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Do you know where Rhode Island’s Gingerbread and Pancake Islands are?
The islands are often seen but few pay attention to their existence and infamous and racist Rhode Island writer H.P. Lovecraft linked them to pirate treasure.
“I used to row considerably on the Seekonk … Often I would land on one or both of the Twin Islands for islands (associated with remote secrets, pirate treasure, and all that) always fascinated me.” Lovecraft letter to Rimel, April 1934.
Gingerbread and Pancake Islands are mere spits of land just to the north of the Washington Bridge on I-195, in the Seekonk River between Providence and East Providence.
2/23/2021
Slater Park gets new ‘Airbnb-ee’
Abby Schwab, of Pawtucket, with one of the pollinator boxes she made for Slater Park as part of her Eagle Scout project.
Eagle Scout Schwab creates pollinator boxes for endangered bees
PAWTUCKET – In an effort to help endangered bee populations, 18-year-old Abby Schwab built and installed three “bee hotels” at Slater Park this winter, working with the Pawtucket Parks and Recreation Department.
A member of Troop 1846 Attleboro, Schwab, of Pawtucket, completed the project and achieved the status of Eagle Scout, making history as a member of the Narragansett Council, Boy Scouts of America’s first female Eagle Scout class. She’s among only a handful of young women across the U.S. to make up the inaugural class of female Eagle Scouts, according to a release. Becoming an Eagle Scout, Schwab told The Breeze, “is special to me because scouting has been in my family for a long time.” She added that she’s proud to make hist
CHARLESTOWN â At a lengthy virtual meeting last week, members of the Charlestown Town Council approved resolutions asking the General Assembly to pass two bills affecting beverage bottles.Â
House Bill 5113 would require a deposit on miniature alcoholic drink bottles, known as nips, and the second, House Bill 5280, would require a deposit on all beverage containers. Roadside litter, especially discarded nips, is a perennial concern in the town.Â
The first resolution was proposed by Councilor Susan Cooper, who cited the success other states have had reducing litter by introducing deposits.
The council also gave unanimous support to a resolution supporting the second bill, the Beverage Container Deposit Recycling Act.