Monday, April 12, 2021
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Paul “The Baitman” Bettencourt, 80, of Pawtucket, passed away peacefully at home with family by his side on Saturday, April 10, 2021. He was the beloved husband of Barbara R. (Stuart) Bettencourt for forty-three years.
Born in Providence, Paul was one of twenty-one children of the late John and Emelia (Pacheco) Bettencourt. He resided the majority of his adult life in Pawtucket.
Paul was a United States Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam Era and went on to a lifelong career in the commercial fishing industry, where he gained the nickname and call sign, “The Baitman”.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
The SARS-CoV-2 virus binds to and enters human cells using its “spike protein”. Vaccines are designed to generate antibodies that bind to the virus’s spike protein and interfere with its ability to infect our cells. Some of the emerging mutations being found in coronavirus variants result in slightly different shaped “spikes”.
Previous laboratory studies have found that the antibodies generated either by vaccines or in people who have previously had COVID infections do not bind as tightly to the spikes on some coronavirus variants, and therefore are less effective at neutralizing the variant viruses. Prior to this study, it was not known if this reduction in binding affinity and neutralization would also reduce the effectiveness of vaccines in real-world use.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
Sunday, April 11, 2021
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Antonio Tony Caprio, Jr., 86, of Cranston, Rhode Island, passed away peacefully on April 10, 2021. Born in Providence, he was the son of the late Antonio and Filomena (Dello Iacono) Caprio.
In high school, he excelled in sports. He played football for the U.S. Army team when stationed in Germany during the Korean War.
While serving as a Providence Police Officer, he was decorated for heroism for saving the lives of two children.
He attended Providence College, earning his bachelor’s degree and later a master’s degree in Special Education. After working as a teacher in the Providence School Department he became Executive Director of the John E. Fogarty Center for children with developmental disabilities. He then obtained a position as director of the Neighborhood Youth Corps, an organization that employed thousands of teenagers during the summer months.
Bill McGrath, RI Country Music Hall of Fame, PHOTO: FB
Bill McGrath, one of the movers and shakers in Rhode Island’s music world, has passed away. He was a member of the RI Country Music Hall of Fame.
He established Bill McGrath s Music Series, was the performance director at Rising, was a former Vice President at Rhode Island Country Horizons, and was a former Vice President at the Country Music Association of Rhode Island.
He was an influence on hundreds of Rhode Island musicians and one of the biggest supporters of emerging artists.
Award-winning RI musician Nate Cozzolino took to social media to pay tribute to McGrath, writing, “Heartbroken to hear of the passing of my good friend Bill McGrath. Honestly don’t know what to say.That he was an ardent advocate of the RI music scene doesn’t even begin to cover it. This is the caliber of man who gave me, Wesley Forsyth and Ron Tibbetts our first-ever gig as The Ghost Notes, some relative nobodies that had a sound that
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I guess you might say it was vaudeville in some way. A friend and I were discussing the ‘peep’ machines we once frequented at Crescent Park’s penny arcade. We called them ‘peep ‘machines because peep meant naughty, and that’s what we wanted.
I loved Crescent Park. It was a bustling, old-time amusement park on the shores of Narragansett Bay in Riverside, Rhode Island and operated for 93 years from 1886 until 1979.
The park featured a large midway full of amusement rides, games, and food stands. At one end was the famous Alhambra Ballroom, where many big bands played in the 1930s and 40s. At the other end, on a bluff overlooking beautiful Narragansett Bay, was the world-famous Shore Dinner Hall which could seat two thousand people at one time. The Rhode Island shore dinner that made the hall famous included lobster, Rhode Island clam chowder, clam cakes, fish, corn, and all the trimmings.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLO