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BEATING A PATH: Providence Public Library Executive Director Jack Martin says foot traffic at the community hub is way up since a $28.5 million renovation was completed in 2020. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS
BEATING A PATH: Providence Public Library Executive Director Jack Martin says foot traffic at the community hub is way up since a $28.5 million renovation was completed in 2020. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

A $28.5 million modernization of the Providence Public Library has, by all accounts, been a success, despite being completed at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We actually flourished” during the pandemic, with thousands of people remotely tapping into a wide variety of workforce training programs, Executive Director Jack Martin said in this week’s cover

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