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Granges offer leadership development for local community service projects within their theme of "American Values, Hometown Roots."Granges also offer a legislative voice through grassroots advocacy.

Cranston : "Taxpayers of Cranston should kiss this developer's feet! Anyone willing to spend money in Rhode Island deserves a medal!" - Cranston resident , commenting on Garden City Revamp Gets Planning Commission OK Coventry :"Marijuana has proven medicinal purposes and needs to be taken seriously.

NARRAGANSETT - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be hosting a free community dinner at Narragansett High School from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. tonight.

Across all levels, 56% of Rhode Island students scored at proficient or better in mathematics, a 1% increase from last year, and 73% achieved proficient or better in reading, a 2% improvement.

Advocates for the homeless set up a soup kitchen in the State House rotundaA yesterday to bring the state's increasing homeless problem right to the feet of state legislators.

This article is based on a press release issued by the Middletown Historical Society.

The unfinished Institute for International Sport, behind the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame, on Route 138 in South Kingstown.

Legislation in Rhode Island to restrict the interest rates that payday lenders can charge hasn't received a vote but is already winning widespread support in the General Assembly.

The Beacon Hill Institute, an economic research firm based out of Suffolk University, recently released its Tenth Annual State Competitiveness Report, which ranks the 50 states by their "policies and conditions that ensure and sustain a high level of per capita income and its continued growth." I usually don't put too much stock in these kinds of ... (more)

Advocates for the homeless began a weekly "Soup Kitchen" at the State House Thursday as part of an effort to feed hungry people -- and show legislators the human face of homelessness.

The Poverty Institute , a Providence nonprofit organization that advocates for policies to help poor and low income Rhode Islanders, is changing its name to The Economic Progress Institute.

The man who was seriously injured Jan. 30 and found lying in the street on Third Avenue has been identified by police as Victor Baez, 49, of 114 Third Avenue.

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One-in-four Rhode Island renters spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing-related expenses, according to a new report issued by HousingWorksRI.

Both enforce the same thing: drivers illegally passing a school bus. But one of the laws has violators reaching deeper into their pockets.

NORWAY Paul Brook grew up in Rhode Island and moved here after he got married. Now he owns Woodman's on Main Street in Norway.

St. John Episcopal Church food pantry co-director Sharon Buttrick points out some of the 3,100 pounds of food delivered last Wednesday by the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.

If all goes as planned, Navigant Credit Union will open a second branch in Lincoln this year at what's now Coventry Credit Union, 56 Railroad St.

Over the objections of school Supt. Donna M. Ottaviano, the School Committee and Town Council, the Rhode Island Board of Regents last week voted preliminary approval of an elementary school that will be part of the Rhode Island Mayoral Academies in Providence.

The Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation has announced that it received a grant for its special outreach program for underserved women in Rhode Island from the Amgen Foundation .