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What is it allowed to do?
Pave sidewalks from Westerly to Woonsocket? Build a brand new rec center in every community? Build a well because, well, the town needs a new well?
Or take Rhode Island s share of the state and local dollars in President
Joe Biden s American Rescue Plan and invest big chunks of it in one of more really BIG ideas?
There s uncertainty right now about how these federal dollars can be used, but the Twitterverse is already bubbling with ideas: How about earmarking some $ to promote fitness & activity in RI youth who have been excessively sedentary during COVID-19? tweeted sports medicine Dr.
Emergency room visits for kids are down during the pandemic. But thatâs not entirely good news
Behind the low numbers of broken bones and bouts of the flu is a darker reality: the profound isolation and inactivity that children have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic
By Brian Amaral Globe Staff,Updated April 9, 2021, 5:48 p.m.
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Dr. Susan Duffy, MD, a pediatric emergency medicine physician at Hasbro Children s Hospital, poses for a photo in the hospital s healing garden in Providence, R.I., on April 9, 2021. The hospital has seen a decrease in ER visits during the COVID-19 pandemic.Matthew Healey/Matthew Healey for The Boston Globe