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GoLocalProv | Side of the Rhode: Who's Hot and Who's Not?

GoLocalProv | Side of the Rhode: Who's Hot and Who's Not?
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Providence Warwick CVB reports $10 million direct spend spike as meetings and conventions business grows

Providence Warwick CVB reports $10 million direct spend spike as meetings and conventions business grows
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Great Race of classic cars starts Saturday in Warwick, R

One Rhode Islander, Tom Laferriere of Smithfield, will compete with 129 others in a rally to North Dakota for a $50,000 grand prize.

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The Great Race Puts Rocky Point State Park Back on the Radar

The Great Race brings excitement back to Rocky Point State Park after being closed for nearly twenty years, choosing the historic Warwick landmark as the

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GoLocalProv | URI Board of Trustees Names Parlange President - Replaces Retiring Dooley

Parlange to serve as URI's 12th President
The Board of Trustees of the University of Rhode Island announced on Monday the selection of Professor Marc B. Parlange to serve as the University's 12th President
He will succeed David M. Dooley, who joined URI in July 2009. Parlange’s appointment is effective August 1, 2021.
He was born in Providence to parents who emigrated from France and Ireland. Parlange will leave Monash, a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, with an enrollment of more than 85,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
URI has 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students, a budget of more than $800 million and four campuses.

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GoLocalProv | Georgia Law Dangerously Pays Tribute to the "Big Lie"

In the heated back and forth over the degree to which the new Georgia law makes it more difficult to vote, its most dangerous provision has not received the attention that it deserves. Simply put, the new law takes power away from the secretary of state a

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GoLocalProv | McKee Announces Small Business $5,000 Grant Program

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

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Governor Dan McKee and Rhode Island Commerce Secretary Stefan Pryor announced a new grant program to assist small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The program will use $20 million of the nearly $1.25 billion in CARES Act funds from last spring to give qualifying businesses $5,000 grants.
The first round of applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis beginning, Thursday, April 15, 2021, through Friday, April 30, 2021, at 5:00 p.m.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
Future rounds and expansions of this program are possible depending upon demand and availability of funds.

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GoLocalProv | Drive-By Shooting Takes Place at Memorial for Recent Providence Homicide Victim

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

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A drive-by shooting took place Monday night — at the location of the memorial of Providence’s fourth homicide victim of the year.
Police had reported that Isaias Boulos, 21, had been fatally shot early Monday morning in a parked car on Atlantic Avenue.
According to police, a 29-year-old was shot several times, with non-life-threatening injuries.
City’s 4th Homicide Victim of Year Lost Brother to Gun Violence
Police confirmed that it was Boulos’ brother — Christian Pena — who was shot and killed in South Providence in 2018.
Pena’s murder was investigated for possible ties to his involvement in the “Throwback for Days” gang.

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GoLocalProv | RI Dad Battles COVID As Daughter Gets Into Harvard - He Now Fights to Keep His Businesses Alive

The owner of popular Providence entertainment and nightlife establishments had a recent scare with COVID this past week, as his daughter, who was just accepted to Harvard, was also was diagnosed with the virus.

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GoLocalProv | BREAKING: FDA and CDC "Pause" Johnson & Johnson Vaccine

The FDA and CDC on Tuesday called for an immediate pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose coronavirus vaccine after six recipients in the United States developed a rare disorder involving blood clots within about two weeks of vaccination.

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