Listed here are a few of The Windfall Journal’s most-read tales for the week of Dec. 31, supported by your subscriptions.
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Dig out the boots, lay in a provide of bread and milk, and strap in for what’s anticipated to be the primary vital snowfall to hit our space in two years. Regulate providencejournal.com for the most recent on how a lot is more likely to fall on Saturday evening and Sunday. And earlier than the flakes fly, examine your snow blower.
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In case you (like me) have pushed and/or trudged by the snow in a quest for espresso (often iced, even in a blizzard), try these seven spots which are hottest with our readers.
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As Rhode Island marks its 388th 12 months, columnist Mark Patinkin celebrates its timeless charms and interesting quirkiness, making it “a haven of the odd, the free, and the dissenting,” within the phrases of native son H.P. Lovecraft.
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Friars followers obtained some terrible information on Thursday when it was confirmed that star ahead Bryce Hopkins will miss the remainder of the season after struggling an harm towards Seton Corridor. How will that have an effect on Windfall’s probabilities of staying within the AP High 25? For that and extra faculty and highschool sports activities information, go to providencejournal.com/sports activities.
Listed here are the week’s high reads on providencejournal.com:
In June, St. Mary’s House for Kids, a residential remedy middle serving youth in state care, welcomed a motorbike membership onto its North Windfall campus to serve “as a deterrent to human traffickers.”
The weird association moved ahead with out the information of the state Division of Kids, Youth & Households. It ended abruptly in August after the state Workplace of the Little one Advocate raised considerations about members of “Bikers In opposition to Little one Abuse” standing guard towards potential predators at a remedy middle for traumatized and high-risk youth.
The revelation is a part of a report produced by the kid advocate’s workplace after an eight-month investigation of St. Mary’s, which started after a 17-year-old lady housed there was discovered unconscious from a drug overdose.
“Considerations embrace however usually are not restricted to, youngsters being bodily assaulted by different youngsters, youngsters being sexually assaulted by different youngsters, youngsters being injured in restraints,” the report states.
The day after The Journal’s story on the bombshell report, the longtime director of St. Mary’s stepped down, and Home and Senate leaders at the moment are calling for hearings.
Little one welfare: Overdoses, assault and restraints: Inside a damning report on St. Mary’s House for Kids
The Platters helped shift the panorama of music within the Fifties at a time of fierce racial divides in America, introducing R&B to a wider viewers.
It’s that legacy that The Platters’ founder, bass singer Herb Reed, strove to guard till his dying in 2012 – work that’s now being continued by his successor, Frederick J. Balboni Jr.
The Platters’ wealthy historical past is central to a lawsuit filed in federal courtroom in Rhode Island towards a singer set to carry out Jan. 20 on the East Windfall Excessive College auditorium. Maryland-based singer Joe Coleman promotes himself as a singer with The Platters for greater than twenty years.
Balboni and Eric Sommers, who’s representing Herb Reed Enterprises, name Coleman an imposter who’s buying and selling off the goodwill and expertise generated by The Platters. They’re asking the courtroom to bar Coleman from utilizing the group’s identify.
Courts: Trailblazing R&B group sues ‘imposter’ in RI to guard historical past
PROVIDENCE – The final in a line of three historic Angell Road properties was demolished this week. And nonetheless, nobody is aware of what is going to change into of the land.
The homes, constructed within the late 1800s, have been leveled on the request of 217 Angell Investments II, LLC. It’s unclear who’s behind the LLC, because the state’s company database lists “The Company Belief Firm” in East Windfall because the resident agent – not an individual.
The corporate states it exists for the “possession and operation of economic actual property, together with with out limitation a resort, multi-family flats, retail or workplace, and different ancillary business actions attendant to such actions.”
Metropolis officers say no proposals for the properties have been submitted, leaving neighbors guessing – and fuming.
“Windfall was once a nationwide chief in historic preservation,” mentioned Chris Tompkins, who lives within the neighborhood. “We’re now going backwards and dismantling what makes Windfall distinctive.”
Actual property: Angell Road properties leveled, and neighbors stay ‘at the hours of darkness’ on plans
Six new tenants are coming to Cranston’s Backyard Metropolis Heart this 12 months, together with the enlargement of a Windfall cookie store, whereas a jewellery retailer is increasing into the watch enterprise.
The brand new openings imply Backyard Metropolis is nearly at its full leased capability with this latest group of tenants, Backyard Metropolis Spokeswoman Religion Lockhart mentioned.
For a preview of the newcomers, learn on.
Retail: Six new outlets are coming to Cranston’s Backyard Metropolis Heart in 2024
Rhode Island is among the few locations the place somebody asking for a “dynamite” might be not searching for explosives.
They’re in all probability requesting a really particular sandwich.
“In Woonsocket, there’s a sandwich referred to as a ‘dynamite.’ It’s served on a torpedo roll. Typically in contrast with Sloppy Joe’s however dynamites have peppers and onions. Teams have fundraisers referred to as a ‘beer and dynamite’ supper,” a What and Why reader wrote in saying. “The place did the identify come from?”
Let’s check out the historical past of this regional meal.
What and Why RI: Dynamite sandwiches are native to Woonsocket. How did they get their identify?
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