EAST PROVIDENCE — As expected with the shock announcement the day prior by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation to immediately close the structurally deficient westbound side of the …
EAST PROVIDENCE — Well, it certainly isn't too shabby for a "Plan B"...That's how East Providence High School Career and Tech Center Automotive instructor Joe Barroso recalled how his second …
EAST PROVIDENCE — The East Providence School Committee held a to-the-point, rather brief monthly meeting on Tuesday night, Oct. 10, in the high school auditorium. The Committee heard its …
EAST PROVIDENCE — The grande dame of East Providence politics and the city's school department, Mildred "Millie" Morris, passed away Wednesday morning, Aug. 2, 2023. She was 88. Morris, who …
East Providence has asked police to investigate allegedly fraudulent signatures on the lieutenant governor’s nomination papers, submitted by a different campaign worker, in the First Congressional District race.
district beginning this year. elementary schools are ditching recess for a new strategy to keep kids more active. joining us on the phone right now is chairman of the east providence school committee. he joins us now. good to talk to you sir. this just doesn't seem right. recess was my best subject. how could you just take it away? >> hi, rick. thanks for having me on the program. let me share with you that was my best subject as well. in no way, shape, and form are we doing that. what we're doing is enhancing the, call it recess process if you will. this is really unfortunate in that it is the product of a political football that is being kicked around the city here. the city of east providence you may or may not know, the schools in providence we came off a very acrimonious and contentious collective