Ciara Meyer is a Senior Staff Writer covering the Beyond Brown beat. She is from Saratoga Springs, New York and plans on concentrating in Statistics and English nonfiction. In her free time, she loves scrapbooking and building lego flowers.
About 40 protesters from Jewish Voice for Peace Rhode Island gathered in front of Senator Jack Reed’s (D-R.I.) Providence office at 8 a.m. Thursday to demand that he call for a ceasefire in Gaza, stop supporting military aid for Israel and restore funding for humanitarian aid organizations like the ...
On Wednesday night, community members, academics and politicians gathered at the School of Public Health to discuss vehicle noise in Providence.
After the City announced plans to remove the South Water Street bike lane in early April, City Councilor John Goncalves ’13 MA ’15 (Ward-1) introduced an ordinance that would require the City Council to authorize the removal of any bike lanes within the city. At a City Council meeting this Thursday, ...
Content warning: This article includes mentions of drug use, overdose and deaths from overdose.
Since March, the city has considered temporarily closing the South Water Street bike lane to alleviate traffic congestion from the Washington Bridge closure. On April 3, the City formally unveiled the bike lane removal proposal alongside other traffic mitigation plans.
This article is part of an Earth Month series exploring environmental issues, climate initiatives and community stakeholders throughout Providence and Rhode Island.
This Wednesday, the Providence Public School Board unanimously passed a resolution calling on the Providence Public School District and the Rhode Island Department of Education to halt the decision to close 360 High School and merge it under the Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex’s new Life Sciences ...
Since the beginning of his campaign, Mayor Brett Smiley has targeted noise violations. Now, Smiley is pushing for acoustic cameras across Providence to address vehicles that violate the city’s noise ordinance.
On March 1, the Providence Public School District formally notified 367 teachers that they would be displaced for the coming school year, meaning that the teachers will need to find another placement in the school district. In a letter shared with The Herald, Deputy Superintendent Zack Scott informed ...
Two weeks ago, Rhode Island School of Design staff installed a metal structure over an air vent next to 2 College St., a site where an unhoused woman usually sleeps. On Feb. 22, Waverly Huang, a RISD sophomore, started a petition to have the grate removed, which amassed over 1,000 signatures. A day ...
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