My name is Elizabeth Shepard. I am a 16-year-old sophomore attending Smithfield High School. This year, I am a candidate for Student of the Year; which is a program run by The Leukemia & Lymphoma...
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With the new City Council seated for several months, the opportunity to address this topic again surfaces – this time with a more socially equitable balance of council members that tend to blend into...
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Kudos to Lisa and Bob Sherman for donating their COVID stimulus money to a food bank! My husband and I did the same with both stimulus checks. I’m glad we are not alone in having thought of that. And...
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In one of his recent columns, titled “Is the middle to be found?,” Dan Yorke reflects on some of the ways that New Englanders, and Americans in general, can be needlessly extreme in our criticisms....
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A huge “Thank You” to the Cumberland firefighters and EMTs for saving my mother and her home from a fire on Super Bowl Sunday.
I am so grateful.
Joy Sullivan
Cumberland
The latest report on Lincoln’s Big Dig; aka LHS renovation project is not good, but Lincoln taxpayers have come to expect nothing less. School Committee members in the past have made comments such as...
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Will you join us? Keep Blackstone Valley Beautiful is asking everyone to take action to end litter as Earth Day approaches in April, and now is the time to plan how you will participate.
Taking...
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This February, we celebrate Black achievements, history, and leadership. We look to Rhode Island’s Black history and heroes like the United States’ first Black battalion in military history – 1st...
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