Antonia Noori Farzan
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Incredible. Rep. Joe McNamara is calling on the governor to combat tarrifs by creating a free trade zone in Rhode Island, using powers granted in the Royal Charter
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. did Google Streetview go for a ride in a Providence gondola?
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If “no one reads newspapers anymore” then how come people are always mad at me.
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I’m not sure that “Port of Providence” is the best name for a scented candle
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It is so!!! rude!!! to screen this in Boston before Providence. Might have turned me against the movie tbh.
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The controversial new wind turbines, seen from the Cliff Walk on a clear day
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Thank you to my phone for reminding me about the time I tried to give away a table on Craigslist and got this very normal response
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Married at 9, Block Island Ferry at noon. Thank you to @GNEErynDion and @KatieLandeck for the flowers 💗
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Oh you don’t “get” pizza strips? Should we have a party? Should we invite a bunch of people who just moved here from Boston and have the personality of drywall?.
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Teamsters say they’ve voted to authorize a strike at RISD
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Took the day off work and ran into my boss on the Block Island Ferry … I think this is what they call “Rhode Island problems”.
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I really don’t think we talk enough about the derangement of the Block Island ferry cocktail menu
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Finally did it
every day is another day that i get closer to attending stone wall building school in dummerston, vermont.
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I can’t believe I spent 11 years studying French in RI schools and never got one field trip to Woonsocket.
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If anyone knows the person who lives on the top floor of the Grace Church Apartments and grows massive sunflowers on their balcony…. please just tell them I’m a huge fan
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Dying at this Newport auction house’s reaction to seeing mid-century modern furniture
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If you are now wondering what would happen if a container ship from Quonset hit the Newport bridge, rest assured that I am too and am calling the relevant experts to find out.
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Seven Stars employees who unionized last year say they have secured their first contract. (Story from June on why they sought to form a union:
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thinking of starting a thread with all the vanity plates i see while driving around RI
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Huge news (at least for me personally) - there’s now a floating oyster bar in Newport harbor that will tie up at your mooring & shuck them for you. VHF channel 88!
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A Block Islander sent me this video of a fishing boat trying to leave on Monday
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a cool thing to do while facebook stalking a random acquaintance from high school is to accidentally tag yourself as their baby.
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If the RI State Archives sold reproductions of the cool maps and stuff in their collection, I would personally spend so much money on prints that it would probably pay for the new building. Just a thought.
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Going to need Boston to fix its housing crisis so that the world’s most boring people will stop moving down here.
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This writer’s firsthand account of being homeless over the winter in Westerly & SK is a must-read
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OK but can we talk about how this perfectly captures the first warm spring day at liberal arts college in the 2000s - the pale legs, the leafless trees, the the unflattering flip flops, the awkward dancing (debating whether to dig up my pics from Passion Pit at Hamilton in 2010).
MGMT perform an early version of "Kids" at Wesleyan University (2003)
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Just learned about Nunavut’s old license plates…what if we did this but with a clam…
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Growing up in Newport there were few things as mysterious as the “6-10 connector”… they always talked about it on Cat Country 98.1 but I never knew what it was… it felt as distant and exotic as the Azores and I was really disappointed when I drove on it for the first time at 23.
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For the past couple of months I’ve been following people who go out looking for the old roads that were used hundreds of years ago and often have virtually disappeared — but may still be found on paper. Here’s the story:
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The best thing about the Southern New England foraging FB group is how everytime someone posts about clamming, the Massachusetts people are like YoU NeEd A LiCeNsE FoR ThAt and the Rhode Islanders all jump in and are like hahahahhaha no we don’t, losers.
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The “OK grandma let’s get you to bed” meme actually just depicts me walking down Thayer Street and reminiscing about what used to be where.
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Sorry I can't talk I'm completing my City of Central Falls Pigeon License Application
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I’d rather die in Rhode Island than live any place else
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“Wow, a book on the houses of Providence from 1919, this sounds great!”. Five minutes in…
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“He told me that on primary night, he even got calls from people in Liberia who'd heard Gabe Amo had won – they were following Rhode Island’s CD1 election during Liberia’s early-morning hours.”. @markpatinkin with the column I’ve been dying to read:
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Things I learned: To be a pilot (the boat kind) in RI, you have to pass a test that involves drawing a detailed map of Narragansett Bay from memory
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Learning that the British children’s books I grew up with were illustrated by a guy in Rhode Island who takes inspiration from Second Beach has reaffirmed my belief that this is the center of the universe, thank you @markpatinkin
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Once again plagued by the memory of the time the cashier at a Portuguese market in New Bedford asked if I was Portuguese and I for some reason felt compelled to respond “No, I’m just a fan”.
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Wish we could have a Rhode Island-specific Google that would understand that I would never voluntarily seek out information about Scituate, MA or Middletown, CT. And don't get me started on Warwick, NY!!!.
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Some of you don't fall asleep at night envisioning how you'd get around the state using small-to-midsize watercraft in the case of a gasoline shortage or apocalyptic levels of flooding. and it shows!.
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Acquired some zeppoles in the parking lot of the Wendy’s on Bald Hill Road
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South Kingstown wants to mandate that dispensaries "take on the architectural vernacular of traditional coastal New England"
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Last 5 minutes of the Independent Man and people are still trickling in and lining up for photos. Kids are sliding down the marble steps & I just heard a mom yell “You are at the State House!!” at her football-wielding child. It’s all very heartwarming.
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my first @projo story is about a very large ship that turns out to be owned by a cult-like group and whose captain can't say for sure if slavery is good or not
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Wrote about an underrated development from last month's primary: Cherie Cruz (@ConcernedRIer), a former teen mom who was pushed out of school in eighth grade & haunted by a felony drug charge for decades, is poised to be Pawtucket's new representative.
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I love working at a newspaper because periodically strangers will decide to escalate random personal feuds by forwarding me the entire email chain, with zero context/explanation. I have never gotten a story out of it but always enjoy catching up on the drama!.
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I will go to my grave reminding people from Massachusetts that Rhode Island is a true land of freedom, where each resident has the right to harvest up to one peck of clams per day.
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For several years now I have maintained a secret guide to RI beaches in a Google Doc that is only shared with a few friends. But I am now giving away some of those secrets in the newspaper… so you should probably subscribe
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This doesn’t go far enough, we need a quahogger parade. A quahog festival. A teen named Miss RI Quahog Queen.
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Annoying everyone around me by referring to the seafood market as the “clam dealership”.
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Nothing stirs my heart like in fall when dusk settles on the white steeples & brick factories of a New England town.
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Making a list of some of the weirdest locations for historic cemeteries in RI. Anything I should add? (Yes I know the cemeteries were there before the other stuff, that’s the point.)
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On the plus side I DID get a spreadsheet that contains every vanity plate in Rhode Island
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Things you see in Newport harbor: A replica of a Viking ship being loaded onto a massive transport vessel for its trip to Norway
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Good morning everyone, it’s a beautiful day to read my story about how activists are scouring old maps and digging up archival evidence that may hold the key to opening up parts of Westerly’s shoreline where the public has been shut out
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Most Rhode Island thing I've seen in a while is the guy giving away clams he dug in Prudence Island in the neighborhood Buy Nothing group.
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Truly cannot understand why some of you watch "television" at night when you could be watching PUBLIC MEETINGS.
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Attempting to get public records from rural fire departments has been. eye-opening
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PVD Fest coinciding with Gaspee Days. a real "choose your fighter" moment. .
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One of the great things about pizza strips is they’re available at 7:30 am.
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I will be declining all future invitations to speak on panels unless I am given this podium.
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This is what the founders envisioned when they created the New England town meeting
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If you have power but are stuck at home. it's a GREAT time to read my story on the changing face of Rhode Island's ethnic social clubs
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Inspired by a discussion with @Miguel_de_RI, I am making a list of all the high-water mark plaques found around RI (from hurricanes, floods, etc.) Will post the ones that I have so far in the next week. Please tell me what I'm missing!
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Did not know this: “Providence possessed no less than seven octagonal homes, more than any other American town is known to have had.”
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I am always grateful when people are willing to explain things to me, which makes it possible for me to do my job. However, the other day a man felt the need to tell me what a quahog is, and that was deeply offensive!!!.
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Do what you love (reading 183-page inventories of Rhode Island commercial port infrastructure) and you'll never work a day in your life.
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Remember the Pokémon Go craze? Well here’s something even better: Going on weird side quests to find the historic cemeteries hidden behind strip malls while you’re out running errands
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Didn’t have room for this in the story, but two people who are being housed at the hotel mentioned (with zero prompting) that they were really impressed that someone running for governor was sleeping outside as a protest. Both had done winters in tents.
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Woonsocket's city council will vote tonight on a proposal to use the first installment of ARPA funds for a skating rink and ergonomic chairs for the city council chambers. Residents had said their top priority was housing.
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If you want to read 4,000 words about the drama going on with oyster farms, I have good news for you
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Checking in on the iced coffee that I left in my car overnight
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Time to tweet about losing my blue checkmark just to make sure that everyone knows that I had one.
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Smugly noting which neighbors have put out their trash for Monday pickup, revealing ignorance of the customs of this land.
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