WOONSOCKET – Prime Restoration & Remediation, a Lincoln-based company currently headquartered at 26 Albion Road, has purchased the former Jeweled Cross building on Park East Drive in Woonsocket...
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By LAUREN CLEM, Valley Breeze Staff Writer
WOONSOCKET – The City Council signing last week of a new contract with Waste Management, the city’s current waste disposal provider, came despite an annual cost difference of about $175,000 between...
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By LAUREN CLEM, Valley Breeze Staff Writer
WOONSOCKET – Mount Saint Charles Academy last week announced its top students who will serve as speakers at a graduation ceremony altered by COVID-19 measures.
Caroline Corrigan of Smithfield has...
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By LAUREN CLEM, Valley Breeze Staff Writer
WOONSOCKET – Members of the Woonsocket High School graduating class may have an opportunity to walk across the stage after all.
School officials this week said they were discussing possible...
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By LAUREN CLEM, Valley Breeze Staff Writer
WOONSOCKET – Every other Wednesday morning, members of the Woonsocket Education Department facilities staff travel to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank on Niantic Avenue in Providence. Once there...
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By LAUREN CLEM, Valley Breeze Staff Writer
WOONSOCKET – Beacon Charter High School for the Arts will hold its commencement ceremonies in an unusual venue this year: the Rustic Tri-View Drive-In on Route 146.
The ceremony will take place on...
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By LAUREN CLEM, Valley Breeze Staff Writer
WOONSOCKET – The city could soon have its own Pride Month celebration honoring members of the LGBTQ community under a new proposal submitted to the City Council last week.
The resolution, submitted...
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WOONSOCKET – Members of the Autumnfest Steering Committee said in a press release last Thursday that they have not yet made a decision on whether this year’s festival will happen and will release...
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WOONSOCKET – The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management and the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank have awarded $40,500 in matching grant funds to the city of Woonsocket for improvements...
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WOONSOCKET – Mount Saint Charles Academy announced last week the school is postponing commencement events and hopes to hold a modified graduation celebration in late July and early August.
School...
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WOONSOCKET – Jordan Date, a 5th-grade student at Leo Savoie Elementary School and Junior Girl Scout with Woonsocket Troop 764, recently earned her Girl Scout Bronze Award. The Bronze Award is the...
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WOONSOCKET – Five new officers were sworn in to the Woonsocket Police Department on Friday, May 1.
Jonathan Condon, Michael Frye, Hank Leitzke, Joshua Lindsey and Christopher Waite are now sworn...
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PROVIDENCE – The Salvation Army opened its stores in Providence, Woonsocket, and West Warwick on May 20. The stores were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic but are now ready to welcome shoppers with...
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BOSTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Regional Administrator David Tille has announced $355,666 in grants to support Rhode Island homeless assistance programs.
This funding...
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