East Providence

News Briefs

School Budget $3.8M Deficit Looming At last month’s School Committee meeting, new East Providence Superintendent of Schools Rob Perry described a school budget deficit that has been projected to …

Rehoboth

From the Town Clerk's Office

Hello All ~ Happy Fall !! I’m looking forward to the beautiful weather in Rehoboth; should be coming soon! Speaking of the Fall, I would like to remind all town residents that Town Offices …

Seekonk

Osamequin Farm and Country Carpenters Celebrate the Rebuilding of Hickory Grove

SEEKONK, MA — Osamequin Farm and Country Carpenters invite the community to a Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday, September 12, from 4 - 6pm, marking the completion of the Hickory Grove rebuild …

Classifieds

HELP WANTED

Seekonk Flea Market at the Seekonk Speedway is looking for someone to direct traffic, male preferred, every Sunday between now and December 7th, 7am-12pm, Call Linda at 401-263-5737.

CLEANING SERVICES

CM Cleaning Services Residential/Office:Weekly, biweekly, monthly ,post-construction. Free estimates, good references, affordable rates. Please call/text Marilyn 401-497-8770.

Statement of Interest, Notice of Claim & Acknowledge and Acceptance

https://shorturl.at/MZ6H3 Providence, Rhode Island April 9th See link for details of contact for our registry!

JUNK REMOVAL

BIG BLUE REMOVAL SERVICE: Attic, Cellar, Total House. We take everything! Furniture, Brush, Appliances, Yard Waste, Construction Debris, Trash…Demolition of Fences, Sheds, Decks, Pools. Let us …

Harvest for Heroes: Family Fun With a Meaningful Mission

This October, Poppy’s Crew invites the Rehoboth community to come together for Harvest for Heroes, a family fundraiser benefiting Wreaths Across America and our mission to remember and honor local veterans.

News & Notes from the Blanding Library

Annual Book Sale Oct. 9-11 We hope to see you at the Blanding’s annual used book sale and raffle this year, a three-day event sponsored by the Friends of the Blanding Library. Hours: …

October Adult Events at the East Providence Public Libraries

Fuller Creative Learning Center: • Charity Sewing - Tuesdays in October 12:30-3pm • Halloween Greeting Card - Thursday, October 1 6-7pm • Dungeons and Dragons*: The Keep on the Borderlands - …

Women’s A Cappella Chorus Invites Female Singers To Participate In Holiday Show

Harmony Heritage Chorus, the Pawtucket, RI chapter of Harmony, Incorporated, an international organization of female a cappella singers specializing in the barbershop harmony style, is inviting female singers of all ages and musical backgrounds to sing with them as guest singers in a special holiday concert to be held at the LaSalette Shrine auditorium in Attleboro, MA.

Rhode Island

RI Health and Human Services head to replace Roger Williams, Fatima hospitals CEO

In November, Rhode Island Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Charest’s covert courtship of another hospital buyer for Roger Williams Medical Center and Our Lady of Fatima Hospital drew a strong rebuke from the head of the nonprofit already approved to buy the hospitals. Eleven months later, with the sale to The Centurion Foundation complete, […]

State auditors find widespread compliance failures in opioid treatment oversight

A recent state audit of 100 Medicaid claims over a two-year period by all five opioid treatment providers that billed Rhode Island Medicaid during that period found at least one problem with every single claim. But the state agency that oversees these providers failed to flag these problems consistently, despite visiting facilities every other year, […]

New resiliency center offers free trauma support for those affected by Brown and Pawtucket shootings

Healing takes time. For Chris Librizzi, the process remains ongoing nearly eight months after a gunman opened fire during a high school hockey game he was coaching at a Pawtucket rink, killing three people, including the shooter. Even after his Blackstone Valley Co-op hockey team won the state championship in March, Librizzi struggled with sleep […]

MAGA candidate Elaine Pelino backs independent Ken Block for governor

Five weeks after narrowly losing the Republican gubernatorial primary, Elaine Pelino is urging her supporters to cross party lines and vote for independent Ken Block in the Nov. 3 general election. The support from Pelino, who initially suggested she did not intend to make a public endorsement after the primary, comes amid pressure for GOP […]

Senators decry ‘disastrous,’ ‘flabbergasting’ Census changes

The change, if implemented, would “dramatically and inaccurately favor southern states where many northern residents, sometimes called snowbirds, spend some or all of the months of December through March, despite spending a majority of their time voting in and paying taxes to northern states like Massachusetts," Jessie Partride Guerrero, director of data services at the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, testified.