It’s not every day an angry crowd shuts down a town council meeting. But it’s happened more than once in East Greenwich, a well-off suburb not known as…
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New England Researchers Race To Turn Seaweed Into Biofuel
For the last 10 years, scientists all over the world have been racing to figure out how to convert massive quantities of seaweed into biofuel. UConn…
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Live Free? Die? Decades-Old Fight Over NH Motto To Get Supreme Court Shout-Out
George and Maxine Maynard have what you might call a complicated relationship with New Hampshire’s state motto.
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Medical Community Relieved Residents Have A Place To Go After Memorial Hospital Closure
Care New England’s plan to relocate Brown University’s medical residency program to Kent Hospital in Warwick has some in the medical community breathing…
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Celebrity Turkey That Once United A New England Town, Now Has It Divided
Take a drive through Old Wethersfield, CT and he’s hard to miss. Kevin, the wild Old Wethersfield turkey, puffs with personality. So much in fact that…
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Brown University Historian On Martin Luther’s Legacy And The Reformation
Protestant churches are celebrating the 500 th anniversary of the Reformation this year. The 16 th Century movement sparked by Martin Luther split the…
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Scott MacKay Commentary: Let’s Expand National Service Opportunities
In a nation divided along partisan political lines, it can feel like few things still bring people together. RIPR political analyst Scott MacKay has an…
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This I Believe New England: Conflict and Loss
Life is full of contradictions and inconsistencies, often in those moments when we yearn for clarity. As the author Scott Turow noted about our efforts…
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Remembering Federal Magistrate Jacob Hagopian
Federal Magistrate Jacob Hagopian of the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island has died, according to a spokesman for the court. He was 90.
