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What is it allowed to do?  Pave sidewalks from Westerly to Woonsocket? Build a brand new "rec center in every community? Build a well because, well, the town needs a new well? Or take Rhode Islands share of the state and local dollars in President Joe Bidens "American Rescue Plan" and invest big chunks of it in one of more really BIG ideas? Theres uncertainty right now about how these federal dollars can be used, but the Twitterverse is already bubbling with ideas: "How about earmarking so...

Emergency room visits for kids are down during the pandemic. But that’s not entirely good news Behind the low numbers of broken bones and bouts of the flu is a darker reality: the profound isolation and inactivity that children have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic By Brian Amaral Globe Staff,Updated April 9, 2021, 5:48 p.m. Email to a Friend Dr. Susan Duffy, MD, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Childrens Hospital, poses for a photo in the hospitals healing garden...