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Frank LaTorre, champion of Providenceâs night life and downtown culture, dies at 71
The former executive director of the Providence Downtown Improvement District found new ways to make the city vibrant.
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Frank LaTorre, who was the executive director of the Providence Downtown Improvement District, died this past week at 71.Providence Downtown Improvement District
PROVIDENCE â Even during the cityâs hardest times in the last two decades, Frank LaTorre was an incessant champion of Providenceâs downtown culture. He would often say that the creative capital was in need of a night mayor to cover the cityâs âother 9 to 5,â standing in stark contrast to the more-typical reaction of adding police patrols to address late-night activity.
12/22/2020
Snow days live on in some districts despite pandemic
Ivory Vann, 8, and her mom, Stacy, enjoy a Friday afternoon of sledding at Cold Spring Park. (Breeze photos by Robert Emerson)
The COVID-19 pandemic couldn’t completely take away the beloved snow day from Rhode Island and Massachusetts, but for some districts, last Thursday’s storm looked a little different than previous years.
In Blackstone, administrators from the Blackstone-Millville Regional School District announced a complete closure with no learning, remote or in-person, taking place during the day. The Blackstone Valley Boys and Girls Club was also closed as students enjoyed a welcome break from distance learning and the approximately 12 inches of snow the area received.
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Quarantines Leave Schools Scrambling for Substitute Teachers
A Hanover College student works as a substitute teacher at a school in Greenfield, Indiana. Several states have relaxed qualification requirements for substitute teachers during the pandemic.
Michael Conroy
The Associated Press
Josephine Brewington has been a substitute teacher in suburban Beech Grove, Indiana, for a decade, but her job has grown in importance as her school district scrambles to supervise pupils whose teachers are sick, quarantining or caring for others.
“We’d have teachers from the high school come over and help teach fourth graders because we didn’t have enough subs,” Brewington said of how the system has handled absences this fall. “People from the offices are helping, principals are covering classrooms it’s like everyone’s pitching in.”
A month-by-month look at COVID-19 in Rhode Island
With two weeks still to go, December is already one of the worst months of the pandemic
By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated December 18, 2020, 8:21 a.m.
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A health care worker carries a COVID-19 specimen from a motorist at a drive-thru testing site outside McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, R.I, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. The testing site was set up outside the minor league baseball stadium as a partnership with the state and ACCU Reference Medical Lab to help with demand for more testing amidst a surge in coronavirus cases.David Goldman/Associated Press