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GOOOAALLL: Reed Nets $146,000 Boost for Project GOAL After-School Programs
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GOOOAALLL: Reed Nets $146,000 Boost for Project GOAL After-School Programs

LPR News November 25, 2024

PROVIDENCE, RI – U.S. Senator Jack Reed today hit the pitch with Project GOAL (Greater Opportunity for Athletes to Learn), a non-profit coeducational after-school initiative for elementary school and middle school youth, to kick in a $146,000 federal earmark for the organization’s academic enrichment, mentoring, and soccer training programs. Senator Reed joined with Project GOAL’s Executive […]Read More

Mayor Smiley to Host Annual City Hall Tree Lighting
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Mayor Smiley to Host Annual City Hall Tree Lighting

LPR News November 25, 2024

Celebration Features Local Performers, Fun for All Ages PROVIDENCE, RI– Mayor Brett P. Smiley, Providence City Councilors; Providence Tourism Council Chair Alexis Gorriarán, and Department of Arts, Culture and Tourism Director Joe Wilson Jr. will gather on the front steps of Providence City Hall on Friday, December 6, 2024 for the City’s annual Tree Lighting […]Read More

Providence DPW to Kickoff Winter Preparedness with Snow Plowing Techniques and Key Routes
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Providence DPW to Kickoff Winter Preparedness with Snow Plowing Techniques

LPR News November 25, 2024

PROVIDENCE, RI– Mayor Brett P. Smiley will today join Department of Public Works (DPW) Director Patricia Coyne-Fague for a winter preparedness exercise where members of the DPW team will practice snow plowing techniques on salt piles. This exercise is part of the city’s ongoing efforts to ensure that DPW is fully prepared for the upcoming […]Read More

PAWTUCKET FIRST LADY GREBIEN GEARS UP TO DISTRIBUTE 850+ TURKEY BASKETS
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PAWTUCKET FIRST LADY GREBIEN GEARS UP TO DISTRIBUTE 850+ TURKEY

LPR News November 25, 2024

PAWTUCKET – First Lady Laureen Grebien announces the upcoming assembling and distribution of 850+ turkey baskets to low-income Pawtucket residents. These baskets, distributed, will help these individuals to celebrate Thanksgiving with their families. Over 100 volunteers, from students, adults, members of civic groups, and Pawtucket City employees, will show up to load 12 items per brown […]Read More

Governor McKee Appoints Deborah J. Goddard as Rhode Island Secretary of Housing
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Governor McKee Appoints Deborah J. Goddard as Rhode Island Secretary

LPR News November 21, 2024

PROVIDENCE, RI — Today, Governor Dan McKee appointed Deborah J. Goddard to serve as Secretary of the Rhode Island Department of Housing. Goddard has more than 40 years of housing experience in the private and public sectors. She currently leads the Massachusetts-based DJ Goddard Consulting, which advises and provides organizational and process analysis for public, quasi-public […]Read More

CCRI to Announce Partnership with Building Futures to Launch New Pre-Apprenticeship Training
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CCRI to Announce Partnership with Building Futures to Launch New

LPR News November 21, 2024

Thursday afternoon in celebration of National Apprenticeship Week, the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI), in partnership with Building Futures Rhode Island (BFRI), is hosting a press conference with Governor Dan McKee, Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, and labor leaders to announce the launch of a new pre-apprenticeship readiness training program for recent high school graduates […]Read More

AttendanceMattersRI: Governor McKee, Commissioner Infante-Green Recognize Weekly Attendance Leaders and Improved Schools
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AttendanceMattersRI: Governor McKee, Commissioner Infante-Green Recognize Weekly Attendance Leaders and Improved Schools

LPR News November 20, 2024

Week of November 11, 2024 PROVIDENCE, RI — Acknowledging the importance of consistent attendance in education and in alignment with the #AttendanceMattersRI campaign, Governor Dan McKee and Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green are pleased to highlight the top elementary, middle, and high schools with the greatest average weekly attendance. The following schools are Rhode Island’s attendance leaders for the week of November 11, 2024*:   Elementary: Stadium Elementary School, Cranston – 97.2% Middle: Portsmouth Middle […]Read More

Whitehouse Returns from Baku after Leading Senate Delegation to COP29
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Whitehouse Returns from Baku after Leading Senate Delegation to COP29

LPR News November 20, 2024

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) led the Senate delegation to Baku, Azerbaijan last weekend for the U.N.’s 29th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP)—the largest and most important venue for world governments to gather to find international agreement on ways to solve the global climate crisis.  U.S. Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) […]Read More

Treasurer Diossa Announces Interstate Partnership and Program Administrator for RISavers Program
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Treasurer Diossa Announces Interstate Partnership and Program Administrator for RISavers

LPR News November 20, 2024

Cranston, RI – Today, General Treasurer James A. Diossa announced that Treasury will offer a public retirement savings program for Rhode Island private sector employees not currently offered a retirement savings option by their employer. The RISavers Program (“RISavers”) – created by the Secure Choice Retirement Savings Program Act – will partner with an existing […]Read More

Governor McKee, Congressional Delegation, and Office of Energy Resources Award Municipalities $2.75 Million from Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant Program
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Governor McKee, Congressional Delegation, and Office of Energy Resources Award

LPR News October 29, 2024

PROVIDENCE, RI – Governor Dan McKee, Rhode Island’s Congressional Delegation, and the Office of Energy Resources have awarded $2.75 million from the Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) Program, with $1.5 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and $1.25 million from the state’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative […]Read More

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