All Pawtucket All The Time

Robert P. Andrade
Pawtucket, RI – Robert P. Andrade, local businessman and community leader, was recently elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island. Mr. Andrade succeeds William J. Hunt, President of Shove Insurance Incorporated, who served in the role for three years.
President and CEO of Memorial Hospital Martin E. Tursky [...]

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David Ashley, MD
Pawtucket, RI –  Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island recently appointed David Ashley, MD, to its Medical Staff as the medical director of the Family Care Center.
A Saunderstown, RI resident and fluent in Spanish, Dr. Ashley earned his medical degree at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI. He completed a [...]

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Festival Organizers Announce Dates for 2012 Pawtucket Arts
 Kicks off on Friday, September 7, 2012
 PAWTUCKET, RI –  The Pawtucket Arts Festival will take place Friday, Sept. 7 through Sunday, Sept. 23 at various locations throughout Pawtucket showcasing performing and visual arts, music, photography, and ethnic cuisine. The announcement of this year’s dates is made by Festival [...]

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The Museum of Work & Culture to present the second Ranger Day Lecture Talk featuring Rhea Bouchard Powers’ “Rhea’s Random Reflections”
On Sunday, January 29, the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor Commission, in cooperation with the Museum of Work and Culture and the Rhode Island Historical Society, will present the second in [...]

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PAWTUCKET – The City of Pawtucket has issued rules for a snow ban parking advisory that will take effect in the event of a snowstorm, including a list of public parking locations where residents may leave their vehicles while on-street parking bans remain in effect.
“It’s been a mild winter so far but we need people [...]

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EARLY PICTURE OF MAIN STREET, CHEPACHET TAKEN OVER 100 YEARS AGO.  PHOTO COURTESY OF THE GLOCESTER HERITAGE SOCIETY.
On Sunday, January 15, 2012, the Museum of Work & Culture at 42 South Main Street, launches the first of this year’s Ranger Talks.  Begun in 1998, the program consists of  a series of six lectures and presentations [...]

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OPEN AUDITIONS
Calling all dancers 9 to 18!
The next audition for “Rhode Island’s Ballet Theatre” will be on Thursday, January 26 at 6pm at RI Ballet Arts Academy.
  Dancers must be interested in being part of a highly motivated group of young dancers.  The Company meets on Thursday at 6:30pm and performs several times a year. [...]

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PAWTUCKET— You Are Not Alone, a support group for people living with cancer and their caregivers, will meet at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. in The Cancer Center located on the ground floor of The Center for Primary Care.
            You Are [...]

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PAWTUCKET – Pawtucket-based Hasbro, Inc., long one of the city’s leading businesses, has assembled an eye-catching display in the City Hall lobby highlighting many of the toy-making giant’s landmark toys and games, from Monopoly and Scrabble to My Little Pony, Play-Doh and Transformers, among numerous others.
The display by Hasbro includes two large clear cases, an [...]

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From time to time – especially around Christmas time it seems – it actually is possible to get what you want. Since I began working on this project back in August, nothing has occupied my wishes quite as much as the Micro-Enterprise Grant Program. This program was begun almost three years ago with the intent [...]

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