National Garden Clubs Inc. Announces 2012 Award of Excellence Winners - STLtoday.com

National Garden Clubs Inc. Announces 2012 Award of Excellence Winners
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The winners, who were recognized at NGC's annual convention May 19 in Buffalo, NY, include Southside Community Land Trust of Providence, RI, Strange's Florists, Greenhouses and Garden Centers of Richmond, Va., and Shane Smith of Cheyenne, Wyo.

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Dan Lawlor: Too Many Left Out of RI's 'Growth' - GoLocalProv

Dan Lawlor: Too Many Left Out of RI's 'Growth'
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School buildings in the West End and South Side (and South County) are dilapidated. Wages stagnate or decline. Despite the overall decent economy in the Boston-area, jobs are not increasing around here. Our unemployment levels echo the post-industrial ...

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Providence Mayor Moves Financial Woes to Fore - New York Times

Providence Mayor Moves Financial Woes to Fore
New York Times
PROVIDENCE, RI — Mayor Angel Taveras had been in office for two months last year when he announced that this capital city was in dire financial shape — not the Category 3 hurricane he had expected, he said at the time, but a full-on Category 5.

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Any Deepwater Wind competitors must step forward - RenewablesBiz

Any Deepwater Wind competitors must step forward
RenewablesBiz
Deepwater Wind proposes to construct a 34.5-kV submerged transmission cable between Block Island and the Rhode Island mainland. The developers propose to connect to an existing substation on the mainland in South Kingstown, RI The line would transmit ...

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BASEBALL: AHS rallies way into MIAA Tournament - Attleboro Sun Chronicle

BASEBALL: AHS rallies way into MIAA Tournament
Attleboro Sun Chronicle
The University of Rhode Island-bound Olmo clubbed three hits, including a two-run double in a five-run sixth inning rally, then plated the game-winning run with an RBI-double with one out in the seventh inning. More importantly, the Bombardiers ...

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Swing Voters and Elastic States - New York Times (blog)

Swing Voters and Elastic States
New York Times (blog)
Rhode Island is not a swing state, but it has quite a lot of swing voters. The concept I'm getting at here is a pretty basic one, although it is sometimes hard to explain because the term “swing” is applied in such a wide variety of different ways to ...

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Douse of Knowledge - SLAM Online

Douse of Knowledge
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by Jeremy Bauman / @JBauman13 I first met Kiefer Douse (Lee Academy, ME), a combo-guard who hails from Toronto, Canada, at the Hoop Group Jam Fest in Providence, RI. Though this story was initially supposed to drop on the Hoop Groups website, ...

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RIEDC Director Keith Stokes Will Unveil Plaque … 2:09 pm - Providence Business News

RIEDC Director Keith Stokes Will Unveil Plaque … 2:09 pm
Providence Business News
May 10, 2012 [Providence] Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC) Executive Director Keith W. Stokes will unveil a historic plaque to honor the late African American soprano Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, once the highest paid and most ...
Black opera singer being honored in RI WLNE-TV (ABC6)

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When planets and talent align - Sydney Morning Herald


Sydney Morning Herald
When planets and talent align
Sydney Morning Herald
Muhly was born in Vermont and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, where he became a boy chorister and discovered a profound connection with church music and liturgical ritual. His mother, Bunny Harvey, is a visual artist and academic, and his father ...

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RI council reverses course, allows Matunuck wall - Boston.com

RI council reverses course, allows Matunuck wall
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SOUTH KINGSTOWN, RI—The state Coastal Resources Management Council has reversed an earlier decision and is now allowing South Kingstown to build a retaining wall along Matunuck Beach Road to protect it from beach erosion. The Providence Journal ...
CRMC to allow retaining wall along Matunuck Beach Road The Providence Journal

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