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Many years ago, I was driving my mini-van full of children, my own two and a few extra foster blessings, on our way to Roger Williams Zoo. It was supposed to be a fun day of lions, monkeys, and …
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6/11/25
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At Highland Memorial Park Cemetery in Johnston, the members of Rhode Island’s most musical family lay at rest. The Zackarians – better known as ‘the Zacks’ – took …
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6/11/25
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Rhode Island Music Hall of Famer and rock legend Mark Cutler, Cranston native, is always up to something. He’s usually playing around the area with his band the Men of Great Courage at various …
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By ROB DUGUAY
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6/11/25
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The best moments in a show are when there is a collaboration between the performer and the audience. A call-and-response moves to a whole new level when hundreds of people are taking part in it, and …
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By ROB DUGUAY
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6/11/25
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Getting older is a natural part of life.
As I have aged, I have mellowed out, which has lowered my stress level and made these later years more enjoyable. While I was never a fashionista, I no …
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6/4/25
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Griffith’s Grove, located between the Burrillville villages of Pascoag and Harrisville, was the setting for hundreds of 19th-century festivities. From old-fashioned clambakes to balloon …
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6/4/25
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When we look back, 50 years can feel like the blink of an eye, but in the moment, every year, every season, seemed to unfold slowly, with all its highs and lows. It may feel like 1975 was “just …
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5/28/25
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Club Bagdad was known as Rhode Island’s “smartest supper club” according to its advertisements. The facility, located in the Lakewood village of Warwick, once hosted banquets, …
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5/28/25
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Reverend Raymond Walker resigned his pastorate at the Graniteville Baptist Church in Johnston in 1909. Soon after he would be residing at the RI State Hospital for the Insane.
Born in England in …
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5/21/25
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Redundancy is an eternal enemy of creativity. No artist or entity wants to make a rehashing of something else. there’s always a desire to make something fresh and new.
Enter the Providence …
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5/21/25
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I have always loved Memorial Day. When I was a child, my mom, brother, and I would walk to the end of our street to watch the Memorial Day parade, which used to end with a ceremony at Warwick …
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5/21/25
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The mystery of how hail is formed had completely eluded me. How can chunks of ice the size of a quarter, or larger, manage to fall out of the sky?
It seems downright ridiculous that frozen …
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5/14/25
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Most pass by a cemetery and acknowledge nothing more than a sea of stones. Most don’t consider the fact that beneath every stone is a story. In St. Ann’s Cemetery in Cranston, there are …
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5/14/25
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As a mom, I carry a thousand worries in my heart about my adult children’s well-being, their choices, and their future. I still show up every day with love, strength, and hope, because that is …
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5/7/25
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Giving myself a cursory look in the mirror this morning, I had a hard time finding my eyelashes. Putting my glasses on, I squinted, leaned in, turned my head side to side under the light and still …
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4/30/25
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George Thomas Taylor of Johnston began his milk delivery route when he was 16 years old. In the decades that followed, he gained a great number of devoted customers and friends. Each day, he’d …
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4/30/25
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Earth Day is celebrated annually on April 22, but the spirit of the day can continue every day. The day serves as a reminder that our planet needs kindness and care. While I may be just a tiny speck …
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4/23/25
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Jimmy Gardiner twisted and turned in his Rhode Island jail cell. It had been hours since he’d had access to cocaine, and he was becoming so sick that a doctor had to be called in. Ironically, …
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4/23/25
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Easter was always one of my favorite times of the year. I got such a kick out of stuffing plastic eggs with little Tootsie Rolls, Hershey’s Kisses wrapped in bright Easter colors, and a few …
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4/16/25
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Early in October 1929, Louis LeClair arrived in New York. The U.S. Veterans Bureau Hospital, in Northport, was hiring wardens and he visited the facility and asked for a job application. In the space …
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4/16/25
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