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Parlange to serve as URI s 12th President The Board of Trustees of the University of Rhode Island announced on Monday the selection of Professor Marc B. Parlange to serve as the University s 12th President He will succeed David M. Dooley, who joined URI in July 2009. Parlange’s appointment is effective August 1, 2021. He was born in Providence to parents who emigrated from France and Ireland. Parlange will leave Monash, a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, with an enrollment of more than 85,000 undergraduate and graduate students. URI has 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students, a budget of more than $800 million and four campuses. ....
The owner of popular Providence entertainment and nightlife establishments had a recent scare with COVID this past week, as his daughter, who was just accepted to Harvard, was also was diagnosed with the virus. ....
View Larger + Governor Dan McKee and Rhode Island Commerce Secretary Stefan Pryor announced a new grant program to assist small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will use $20 million of the nearly $1.25 billion in CARES Act funds from last spring to give qualifying businesses $5,000 grants. The first round of applications will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis beginning, Thursday, April 15, 2021, through Friday, April 30, 2021, at 5:00 p.m.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST Future rounds and expansions of this program are possible depending upon demand and availability of funds. ....
In the heated back and forth over the degree to which the new Georgia law makes it more difficult to vote, its most dangerous provision has not received the attention that it deserves. Simply put, the new law takes power away from the secretary of state a ....
View Larger + A drive-by shooting took place Monday night at the location of the memorial of Providence’s fourth homicide victim of the year. Police had reported that Isaias Boulos, 21, had been fatally shot early Monday morning in a parked car on Atlantic Avenue. According to police, a 29-year-old was shot several times, with non-life-threatening injuries. City’s 4th Homicide Victim of Year Lost Brother to Gun Violence Police confirmed that it was Boulos’ brother Christian Pena who was shot and killed in South Providence in 2018. Pena’s murder was investigated for possible ties to his involvement in the “Throwback for Days” gang. ....