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🛍️ With the gift-giving season finally here, there will be lots of opportunities to shop locally. We’re highlighting a few events that feature local crafts and merchants along with a lot more happening around Rhode Island this weekend. Read More - > Six Picks Events: What’s Up in RI this weekend (November 17-20)
✍️ Middletown Town Councilwoman Barbara VonVillas is weighing in on regionalization → Take my word for it – School Regionalization is not dead, it is just waiting for a remake
🏦 People’s Credit Union is inviting the community to be a part of this history by contributing items to the capsule and will be collecting items through December 31, 2022. Read More → People’s Credit Union invites the community to contribute to its Centennial Time Capsule
🏆 Alexander Rinaldi, a mechanical engineer in the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport’s Sensors and Sonars Systems Department, recently won the 2021 American Society of Naval Engineers Rosenblatt Young Naval Engineer Award.
📰 Gannett, the parent company of Newport Daily News, Providence Journal and 200+ other publications, is planning another round of news layoffs at the beginning of December.
🌎 ecoRI News reports that there’s no room for doom and gloom in climate talks.
👏 The Town of Middletown shares on its website that the Middletown High football team took time out this week from practicing for Saturday's Division III championship game by distributing turkeys and sides to the needy as part of Bob's Big Give annual Thanksgiving Blitz. Good work, Islanders!
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