Facing pressure from business community, municipal leaders eager to end emergency declaration

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NORTH PROVIDENCE MAYOR Charles Lombardi said that municipal leaders around the state have felt pressure from the business community to reopen. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO
PROVIDENCE – One year after former Gov. Gina M. Raimondo declared a state of disaster emergency over the COVID-19 pandemic, some have grown weary of the seemingly everlasting crisis and are pushing to lift the declaration and ease restrictions. The state emergency declaration, which has been renewed on a monthly basis since its March 9…

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