Tag: Donald R. Grebien
Healthy Héroes wellness program expands in 2023
PROVIDENCE – Healthy Héroes, an after-school program designed to help children and their families develop healthy exercise and nutrition habits, is expanding to more...
Pawtucket green-lights $280K purchase of park land by JK Equities, clearing...
PAWTUCKET – The city recently announced its decision to sell park land at 94 Moshassuck St. to JK Equities LLC for $280,000, while still...
In Pawtucket, a feeling of déjà vu with Tidewater Landing?
Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien says the merits of the financially troubled Tidewater Landing project should be enough to persuade the R.I. Commerce Corp....
McKee must lead on deal for Tidewater
Pawtucket Mayor Donald R. Grebien is right to blame the departure of the Pawtucket Red Sox for Worcester, Mass., in 2020 on a lack...
Ready to spend: R.I. cities, towns have differing ideas about how...
The historic Conimicut Shoal Lighthouse at the mouth of the Providence River is far from being the shining beacon it once was, but Warwick...
Five Questions With: Donald R. Grebien
Pawtucket is undergoing some major changes when it comes to real estate development, and the city government, led by Mayor Donald R. Grebien, is...
Rhode Island adds 130 beds, quarantine facility for homeless
PROVIDENCE (AP) – Rhode Island is funding an additional 130 emergency shelter beds and reopening a COVID-19 quarantine facility for people dealing with homelessness,...
Pawtucket acquiring properties to construct affordable housing units
PAWTUCKET – After consulting with city residents about how the community should spend federal COVID-19 relief funding, the administration of Mayor Donald R. Grebien...
Industrial area on cusp of revival in Pawtucket
When Eric DaRosa’s family opened North East Knitting Inc. on Conant Street in Pawtucket, the neighborhood was in rough shape.
Many of the historic mill...
Vicente’s Supermarket to open in former Ocean State Job Lot
PAWTUCKET – A vacant retail store is being renovated for Vicente’s Supermarket, a family-owned market that features Portuguese, Cape Verdean, Haitian, Central American and...
