All Pawtucket All The Time

PAWTUCKET- Ceremonies for the 45th graduation of the Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island School of Nurse Anesthesia Program took place on October 24 in the hospital’s Medical Staff Auditorium. Hospital administration, staff, family and friends were on hand to honor the nine graduates.
This year’s graduates are: Rhonda Brassil of Lowell, MA; David Dawson of Cumberland, [...]

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Bank Rhode Island employees recently celebrated the one year anniversary of the 3,230 square foot branch opening on Smithfield Avenue in Pawtucket. Sharing some cake are (pictured, from left) Branch Manager Ida Jobe, along with branch colleagues Ashley Saldarriaga, Kristen Free, and Jessica Beausoleil.  
 
BankRI last week reported $2.32 million in net income for the [...]

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 By Dawn P. Goff – October 15th was a great day for all the homeless animals of Pawtucket.  Since Slater Park is Minnie’s favorite place, we decided we couldn’t miss Mayor Doyle and Animal Control Officer John Holmes cut the ribbon to the new state of the arts Animal Shelter located in Slater Park.
Both   Mayor [...]

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Save The Bay celebrates the completion of Phase 1 of the Combined Sewage Overflow (CSO) project with a dinner and dance/concert featuring Los Angeles-based The English Beat. Dinner, desserts and open bar. Opening band, Providence’s The Cobra-Matics. The “tunnel” experience created stylishly inside the newly restored Sharpe Building at Providence’s The Foundry. Proceeds benefit Save [...]

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The Community Players will open their 88th season with the Tony-award winning musical, Gypsy. With a score by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Arthur Laurents, Gypsy is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of burlesque queen Gypsy Rose Lee, and is based on her mother, Rose, whose name has become synonymous [...]

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ALL ABOARD THE POLAR EXPRESS!

Make reservations NOW for popular family fun event!
Tickets still available!
It’s not too late to get a jump start on celebrating the upcoming festive Holiday Season in Southern New England’s historic Blackstone River Valley.
Get ready for an exciting family fun journey to the “North Pole” as the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council (BVTC) [...]

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Oct. 24, 2008                                 
Mayoral candidate and City Councilor Don Grebien announced today that, if elected on Nov. 4, upon taking office he would immediately institute a 25 percent medical co-pay share for non-classified members of his administration and non-union classified personnel.
Grebien said the changes are within the mayor’s authority over the appointive jobs, which are not [...]

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Wednesday October 22, 2008
Grebien announces 8-point plan to address
local fallout from foreclosure/abandoned housing crisis

PAWTUCKET – Concerned that the local fallout from the ongoing foreclosed and abandoned housing crisis is not being systematically addressed in the city, City Councilor-at-large and mayoral candidate Don Grebien today announced an 8-point plan to protect foreclosed and abandoned properties, and [...]

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Sen. Joseph A. Montalbano, a Democrat representing District 17, is committed to economic development and looks forward to continuing to build upon efforts to grow jobs in Rhode Island.
“Now more than ever it is vital that we make smart policy decisions and investments in order to grow jobs in Rhode Island,” said Sen. Montalbano. “One [...]

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