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Community Focus: US Lighthouse Society President Henry Gonzalez
There are more than 20 lighthouses in Rhode Island. On Friday, United States Lighthouse Society President Henry Gonzalez visited some of those lighthouses and joined 12 News at 4 to share more about the nonprofit's work.
Opinion: Of pigeons, plovers and the comeback of the turkey
The recent USA Today special edition “Paradise Lost” (Sunday Journal, Sept. 22) laments the loss or decline of America’s bird population. Rhode Island has shared in this avian attrition, the most notable example of which was the eradication of the passenger pigeon. The passenger pigeon was more abundant than any American mammal or...
Get to know Journal reporter Antonia Noori Farzan
Antonia Noori Farzan is a Rhode Island native who joined The Providence Journal in 2021. She previously worked at The Washington Post and, before that, spent several years at alt-weeklies in Arizona and Florida. Antonia is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and Hamilton College. She is a past winner of the George Polk Award and also received a blue ribbon in the agriculture division at the Washington County Fair. In this week's...
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