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Yahoo
20-03-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Out of hospital, Senate President Ruggerio has yet to return to the State House
Senate President Dominick Ruggerio, left, shares a laugh with Sen. David Tikoian during his return to the Senate floor June 6, 2024. (Photo by Christopher Shea/Rhode Island Current) The wait continues for Senate President Dominick Ruggerio's return to the Rhode Island State House. Ruggerio, 76, missed Thursday's session. Greg Paré, a Senate spokesperson, confirmed Ruggerio would be absent in an email an hour before he was set to bang the gavel marking the start of the legislative session. He was initially expected to be back behind the Rhode Island Senate rostrum this week, after recovering from pneumonia. 'He just decided he's going to take another day at home,' Paré said in an interview Thursday afternoon. 'He's been through a lot.' Ruggerio has not set a new date for his return, instead 'taking it day by day,' Paré said. Ruggerio last appeared on the Senate floor on Feb. 11. Including Thursday, he will have missed nine out of 13 legislative sessions this year, some of which were held while he was in-patient, followed by a stay at the rehabilitation center, at Our Lady of Fatima Hospital in North Providence. Ruggerio was released from the rehabilitation center on March 12, but also missed the Senate's session that afternoon, and again on Tuesday, despite repeated reassurances by Paré that his recovery was going well. The Senate has been meeting weekly since January 7, increasing to biweekly at the beginning of March. Paré said Ruggerio 'sounded great' when the two spoke by phone Thursday morning. Ruggerio opted to skip Tuesday's session due to the 'limited Senate business' — the calendar included a dual celebration for St. Patrick's and St. Joseph's Day — Paré said in a text message. At that time, Ruggerio planned to return to the chamber on Thursday, Paré said. Ruggerio's multiple absences during the 2024 legislative session due to illness caused friction among Senate Democrats, including with his former majority leader, Sen. Ryan Pearson. After Ruggerio backed Sen. Valarie Lawson to replace Pearson as his second-in-command, Pearson challenged Ruggerio for the president role. Ruggerio held on to his seat in the November caucus, though nearly one-third of Senate Democrats sided with Pearson in the caucus, again voting 'present' rather than for Ruggerio on the first day of session on Jan. 7. Senate President Pro Tempore Hanna Gallo presided over the Senate on Thursday in Ruggerio's absence. SUBSCRIBE: GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX
Axios
20-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
New Orleans to make world's largest pasta bowl
New Orleanians can get a free pasta lunch Friday as part of the city's festivities for St. Joseph's Day. The big picture: The Italian American St. Joseph Society is making what it calls the world's largest bowl of pasta con la sarde at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. It will have 500 pounds of pasta topped with red gravy, sardines, anchovies, pine nuts and breadcrumbs, society president Peter Gilberti tells Axios. The society has been making the dish for years, and it usually feeds about 400 people with plenty of leftovers, he said. Zoom in: David Greco, owner of Mike's Deli and Arthur Avenue Caterers in the Bronx, is leading the cooking team again. He plans to start in the kitchen at 4:30am Friday. The 53rd annual pasta party starts at noon in the hotel's Churchill ballroom. It's a free event with music, wine and dancing. Zoom out: The society's annual parade rolls at 6pm Saturday. It includes a moving St. Joseph's altar. The parade starts at the Hilton and winds through the CDB and French Quarter before returning to the hotel. The procession has been altered due to French Quarter security concerns. Only walking participants — no vehicles — will parade on the Bourbon Street portion, Gilberti tells Axios. The Irish Channel St. Patrick's Day Parade has been rescheduled to 10am March 29. It was canceled March 16 due to severe weather.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Bakeries prepare thousands of zeppole for St. Joseph's Day
JOHNSTON, R.I. (WPRI) — Wednesday is St. Joseph's Day, and local Italian bakeries prepared for a boost in business as people pick up some zeppole to celebrate. Don DePetrillo is the owner of The Original Italian Bakery in Johnston, where they make a plethora of the classic Italian pastry for the holiday. 'As of yesterday, we had about 58,000, and we carry all the varieties, so last year we sold 66,000,' DePetrillo explained. 'This year, we're going to top that. We'll probably go to 75,000/80,000 this year. It just gets bigger and bigger every year.' STREET STORIES: In RI, you can always find zeppole on St. Joseph's Day According to DePetrillo, zeppole are crafted to resemble a carpentry plane that Saint Joseph was known to use. Soon after the Johnston bakery opened on Wednesday, there was a line out the door of customers waiting to buy zeppole. For DePetrillo, all the work crafting the sweet treats is worth it. 'I like doing it,' he said. 'When the customers are happy, I'm happy, which makes the business even better.' Download the and apps to get breaking news and weather alerts. Watch or with the new . Follow us on social media: Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- General
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Chicopee to raise Polish flag for St. Joseph's Day
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – On Wednesday, the city of Chicopee will raise the polish flag in honor of St. Joseph's Day. Chicopee police saved elderly resident from Bitcoin scheme St. Joseph's Day celebrates the Patron Saint of Poland, known in Western Christian traditions as the husband of the Virgin Mary and the legal father of Jesus. In the Polish tradition, families celebrate the day with a meatless feast, known as a 'festive fast' because it takes place during Lent. The flag raising will take place at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday at the Chicopee City Hall Flag Plaza on Springfield Street. WWLP-22News, an NBC affiliate, began broadcasting in March 1953 to provide local news, network, syndicated, and local programming to western Massachusetts. Watch the 22News Digital Edition weekdays at 4 p.m. on Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
15-03-2025
- Sport
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Utility bill revolt; Social Security anxiety; March Madness in RI: Top stories this week
Here are some of The Providence Journal's most-read stories for the week of March 9, supported by your subscriptions. Thursday marked the fifth anniversary of Rhode Island's descent into COVID lockdown as the novel coronavirus upended daily life in every way, shuttering businesses and schools, canceling or limiting social gatherings and ultimately killing more than 4,450 people. The Journal takes stock of what medical professionals learned from that experience that positions the state to handle the next pandemic; how the endurance of remote work has reshaped the labor market and hollowed out downtowns; and how well students have recovered from learning losses associated with the shutdown. For the first time in nine years, Providence will host eight of the top men's basketball teams in the country next week. Here's a look back at the last time the Big Dance came to town – in a perfect storm that collided with St. Patrick's Day revelry and a building trades convention. Want to bet on the games? Here's how. And we look back at the played in Providence. For that and more and sports news, go to . Speaking of St. Patrick's Day, here's how you can join in the fun, with parades today in Newport and tomorrow in West Warwick and Little Compton (where a testy interstate dispute about whether this event is really the world's shortest St. Patrick's Day parade is part of the show). Not to forget St. Joseph's Day on March 19, here's where to get your zeppole and how to vote for the best zeppole in Rhode Island. Voting in the first round bracket continues through 11:59 p.m. Sunday. Here are the week's top reads on A hearing Monday night in Warwick was supposed to be about proposals that would see a net decrease in energy bills for most Rhode Islanders, but it sure didn't feel like it. Beforehand, protesters rallied outside the offices of state utilities regulators to complain about Rhode Island Energy's prices, and during the standing-room-only hearing, speaker after speaker aimed criticism at the state's largest gas and electric utility. Joyce Fiore was one of several customers who brought their bills up to the podium to read off the skyrocketing numbers. Her electric bill jumped from $164 in December to $580 in February, she said. 'I've lived in Cranston for close to 50 years now, and I've never seen bills like this,' she told the two members of the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission who were present at the hearing. Read the full story to see what Rhode Island is proposing to bring relief from high utility bills Local news: 'I can't afford it anymore.' Rhode Islanders slam utility and high costs of energy Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, the ex-administrator of the Social Security Administration, said he knows why President Donald Trump is letting Elon Musk's minions at the Department of Government Efficiency "break" Social Security from the inside out – and he hopes people "wake up, rise up" before it's too late. Appearing with U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on a virtual "town hall" on Tuesday night, O'Malley ‒ who has predicted benefit interruptions within 90 days ‒ told the audience: "They're gutting it. They're breaking it from the inside to make it incapable of serving the American people who paid for it and who paid for the customer service. I do believe they want to break it so they can liquidate it, because they want those trust fund dollars ... the $2.7 trillion that is built up in that trust fund reserve, intentionally." The full story offers details about O'Malley's prediction of benefit interruptions and Whitehouse's proposed fix to indefinitely extend the solvency of Social Security. Government: Martin O'Malley joined Sheldon Whitehouse to raise the alarm on Social Security. Maybe Rhode Island's state auditors should take a cue from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and start loudly crowing about all the government waste they've found. It might get people to pay attention, or even just realize they exist. Last year, the Office of Internal Audit saved the state $3.7 million by finding a coding error that the Department of Human Services had overlooked. But most Rhode Islanders probably never heard about that. Or how about the fact that 1,640 people were still on Rhode Island's Medicaid rolls a year or more after their deaths? That's just one of the eyebrow-raising items on the long list of problems that the Office of the Auditor General (yes, there are two separate offices dedicated to audits) highlighted in the most recent report summarizing its annual review of the state's finances. Political Scene explores what each of the auditor offices do, whom they report to, and whether either one is truly independent and immune from political pressures. Political Scene: RI's two state auditor offices routinely find waste and problems. But is anyone listening? PROVIDENCE − Aiden Craft set the table. Mason Crain faked a shot and unselfishly surrendered the moment. And Frank Tillinghast graduates as a hero and a four-time hockey champion. All three Hendricken skaters touched the puck in the game-winning sequence in triple overtime against Prout. Crain sliced the puck through the slot, to Tillinghast on the right wing, and the senior didn't hesitate. Tillinghast guided the forehand shot and Hendricken, to its fourth straight boys hockey State Championship at Providence College's Schneider Arena. The, 3-2, triple overtime triumph is Hendricken's 11th title overall. The Journal's Jacob Rousseau breaks down the thrilling overtime win. High school sports: In 3rd overtime, Hendricken wins RIIL Boys Hockey State Championship. Here's how PROVIDENCE – Cracked sidewalks are an ordinary part of city life, but one local artist sees them as an opportunity to start dialogues about environmental threats to the community. Providence-based artist Linda Ford is an avid cyclist and walker who spends a lot of time outside. A few years ago, as she was learning more about pollution and contamination issues in Rhode Island, she started noticing how cracked sidewalks looked a bit like waterways and how relevant that felt to living in the Ocean State. 'New England is surrounded by water of all different kinds,' Ford said. 'I started to fill them with blue cement and became interested in them as these miniature riverscapes.' A grant allowed her to expand the project into a citywide public art installation that beautifies an eyesore while raising awareness of environmental issues. Good news: 'They might be a surprise': Why a Providence artist is turning sidewalk cracks into art To read the full stories, go to Find out how to subscribe here. This article originally appeared on The Providence Journal: Utility bill anger; Social Security fears; March Madness in Providence
