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National Night Out was a SUCCESS🎈✨ It surely was a fun-filled evening of community spirit, activities & more! I was happy to be able to spend my night connecting, celebrating & seeing everyone come together as neighbors! #NationalNightOut #CommunityStrong #FamilyFunNight #CoventryPride #LocalPolice

HUGE congratulations to the best of the best in Rhode Island!🎉 It’s been great to see all the signs & awards around town! Great job to all the local businesses & leaders recognized in this year’s 𝐑𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐈𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬! #BestofRI #RhodeIslandProud #SupportLocal

Had a great conversation with John Parente! Tune in @7:10am & @9:10am this morning on I-105.5FM & 1450AM to listen! 🎙️🗣️

Happy Monday☀️

Exciting news regarding the Flat River Reservoir, Johnson’s Pond Redevelopment Area!

Johnson’s Pond Redvelopment Project website is LIVE NOW where you can find more information, updates & meeting dates!
🖥️ Visit Johnsonspondrp.org

Happy 4th of July🇺🇸🌟 Wishing everyone a happy & safe holiday! #USA #freedom #fourthofjulyweekend #fireworksandfun

Spent my morning with Upper Dam Pond Conservation Association! Myself & fellow colleagues shared updates about the weed abatement that was recently done & we’re also talking at the town level of starting a Water Affairs Committee in order to better address the water quality of our town!

Congratulations to the Class of 2025!🎓👏🏻

Your hard work & dedication is something to be so proud of! Keep reaching higher - the future is bright & your community is cheering you on!🌟 #classof2025 #proudtown #newbeginnings #graduate

Proudly raising the flag high for Portugal!🇵🇹🙌🏻 Yesterday was a beautiful afternoon celebrating culture, history & unity at Coventry Town Hall’s flag raising ceremony! #portuguesemonth #flagraisingceremony #communityandculture #honoringheritage #diadeportugal

Sunshine, Flags & Pride🇺🇸

Today we honor the brave men & women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom. As we gather with family, friends & neighbors, let us remember that our community thrives because of their courage! #memorialday #honorandremember #thankyouheroes

Happy Memorial Day☀️⚓️

We have 2 upcoming public hearings!🗣️ These public hearings serve as the time for you to give feedback on the budget! See you there👋🏻

📆 Tuesday, April 29th @6:00pm
📆 Saturday, May 3rd @10:00am

Proposed & Approved Fiscal 2026 Budget

🔗 coventryri.gov/sites/covent...

🔗 coventryri.gov/sites/covent...

Great evening at the URI MPA end-of-semester celebration and Pi Alpha Alpha induction! Honored to be inducted. RI Secretary of State Gregg M. Amore gave a powerful talk about the crossroads in public service and the resilience needed. Feeling inspired as graduation on May 16th approaches!

What a great morning supporting ASFMS Unified!!! You can’t be in a bad mood when you attend a Unified event like this! Everyone claps for EVERYONE & that’s what being a good friend & member of the community is all about❣️

What a great afternoon I had, spending it with Dr. Perri Leviss’ Policy Formation Class at Rhode Island College! I spoke to the class about my personal experience in policy formation as a locally elected official in my role with the Coventry Town Council!

It’s that time of the week🗣️ Here is the agenda for tomorrow nights meeting! As always these meetings will be live streamed using the link below⬇️

See you there!

📆 Thursday, April 3rd, 2025
🕒 6:00pm
📍 Coventry Town Hall, 1670 Flat River Road
🎥 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Oklahoma includes 2020 election denial in social studies standards. How does that sit? Curriculum experts suggest that partisan framing within the subject can compromise students’ skill-building in analytical and critical thinking.

This is insane.

We have a town council meeting tomorrow night!
📆 Tuesday, March 25th, 2025
🕘 6:00pm
📍 Coventry Town Hall, 1670 Flat River Road
🎥 www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

How infuriating that Arkansas and Kansas are not pronounced the same at all.

I had the pleasure of attending the Rhode Island League of Cities & Towns Annual Convention today! What a great opportunity it was to participate in so many different workshops that gave myself & fellow colleagues different resources that I can bring back to OUR COMMUNITY🙌🏻

Town Council - YouTube

🔔Town Council Meetings happening tonight & tomorrow @6pm! These meetings are the first time we’re seeing budget proposals for the next fiscal year from department heads. These meetings are open to the public, you can find the livestream link below⬇️

www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Inside Communications Presented by Half Street Group: "Newsjacking", RI Gov Race Underway, Pivoting to Digital-First - Bartholomewtown Bill Bartholomew welcomes Half Street Group founder and president Mike Raia for Inside Communications.  In this month's episode, Raia offers expertise on the now-underway 2026 Rhode Island gubern...

NEW: @halfstreetgroup.bsky.social @mikeraia.bsky.social talks RI gov race opening season, "newsjacking" and much more btown.buzzsprout.com/163601/episo...

One of the most unbelievable television plot lines is that Ray Barone can support a family of 5 on only a sports writer salary while Deborah stays home with the kids.

Half Street Group is seeking to bring on a few paid, part-time interns for the Spring/Summer season! ☀️

Check out the positions descriptions to see if they might be a good fit for you or someone you know.

🟠 PR & Events Intern - lnkd.in/diQWwf_3

🟠 Digital & Social Media Intern - lnkd.in/dAeGkNA3

Neither party has been good at cultivating a bench - err-go, our last 3 Presidents being over the age of 70. Will be interesting to see what the party does with this opportunity.

At a higher level, the general public doesn't understand or want to accept that weather has indeed changed and our waste and stormwater infrastructure that is well over half a century old - along with our outdated state regulations - were just not built for this new era.

An effort to block non-citizens from voting could impact married women, too • Rhode Island Current A Republican-led effort to block non-citizens from voting could impact millions of American women and others who have changed their legal name.

"Show me in the law where it says they want to take away a married woman's right to vote."

People think they don't have to do their own fact checking and research anymore. Now we have to do deductive reasoning for them, too?

Long COVID Keeps Some Rhode Islanders From Returning to Normalcy 'I want to get better physically, but it's just so tough'

www.ripbs.org/news-culture... via Michelle San Miguel

Hendricks is really into Daylight Saving Time.

Costs of child care now outpace college tuition in 38 states, analysis finds • Rhode Island Current The cost of child care now exceeds the price of college tuition in 38 states, including Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia, according to a new analysis conducted by the Economic Policy Institu...

There's a lot of reasons why people are choosing to not have children and the birth rate is declining. Here's one of the big reasons.

How Trump and Vance May Have Put America First If Churchill Came To The White House During "The Blitz" #PresidentTrump #JDVance #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Churchill #London #Blitz #PoliticalCartoon