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On Jan. 1, at 9:39 p.m., John McCarthy died of complications of COVID-19. “That’s my story,” she said, choking back tears. “Aren’t you glad you came to talk to me?” -------- The 911 call came around dinner time from a small, ground-floor apartment, on yet another crowded Central Falls street. It was the end of March 2020. When firefighter Andres Nunes went through the door, this is what he saw: A two-bedroom apartment packed with humanity, packed with stuff. Clothes and sheets and blankets piled in the living room. The kitchen table shoved aside to create more space. There weren�...

On Jan. 1, at 9:39 p.m., John McCarthy died of complications of COVID-19. “That’s my story,” she said, choking back tears. “Aren’t you glad you came to talk to me?” ____ The 911 call came around dinner time from a small, ground-floor apartment, on yet another crowded Central Falls street. It was the end of March 2020. When firefighter Andres Nunes went through the door, this is what he saw: A two-bedroom apartment packed with humanity, packed with stuff. Clothes and sheets and blankets piled in the living room. The kitchen table shoved aside to create more space. There weren’t e...

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) — The beleaguered people of Central Falls moved quickly...

Updated 5/24/2021 10:23 AM EDITOR’S NOTE — Another in an occasional series, COVID’s Scars, looking at how some of those battered by the pandemic are trying to recover after a year of pain and loss. CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) -- The beleaguered people of Central Falls moved quickly through the high school gym's injection stations and then to rest on dozens of metal folding chairs, borrowed from the Knights of Columbus. Immunity was at hand, but no one was celebrating.   Central Falls -- the poorest and smallest city in the nation's smallest state -- is also among the hardest hit by COVID-...

May 24, 2021 Share CENTRAL FALLS — The beleaguered people of Central Falls moved quickly through the high school gym’s injection stations and then to rest on dozens of metal folding chairs, borrowed from the Knights of Columbus. Immunity was at hand, but no one was celebrating. Central Falls — the poorest and smallest city in the nation’s smallest state — is also among the hardest hit by COVID-19. Sorrow reaches across the city: The dead husband. The mother who came from Guatemala in search of a better life, only to die in a new land. The Polish priest who buried parishioner...