For the Providence Journal, @antoniafarzan.bsky.social reports on Rhode Island's appearance in the Epstein files. Great -- albeit nauseating -- reporting.

Another gun-violence nightmare in Rhode Island.

Working Waterfront In Winter New Bedford, Massachusetts #Photography

Come for @antoniafarzan.bsky.social peeling the layers back on how big superstores have made it hard for new grocers to open up shop in RI. Stay for the Lt. Governor pausing mid-interview to roast me for spending all my free time picking through municipal land evidence records.

What if we just shipped our snow south.

Love to spend a cozy winter day in Providence*. *This photo posted by Providence Tourism on IG is either AI, Cleveland, or some other city I don't recognize.

Ok now I can say it. This post was about Cru

Will never forget the time I ordered “bruschetta” in Garden City, Kansas

“U.S. Army veteran Cheryl Farias has been wheelchair-bound since her leg was amputated last year. With an apartment on Broadway near Newport City Hall, she’s still been able to get around.”

“Where in the world is Woonsocket’s annual audit? The city still hasn’t filed the legally required annual review of its 2023-24 spending, which was due over a year ago."

I believe Recycle-A-Bike in Olneyville has that?

I have a memory of being somewhere in R.I. - maybe a government office? – where there were several different wall clocks all set to the same time displaying the names of different R.I. towns like Woonsocket, Westerly, etc. Does anyone remember what I’m talking about or did I dream it?

anyone know the story behind the Nigeria Tree in RWP?

'A matter of self-respect': Lawmaker seeks to repeal Potato Head plate www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p... via @antoniafarzan.bsky.social

Anyway, here’s a photo of Providence I took on a walk this evening.

RI public employee unions say Rhode Island's new $95M human resources IT system is making workers go without pay More than 3,000 complaints have been filed after 3 pay cycles under the new software www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

The hurricane of 1938 is my Roman Empire

When Narragansett Bay froze over. Fun story from @antoniafarzan.bsky.social www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

McKee administration drops plan to bar protesters from rotunda during State of the State speech next week www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

RI Custom Casting, one of the few remaining jewelry and metals factories in Olneyville, is shutting down and the property is for sale. The photos of the executive offices are pure 1960s PVD from the pine-covered walls to a ton of Catholic crosses providence.craigslist.org/reo/d/provid...

for the final Political Scene of the year, I profiled a true Rhode Island character www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Been fielding a lot of questions about why people in Providence didn't get Amber Alert-style emergency notifications on their phones during the Brown shooting. Here's what the city has to say: www.providencejournal.com/story/news/c...

An extremely R.I. scandal: the head of the ACI allegedly having inmates manufacture novelty license plates for his friends www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Still interested in hearing from people about this, especially if yo found in a non-traditional way (like non-governmental apps)

Merry Christmas to the rival Christmas dinghies on Wapping Road

After everything, this is the thing that finally made me cry www.providencejournal.com/story/news/c...

The Brown student who was falsely accused - on X & elsewhere - of being the shooter has made a statement, and so have his lawyers. The student says: "Instead of grieving with my community...I received non-stop death threats and hate speech." Story via @antoniafarzan.bsky.social, in the ProJo.

McKee says emergency alerts didn’t go out because “there were not enough details on that first call” www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

There will be many lessons to take from the tragedy at Brown. One is this: spreading baseless theories and false accusations online causes real harm. Innocent young people have had their lives upended by reckless online speculation. It is damaging, and it must stop.

In case you (somehow!) missed it www.providencejournal.com/story/news/c...

Sources report Brown University gunman is dead www.providencejournal.com/live-story/n...

Providence Police in Salem, NH as hunt for Brown University shooter intensifies www.providencejournal.com/live-story/n...

ICYMI: yesterday, I wrote an op-ed for the @thepvdeye.bsky.social that tried to capture how these last few days in Providence -- my beloved hometown -- have felt. I also invited other PVD folks to share their own thoughts: [email protected].

Providence people - I’m working on a story about how residents first learned about the Brown shooting. Word of mouth, social media, official alerts? Feel free to DM me if you’re willing to share your experience (would need to use your full name)

may be biased because she's a friend, but this piece by @h-lev.bsky.social is the best piece I've read summing up the mood in Providence right now www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Why didn’t PVD ask the state to activate emergency alerts? "We didn't, and looking back on it, we'll have to decide whether that's something that should have been done," Smiley said. "But in the moment we were communicating through every means we knew how." www.providencejournal.com/story/news/c...

This is important reporting from the Journal. And the headline is spot-on. It's unconscionable that Providence residents only got alerts from the city about a mass shooter at large *if they were opted in* to 311 alerts.

Sadly -- and somewhat ironically -- it was a Brown U. student who was wrongly accused of being one of the Boston Marathon bombers, in the aftermath of that crime.

Something I do want to point out is they used city RIPTA buses to transport students safely out of the area. A bus system that many people in our city government have been trying to gut. Buses are a public good that need to be protected.

Recommendation for PVD/RI holiday shoppers: this little treasure of a store, on the East Side of Providence.

"Department of Transportation officials have not publicly mentioned the fact that they asked their consultants to investigate building a new span," via @waveelection.bsky.social www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Quahog Museum: Ceramic soup tureen or cookie jar shaped like a quahog. This is the third one I’ve found, but this is the first one I’ve seen that’s pink.

"deciding the terminus of the bike path – as with adjusting beach parking or renaming the library or doing anything that involves the slightest bit of change in Narragansett – has elicited heated debate in town" www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

What I’ve been working on www.providencejournal.com/story/news/l...

Tired: American Canto Wired: Johnston Elegy Pawtucket Soliloquy Burrillville Villanelle Cranston Sonnet Coventry Ode Warwick Sestina

Frank C from @ecorinews.bsky.social and I hiked in the ‘new’ Buck Hill forest in Burrillville and were gobsmacked by the rampant illegal off-roading we saw. Tons of trash and destruction of ecologically and culturally sensitive spots. Read about it: ecori.org/illegal-off-...

Market Square, Providence, Rhode Island, During the Great September Gale, 1815 https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.733

From the estate of Providence Journal photographer Lawrence Millard of North Kingstown: ”Aerials,” circa September 1967. Scarborough Beach, Narragansett.

Westerly is looking for a corder of wood and weigher of coal, if anyone is interested