Stella Lorence News Today

WOONSOCKET – Following an unexpected announcement that the Woonsocket YMCA will close next year, coaches and City Council members are scrambling to relocate the Y’s programs.

WOONSOCKET – Documents, including contracts, checks and emails from the former administration’s unauthorized purchase of land on Mendon Road are now publicly available on the city’s website.

WOONSOCKET – Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt resigned from office on Thursday after a decade as mayor, citing ongoing health issues.

WOONSOCKET – Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt announced this week the city has once again come close to bringing a supermarket inside its borders.

WOONSOCKET – Landmark Medical Center’s cancer care operation is set to return to Woonsocket from North Smithfield in a newly renovated space across from the main hospital opening in January.

WARWICK – Universal school lunches with local “farm to school” ingredients is worth striving for in the Ocean State, say leaders from the Rhode Island Healthy Schools Coalition.

WOONSOCKET – Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt announced that RISE Prep Mayoral Academy was pulling out of a deal with the Woonsocket Education Department to construct two new school buildings at Dunn

PROVIDENCE – Municipalities in Rhode Island will be able to prioritize their own homeless residents for some shelter spaces under a new policy approved this month by the Rhode Island

WOONSOCKET – Over 100 Woonsocket Education Department staff members, new and returning, started off their orientation this year with a keynote address about how to end generational poverty through a

WOONSOCKET – Woonsocket High School’s popular Peer Mentor program has grown to over 100 mentors this year, about 70% of whom are new to the program.