MIDDLETOWN, R.I. -- While learning a romance language, his students are also taught how to cook paella, dance Latin ballroom and appreciate the myths behind Spanish traditions.
As reported here several days ago, a rift has opened among the Rhode Island Tea Party leadership. Two of the conservative group's lead organizers, Colleen Conley and Nan Hayden, made it official Monday when they voted out the third member of the leadership - Marina Peterson.
"It was one, two, three," Peterson tells [...]
Snow is falling fast in the Providence area this morning, making the commute difficult and prompting school officials to postpone the start of the school day in many districts.
Check for delays or closings here.
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Remember those crazy casino style multi-billion dollar bets called credit derivatives and credit default swaps that AIG, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, etc. took out? The ones that guru investor Warren Buffet rightly called “weapons of mass financial destruction” because they brought our entire economy to the [...]
This is Part 2 of our survey of Food Editors' holiday cookie recipe choices. Here's Part 1.
Providence Journal Food Editor Gail Ciampa's personal bake-off has ended with a platter full of tested cookie recipes, far right: Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti, Pistachio Biscochitos,' [...]
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The ProJo has a very good comprehensive story on the Metro Transit Study which is to be officially released on Thursday. Really, it is a good story, the best, most balanced story on RIPTA I think I’ve ever [...]
MIT wins Defense Department balloon hunt, a test of social networking savvy. WaPo.
MIT Team Wins DARPA Network Challenge. Information Week:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers took less than nine hours to find 10 weather balloons that the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency had placed randomly [...]PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The official start of the 2010 legislative session is still a month away, but House budget writers will hold the first of a series of hearings next week on Governor Carcieri's as-yet unseen plan for plugging the state's $219 million budget hole.
Carcieri raised one recurring theme during [...]
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Nonprofit agencies in Rhode Island will get $1 million in stimulus money from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, officials said Monday.
The money will be used to help more than 40 organizations manage their agencies, find grant money and grow during an economic downturn, [...]
WOONSOCKET, R.I. -- Two men with masks, one of them armed with a hand gun, entered the Shell gas station on Social Street and struck the cashier in the head when he did not comply fast enough with their demands for money, according to the police.
The [...]
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- St. Mary Academy Bay View is closed for the day after school officials found a white powdery substance spread through a hallway early Monday morning.
The powder was found to be nontoxic, said Fire Marshal Capt. Oscar M. Elmasian, but its discovery by workers just after 6 [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Shotgun deer-hunting season is starting in Rhode Island, and state environmental officials are reminding people -- hunters or not -- to wear safety orange when going onto state management lands.
Saturday was the first day of the season on the mainland, and it runs through Jan. 2.
Hunters [...]
Who would have thought that Dethklok would be the first out of the gate this season with a Christmas special? They will apparently be picking ‘Secret Santas’ and arguing about the Christmas tree. And it would appear that Toki’s mother is visiting from [...]
In a Channel 12 story tonight prompted by coverage on this site, RIDOT claimed that work on Portsmouth's ailing Escape Bridge would begin next summer, contradicting an official communication the Town received this afternoon.
In a segment broadcast at 5:30, RIDOT Deputy Chief Design Engineering' [...]
After nearly two decades of service in Rhode Island government, Michael O'Keefe has decided to retire.
His title, House fiscal adviser, doesn't fully capture the responsibility and influence of the 65-year-old man known for his bow ties and dry humor. O'Keefe has influenced the state budget process perhaps more than any' [...]
Sure, email is great, but there's something uniquely heartwarming about the kind of card that comes in the actual mail -- especially for folks who don't hear from us as often as they should, simply because they aren't online.
So we've made it' [...]
