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Residential Properties announced the sale of 53 Stimson Avenue on Providence’s East Side for $3.25 million. According to State-Wide MLS data, this is the highest single-family home sale in Providence this year. RPL has now participated in 29 of the 39 Pro

Peter Halperin has been a professional musician and songwriter since he was young. In the 1970s, Halperin was part of the folk scene, and by the time he was 17 years old, he was playing in clubs like Folk City and the Gaslight in New York City. “I’ve always been kind of a folk, country-blues, […]

Residential Properties Ltd. announced the sale of 20 Benefit Street on Providence’s East Side for $1,315,000. RPL The home is The Christopher H. Drowne House.

Ladyfest is coming up Oct. 8. It’s a celebration of women musicians that supports Connect to End Violence, a program of Martha’s Vineyard Community Services. Connect’s mission is “to reduce domestic and sexual violence on Martha’s Vineyard by changing the social norms through education, advocacy, and community mobilization, and providing crisis intervention services including advocacy, […]

  After an almost two-year hiatus due to COVID, Polly Simpkins and the Cup of Karma Project returned for an afternoon of community and inspirational storytelling on Saturday at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum to a “sold-out” group of almost 75 guests. Simpkins believes we are all deeply connected, and voices that need to be heard, […]

Pathways vibrated with creativity on Friday evening, with its eighth annual celebration “Women Live,” a multi-arts event celebrating International Women’s Month. We were welcomed into the space at the Chilmark Tavern with multimedia artist Danielle Mulcahy’s latest short film, “More Than a Day,” created in collaboration with dancer Jesse Jason. Text written by local high […]

Heard on Main Street: When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane. When I was growing up, St. Patrick’s Day meant that everyone you knew was trying to wear green — or at least something green. It was really a celebration of the coming of spring and sunshine, and what we had waited […]