Woonsocket Alliance News Today

WOONSOCKET – The Woonsocket Health Equity Zone has received a grant of $250,000 from the Rhode Island Foundation to launch a “Child Friendly Woonsocket” initiative.

12/30/2020 Local activists on the fight for racial justice: ‘We’re not done yet’ Isaiah Figueroa, left, and Dewayne Hill, both from Woonsocket, marched in a youth-led Black Lives Matter protest in Woonsocket in June. (Breeze File photo by Lauren clem) WOONSOCKET – While much of the focus of 2020 was on the COVID-19 pandemic, events of this past spring threw another kind of national crisis into the spotlight. In May, the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer set off a n...