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Holiday Greetings from Our Troops: The Greens from Foxboro and Captain Paul Lemieux of Smithfield, Ri
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For ex-cons, job picture is never good
It's no secret that finding jobs in Rhode Island, a state with a 9.3-percent unemployment rate, has become extraordinarily difficult.
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Your Neighbors
A fifth-grade teacher in Providence plans to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa, next summer to raise money for cancer research and to honor her brother, Robert Esposito, who died of non-Hodgkin's ...
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Big Brothers hold annual Cash-Car raffle
Big Brothers of Rhode Island is now selling tickets for its 4th annual Cash-Car Raffle.
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Experienced pilots died doing what they loved
Investigators continue to work at the scene of a fatal plane crash Monday near North Central State Airport in Smithfield.
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Group hunts for specters of history
It's an austere icon of America's tortured history of witch hysteria. Its very name evokes this city's unending fascination with the occult.
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R.I.'s high unemployment means delays in processing claims
Rhode Island's high unemployment rate is resulting in delays in processing claims for unemployment benefits, the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training said today.
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2 killed in RI plane crash
Authorities say two people were killed when a small plane crashed a half-mile southeast of the runway at North Central State Airport in Smithfield.
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Body found in wake of Smithfield plane crash
A man's body was found this evening after a single-engine Piper PA-32 aircraft crashed late this afternoon about a half-mile southeast of runway 33 at North Central State Airport, according to a Federal ...
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Changing real estate market prompts creative ways to buy and sell
It's a buyer's market - if you're the right kind of buyer. As Rhode Island's house prices fall to their lowest level in five years, people are finding their dream houses on the market for tens of thousands of ...
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New Vietnamese In Smithfield, RI- Pho Evergreen
Wife and I were excited to try a new Vietnamese rest- Pho Evergreen in Smithfield, RI in rt 44 near intersection with Greenville Ave.
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New Web Site Launched: 'Message Through Time' Delivers Email Video...
A local entrepreneur today announced the launch of http://www.messagethroughtime.com, a Web site for people to send email video messages and greetings at a specified date and time in the future.
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N. Smithfield bans wood boilers
North Smithfield has become the first town in Rhode Island to ban wood boilers, a cheap source of heat that can leave thick clouds of smoke.
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Smithfield man earns high praise
At its annual meeting held recently at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Mass., The New England Wild Flower Society presented the Rhode Island State Award for Conserving Native Plants and Their Habitats to ...
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The fading of the GOP
The already tiny Republican presence in the General Assembly was crushed even smaller by a Barack Obama-led Democratic romp in the Ocean State Tuesday, diminishing the Grand Old Party by more than half in the ...
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Dish at the Diner in Providence
Come out to the debut of "DISH at THE DINER." The first in a series of "women's nights" will be held on Saturday, November 15 at The Liberty Elm Diner at 777 Elmwood Ave, Providence.
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Veterans' documentary screening at Bryant
You can get a head start on Veterans Day remembrances tomorrow with a free screening at Bryant University of the feature-length documentary Leave No Soldier, which tracks two generations of American war ...
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R.I. election digest
Two Town Council incumbents - including the panel's president - won reelection last night and staved off a scenario that worried them even more than defeat.
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Some ballots in Smithfield will be counted by hand due to a misprint.
Robert Kando, the executive director of the Rhode Island Board of Elections, said scanners at the town's seven polling locations were unable to read the outdated ballots, which had the name of a local candidate ...
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Voters to decide fate of local bond issues
By Wall Street standards, half a million dollars is pocket change. That's the amount Conservation Commission Chairman Roy P. Najecki is hoping local voters will approve Tuesday in a referendum proposing the ...
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