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January 21, 2021 9:22 am PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) – Widespread asymptomatic testing of school students and teachers kicked off this month in Rhode Island. The R.I. Department of Education offered all schools the option between a one-time testing event or bi-weekly testing. At last check, RIDE says 40 public and 25 private schools signed up for the school based testing program and 50,000 tests have been picked up by schools that have completed the training. 18 testing events have been scheduled so far. Classical High School Nurse Sarah Larson helped kick-start the program at Classical High Sc...

You read about the marvelous Misha Marshall in the Light just before the end of the year. Now you can meet her and the young writer who brought you her

Her career in the Providence public schools spans 35 years, first as a social-studies teacher at Mount Pleasant high School and later as an assistant principal at Classical High School.    Abood-Tavares retired in 2004, but she returned to Providence to work as a retired administrator and mentor at Harry Kizirian Elementary School and Hope High School.  She was raised on Federal Hill, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants. Her father, Joseph Abood, represented Rhode Island at JFK’s inauguration. A framed copy of the president’s speech hung on the walls of Abood-Tavares’s classrooms fo...

Interview: Lanre Ajakaiye of 25 Bough Street The entrepreneur has big plans for 25 Bough Street, a community development and commercial impact project in Olneyville. December 21, 2020 Photography by Michelle Carpenter Lanre Ajakaiye drives around the neighborhood where he grew up in the Olneyville section of Providence for a tour that is half nostalgic, half hopeful of its resurgence. He makes stops at Hartford Park where he spent his early years as a child of Nigerian immigrants chasing Mr. Bill’s Lemonade Truck, then motors toward the building where he went to kindergarten when it was cal...

Rhode Island for Community and Justice understands discrimination, and fights against it YOUTH MOVEMENT: From left, Chelcie Speaks and Michelle St. Onge are regular participants in Rhode Island for Community and Justice’s multiple youth programs that promote community empowerment. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE PBN DIVERSITY & INCLUSIONS 2020 AWARDS Education: Rhode Island for Community and Justice FOR ROSE ALBERT and many others at Rhode Island for Community and Justice, 2020 has been a year of growth, a year of challenge and a year when new subsets of people in...