have been a lot wor... »

