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Pawtucket officials urged to step aside on opposing homeless shelter

The Valley Breeze 26 Mar 2025
PAWTUCKET – Representatives from OpenDoors Rhode Island pleaded with the City Council to remove a potential major roadblock to a new homeless shelter at the former Memorial Hospital last week ....
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For the birds: The debate over Gould Island's future and what it means for nesting birds

The Providence Journal 26 Mar 2025
JAMESTOWN – There was a time when the skies over Rhode Island were all but absent of waterbirds ... Their presence in the Ocean State today is due in large part to the shelter offered by a smattering of islands in and around Narragansett Bay.
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Suffolk starts collecting new revenue for long-term sewer upgrade plan

Newsday 26 Mar 2025
The voter-approved sales tax hike took effect March 1, with money generated for the new Water Quality Restoration Fund ... Romaine ... Gabreski Airport ... Romaine ... Sign up ... Joe Werkmeister covers the towns of Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island ... Newsday.
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Rep. Andrew Garbarino reschedules virtual town hall to April 7

Newsday 25 Mar 2025
Garbarino, who represents the 2nd Congressional District along a stretch of Long Island's South Shore, will be the ... Joe Werkmeister covers the towns of Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island.
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Bill to secure affordable housing for Suffolk County volunteer first responders a win-win, lawmaker says

Newsday 25 Mar 2025
"Affordability on Long Island is a big issue that is having a huge impact on all families, and quite frankly, if ... Joe Werkmeister covers the towns of Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island.
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A Brown researcher took a deep dive into 'Why Nothing Works' in government. What he found.

The Providence Journal 24 Mar 2025
It's not hard to see this dynamic reflected in the saga of Rhode Island's lowest-in-the-nation homebuilding, the saga of Providence's Pallet shelter village or Amtrak's inability to straighten the Northeast Corridor through South County.
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'You learn humanity' - the trials and rewards of a foster mum for 60

RNZ 23 Mar 2025
The 53-year-old told RNZ Night's Maggie Tweedie that sheltering tamariki ... Growing up on Matakana Island, Lewis said her parents would often provide shelter for tamariki who ran away over the weekend.
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‘Outside our jurisdiction’: Shelter Cove gangway collapse reveals gaps in marina oversight

The Island Packet 22 Mar 2025
On the heels of Sapelo Island and Shelter Cove dock incidents, are Head Island’s docks and gangways safe? Asking that question leads local and state agencies to point fingers at each other ....
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Newly elected Suffolk Association of Municipal Employees president Terry Maccarrone to prioritize new contract for members

Newsday 22 Mar 2025
The newly elected board led by Terry Maccarrone, 56, of Sayville, ousted the current president and vice presidents by doubling the incumbent’s vote total ... Sign up ... Joe Werkmeister covers the towns of Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island ... Credit.
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Did the Pawtucket City Council just kill plans for a homeless shelter at Memorial Hospital?

The Providence Journal 21 Mar 2025
Since the COVID pandemic, the number of Rhode Islanders living on the streets or in tent encampments has steadily grown, and efforts to open shelters to help them have been met with resistance in every municipality.
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Argentine Navy Rescues Chilean Supply Vessel off Antarctica

The Maritime Executive 21 Mar 2025
Betanzos was delivered safely to a sheltered anchorage in Discovery Bay, Greenwich Island; her 19 passengers were transferred to the Chilean base on King George Island, 30 nautical miles to the east, for a repatriation flight.
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Secret to John Feinstein’s golf- and sportswriting success wasn’t complicated

Golf 21 Mar 2025
About 30 years ago, my wife and I were visiting John and his wife, Mary, on Shelter Island, N.Y., where John had spent many summers. (Christine and I were married on Shelter Island.) The house was new, ...
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Gabby Petito's birthday: New domestic violence push unveiled as slain woman's grandma reveals emotional wish

Hindustan Times 20 Mar 2025
“There are more animal shelters in Long Island than there are shelters for women and abuse victims,” Wickman added ... Long Island’s new domestic violence push ... violence shelter, closed on March 14.
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Gabby Petito’s grandma reveals birthday wish as Long Island unveils new domestic abuse push: ‘Would ...

New York Post 20 Mar 2025
“There are more animal shelters in Long Island than there are shelters for women and abuse victims.” 5 ... Long Island, according to the state health department, has some of the lowest rates of domestic violence in the state.
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House GOP leader accuses McKee of 'culture of secrecy' over Pallet shelter spending

The Newport Daily News 19 Mar 2025
Rhode Island ... PROVIDENCE – House Minority Leader Mike Chippendale asked for a breakdown of who and how much was paid to build the Echo Village pallet shelters for unsheltered Rhode islanders – and Gov.

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