It is seven hours before the first pitch at Fenway Park, but the batting cage for pre-game warm-ups is already in place and ready to go. Pitching coach Chili Davis and his assistant Victor Rodriguez will work with Red Sox hitters later this afternoon, but right now their full attention is on players from the […]
There is no sign for those driving by, no indication there is a business just behind the tree line off Weaver Hill Road in West Greenwich. But anybody who has lived in town for any length of time knows if they need a hard-to-get part for their car or truck, there’s a pretty good chance they […]
Nearly everywhere you look, there is water. With the Newport Bridge to the west, Fort Adams to the south and Newport Harbor to the east, the condominiums on Goat Island South have been a select slice of Rhode Island real estate since the late 1980s, after condos went up on land formerly owned by The U.S. […]
Editor’s note: The Hummel Report’s mid-year update has new information on a handful of previous investigations. Uneasy Adjustment — In April we profiled Larry Rzepecki of Pawtucket, who was charged more than $200 by National Grid after he left the utility to start receiving his electricity from American Power. The Grid called the charges a […]
It was a busy and productive weekend last month as dozens of volunteers fanned out across the southern part of RI to tackle construction projects that the owners of nine homes could not afford to do themselves. Neighbors Helping Neighbors RI is the outgrowth of a Faith in Action group based out of St. Andrew Lutheran […]
That bitterly cold first day of the Raimondo Administration in early January seems like a very long long time ago. In her first five months, Governor Gina Raimondo has crisscrossed the state with a focused message that we heard repeatedly during the campaign: bring jobs back to Rhode Island and make the state business-friendly. In a […]
The half dozen young people gathered at a community center in Woonsocket got something last month that many never had when going through school: a financial coaching session. Leading them step-by-step is Rachel Wall, Director of Coaching for The Capital Good Fund in Providence, a non-profit organization that over the past six years has helped […]
The two-story brick building looks like a fortress — and it’s built like one. In fact, the old Bishop McVinney School was designated by the city of Providence as a nuclear fallout shelter in the 1960s. Constructed more than 75 years ago in the shadows of the Cranston Street Armory, the building was home to […]
The dozen girls and boys who have gathered around a set of tables for an evening workshop don’t know it yet, but the masks they create over the next 90 minutes will help many of them work through issues they are facing: maybe problems at home, or school or with friends. And they will share […]
Five months after readily admitting she had hired her son for a part-time summer job with the city, Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt conceded that was a violation of the nepotism clause in the state’s ethics code. And to settle a complaint filed with the commission the day after a Hummel Report investigation first aired in […]