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Environment

Stormwater Runoff Now Getting City and Resident Focus
December 11, 2024
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This year, it has rained 55 inches in Providence so far, and with the projected rainfall in the remainder of December, the accumulated rainfall will equal 2023’s 58 inches.  Normal annual rainfall in Providence used to [...]

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Providence Hurricane Barrier  photo courtesy of WPRI

Providence Counts

Providence Water:  Below and Above Ground
December 11, 2024
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While Providence is known as the City of Seven Hills, it’s important to recognize that it is also a City of Seven Rivers.  Protecting those rivers and Narragansett Bay is tough in this era of drastically [...]

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Justice Gaines, a resident of south Providence, speaks at a community meeting on Rhode Island Recycled Metals on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (Nancy Lavin/Rhode Island Current)

Environment

South Providence Scrapyard Insists it is Cleaning Up Its Act. Residents Still Have Their Doubts
December 11, 2024
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The plumes of smoke soaring from a south Providence scrapyard five months ago have cleared. But frustration over the environmental and health consequences for those who live near Rhode Island Recycled Metals still burned brightly Tuesday [...]

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Letters to the Editor 12.04
December 4, 2024
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To the Editor, The bankruptcy of the Providence Place mall gives us a time for a radical rethink.  While many folks will look at housing, classrooms, or the like, what [...]

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Produce from PVD local farmers. Photo courtesy of Southside Community Land Trust (SCLT)

Environment

PVD’s Urban Farmers Are Feeding the City
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The term, ‘produce aggregation’ doesn’t really conjure up a picture of healthy kids and families and farmers bringing good food [...]

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Dec
RIDE Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green speaks to the press Nov. 22, 2024, at Providence Career and Technical Academy, discussing the finalized $15 million school funding settlement. (Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current)

Education

Providence to Pay $15M to Resolve School Funding Dispute with State
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The city of Providence will pay an additional $15 million to its public schools, staving off a budget crisis that [...]

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Nov
Scottish Highland Cattle roaming at Radical Roots Farm in Eastern Connecticut. Photo credit Radical Roots Farm, LLC.

Arts/Food/Culture

Radical Roots Farm Leans on the Past to Ensure a More Sustainable Future
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For the last few years, Radical Roots has been selling pasture-raised meat at farmers markets in Providence. In the summer, [...]

27
Nov

Neighborhoods

Preservation Awards Blending the Old and New
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I joined Providence Preservation Society as Executive Director last October and one thing that struck me as I was looking [...]

20
Nov
Ryan Praditkamollert in The Crypt photo: Daniel Morris

Arts/Food/Culture

Gaming in Providence Seeks Inclusion
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In the same decades when so many forms of entertainment went electric or digital, games played on tabletops, on boards, [...]

20
Nov

Arts/Food/Culture

Cultivating Community: How Hope + Main Empowers Providence’s Food Entrepreneurs
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Alison Mountford’s passion, not only for her work, but for Hope + Main’s mission and, most importantly, for its members, [...]

13
Nov

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