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Connecticut In Color: Venture Farming Institute seeks to grow Connecticut's BIPOC farmers
A farming education program here in Connecticut is assisting Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) who are farmers just breaking into the profession. It’s in its second year and those associated with it say it's moving the needle in diversifying the field of farming in Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Popular NJ supermarket will stop selling cigarettes
🚬 A popular grocery chain will stop selling tobacco products permanently. 🚬 The goal is to help customers and staff make better health choices. As of Aug. 31, Stop & Shop will stop selling all cigarettes and tobacco products at its 360 stores. The grocery chain announced it...
ConCon Commission’s report is done. Now it’s up to the voters.
After a little over a month of collecting testimony, the bipartisan commission needed just 26 minutes to review and approve its report weighing the pros and cons of Rhode Island holding a constitutional convention. “I thought it was a good, concise evaluation of what was presented in testimony and reflective of our charge,” Rep. Arthur […]
School transportation study group gets off to slow start
How should Rhode Island’s K-12 students get to school? The question is pressing enough that in the most recent legislative session, the House and Senate approved a joint resolution to form a special commission to study school transportation in the Ocean State. But at the new commission’s first meeting on Wednesday, the senator who helped […]
RI's shellfishermen face another hurdle
Good morning, I'm Will Richmond at The Providence Journal and this is the Daily Briefing. When my brother-in-law and his family visited this summer from Iowa one of the things he wanted to do was walk along the docks in Newport to find the largest yachts. For some reason, the shorter trip to Galilee to view the fishing boats wasn't on his list. ...
Rhode Island State Police nab four in overnight arrests
PROVIDENCE — Troopers from the Lincoln Woods Barracks arrested four individuals on various charges late Saturday and early Sunday after separate motor vehicle stops in different cities. At 5:08 p.m., Jayden Cortez, 24, of Coventry, was taken into custody for a Kent County Superior Court warrant related to a...
RI lawmakers conclude final constitutional convention report
There's no way around it: Question 1 asking voters whether Rhode Island should hold a constitutional convention is likely to cause a fair amount of head scratching at the polls this November. The obscure process for recommending changes to the state's foundational text − which no one has participated in since 1986 − is difficult to explain in a documentary, let alone a couple of sentences on a crowded presidential-year ballot. ...
‘The Voice’ Star Billy Gilman Marries Boyfriend Anthony Carbone
Singer Billy Gilman married his partner Anthony Carbone over the weekend in Rhode Island. The one-time runner-up on The Voice chose a large horse farm to host more than 100 friends and family for the Aug. 23 ceremony. The couple started dating in late 2022 and became engaged 11 months...
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