From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Montgomery: Alabama public health officials are warning people to avoid eating any fish from some state waterways because of contamination. The state Department of Public Health issued its latest fish consumption advisories this month. They are based on nearly 500 samples of specific fish species taken during the fall of 2020 from 41 bodies of water, health officials said. Restrictions on consumption are broken down by waterbody and presented as the safe number of meals of a species that can be eaten in a given period of time. In some locations, people are advised to avoid all fish. Mercury is often cited as the fish contaminant of concern.
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3/16/2021 Preliminary groundwork for a new stadium on the Pawtucket riverfront has begun. PAWTUCKET – The redevelopment of the former Tidewater gas plant site on Pawtucket’s riverfront into a modern soccer stadium and associated amenities reached its most visible stage yet this week, with new environmental work beginning Monday, March 15. Over the next two weeks, tangible progress will be evident on-site as geotechnical engineers and environmental professionals will be on the Tidewater parcel and 45 Division St. property across the river performing additional site work to further the progress of the project. Some selective clearing will begin to clear pathways to provide equipment access to the site for drilling to better understand the site soils and constraints on the property. Soil sampling will also be completed and groundwater monitoring wells installed, according to representatives for developer Fortuitous Partners. The work will be active for the next month or two.
12/29/2020 COVID-19 impacted everything in Pawtucket in 2020 Nia Dacruz proudly showed off her diploma jacket after officially graduating from Tolman High School in June. She said she was happy to be able to walk across a stage for her graduation. Like at so many other schools, the students at Tolman were deprived of a normal high school graduation ceremony. The school recorded the graduates walking across the stage at McCoy Stadium as well as speeches to compile a full graduation video that aired on Capitol TV. (Breeze file photo by Charles Lawrence) PAWTUCKET – There was no aspect of life in Pawtucket this year that hasn’t been touched in some way by the COVID-19 pandemic, from the lives lost or turned upside down by health scares to the financial impacts for residents and business owners.
12/22/2020 Mother-daughter team makes Christmas gifts for those in need Deb Bedrosian, of Cumberland, and her mother, ‘Peanut’ Bedrosian, of North Providence, made 1,100 of these ornaments to include in each of the gift bags they made to donate to children and adults in need this year. CUMBERLAND – She may not have a sleigh pulled by reindeer but Cumberland’s Deb Bedrosian shares some similarities with old Saint Nick. This year, as she has for the past dozen years, Bedrosian has assembled 1,100 gift bags, which each include a handmade ornament that she begins making over the summer, for homeless individuals and children in the care of the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth, and Families. By the time she’s done assembling the gifts, she fills more than 50 45-gallon bags and drives around to the organizations to drop off the presents. “They don’t know it’s me. All they know is that someone cared,” she told The Breeze. “It just warms your heart to know you could be touching one person. If it took me 1,100 gifts to get one person to smile,” she said it’s all worth it.