CUMBERLAND – Various groups, including the Blackstone River Watershed Council/Friends of the Blackstone, the National Park Service, and the Narragansett Indian Tribe, are opposing development of a hydroelectric facility at
“I think the tribes have preserved through so many terrible eras of our country,” she said. “Any symbolism, I hope it goes beyond that, we all live in this country together.”
4/6/2021
National Park Service hopes to attract more tourists to Slater Mill
The National Park Service officially owns the Old Slater Mill National Historic Landmark District in Pawtucket after a property transfer was completed last week. (Breeze photo by
Melanie Thibeault )
PAWTUCKET – It’s official: The National Park Service is now in control of the Old Slater Mill National Historic Landmark District in Pawtucket after a transfer of the property was completed last week, and NPS leaders say they’re excited to begin drawing more tourists to the area.
With the transfer from the nonprofit Old Slater Mill Association, the property is now officially part of the Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park, and the NPS will now own and operate the three historic buildings on the property, including the 1793 Old Slater Mill, the 1810 Wilkinson Mill, and the 1758 Sylvanus Brown House. Also included in the transfer are the approximately 3 acres of land surrounding the struc
Expensive and Painful Cyber Attacks
Right now it is Brown University in the past, it has been small towns in RI and hospital groups.
The cyberattack has forced the school to shut some systems down in an event that Brown is calling an “utmost priority.”
Jack Wrenn, a fifth-year doctoral candidate, said that official information was still “frustratingly scant” as of Wednesday night.
Wrenn provided a timeline as to what he understood transpired, and when the university community was notified.
“Systems appear to have gone down at 7:19 a.m. [on Tuesday],” said Wrenn. “At 7:24 a.m., Computing & Information Services (CIS) announced that they were experiencing a major outage of services running in the Brown datacenter.