After 16 years of service in the Ocean State, Resources for Human Development Rhode Island (RHD-RI) closed its doors at the end of last month. Compared to Rhode Island’s other developmental disability (DD) providers, it’s a small agency, serving approximately 120 clients and only providing daytime service. Its closure was the inevitable result of years […]
There was rain today that came in waves, the first a sun shower and the second gray.And I’m grateful, ‘cause now my dying plants is saved.At the window I rest my head, and soften my gaze over the hood — assess the lay of the land.A big red pickup parks, and out comes a man.Some […]
William Schaff is a Warren-based artist who has lent his talents to many endeavors, but is perhaps most well-known for his skulled-up faces (check out his signature style on the faces of Gina Raimondo and Allan Fung he illustrated for our October 2018 cover). His most recent project is the skulled-up face of Donald Trump […]
November 3 — so close, yet so far. But here are some earlier dates you should mark on your calendar. Rhode Island is mailing absentee ballot applications to every Rhode Island voter, and your local election office must receive your completed application by October 13 in order for you to mail in your vote. Early, […]
We talked to many of the local candidates running for public office in the upcoming 2020 election. We asked each of them the same set of questions, with the promise to print their answers only lightly edited for clarity. The following answers are from Scott Guthrie (D), running against incumbent George Nardone (R), for RI […]
We talked to many of the local candidates running for public office in the upcoming 2020 election. We asked each of them the same set of questions, with the promise to print their answers only lightly edited for clarity. The following answers are from Paul Roselli (D), running against incumbent Jennifer de la Cruz (R), […]
After opening in a mill building in Pawtucket in 2004, RHD-RI quickly became a beacon in the local arts community. Artists with developmental disabilities used the space to work on their pieces, write music and discuss ideas. Creativity ran rampant throughout each room. The organization moved to a second mill building in Pawtucket in 2014 […]
Governor Gina Raimondo, DOH director Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott and RIDE Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green gave the weekly COVID press briefing today at 1pm. Today’s data is as follows: There are 121 new cases of COVID-19 and 86 people are hospitalized. Nine are in intensive care units and five people are on ventilators. Hospitalizations are trending downward […]
Natalie Andrus Fleming is a school psychologist based at the Asa Messer Elementary school in Providence. On Wednesday, September 16, the third day after schools partially reopened in Providence, one of two cities in RI that were not approved for full in-person reopening due to high COVID-19 rates, Fleming said she was directed to stop […]
If you live in Providence, it may seem as though we’re always finding a reason to mourn. For what’s happening across the country, here in the state, and internally as we all grapple with a pandemic that is six months in with no signs of letting up. On Friday, we found another reason to mourn, […]