For the birds: The debate over Gould Island's future and what it means for nesting birds
Waterbirds have seen a resurgence thanks to Gould Island's private nature, but efforts to open the island to recreation has ...
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Just My Opinion: Rhode Island’s Nathaniel Greene among those buried in Savannah’s historic cemeteries
While planning a trip to Savannah, Georgia to visit my daughter, Ryan Belmore, WUN publisher, and I mused about possible ...
Rhode Island secures $1 million for America 250; other states have raised $20 million
As Rhode Island gets ready for America's 250th birthday, some wonder whether we're investing enough into the tourism ...
Baseball great Ted Williams inspired university statue in Rhode Island
With no portraits of Rhode Island theologian Roger Williams to go by, sculptor based image on the Splendid Splinter ...
It's time to go back to school – and we mean way back – to find RI's oldest schools
According to the New England Historical Society, Rhode Island's oldest high school can be traced back to 1800, when Rhode ...
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Michele Gallagher: Women in Business Then & Now: Colonial-era table settings in Rhode Island
Fine Linens, Silver, Blown Glass, Ceramics, Candles, Furniture and Textiles Many of the things that fill our houses today also filled the homes of colonial Rhode Islanders, except in their case, they ...
No need for a compass. Here's why some RI towns have directions in their names
While many of the Ocean State’s regional names are a nod to Narragansett Indian Tribe words, others came from English ...
Mystified by how local government works in RI? Here's how the pieces fit together
The mechanics of local government baffle many people who consider themselves otherwise well informed. We can help.
For Black people, the Revolution was full of paradoxes
There were Black soldiers fighting for the British. But others went to war for the colonists — who compared their own plight ...
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Rhode Island School of Design shuts down students’ pro-Palestine exhibition
The exhibition, originally staged in a publicly accessible café, will reopen in a building that is not open to the public ...