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Education

2025 Barrington High School Graduate Receives Ocean State Media Foundation Scholarship

This is the eighth year Ocean State Media has awarded a college scholarship worth up to $60,000 over four years

July 3, 2025

Historian Jennifer Cromack holds a recently found, 178-year-old anti-slavery scroll at Grotonwood, the home mission of The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts, Thursday, June 26, 2025, in Groton, Mass.

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History

Lost No More: Rare 1847 Anti-Slavery Scroll Signed by 116 Ministers Unearthed in Massachusetts

Once thought lost to history, the powerful handwritten declaration by New England Baptist clergy resurfaces—shedding new light on religious resistance to slavery and a pivotal moment in the church’s past

July 3, 2025

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Michael Casey

Director Armando Rivera and Alexander Crespo-Rosario II (as Fausto) in rehearsal.

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Arts & Entertainment

Teatro en El Verano Explores the Ultimate Bargain in ‘¡Que Diablos! Fausto,’ a Bilingual ‘Doctor Faustus’

Imagine if you could be the greatest in the world at anything, but you’d have to sell your soul to do it. That’s the story of the show “¡Que Diablos! Fausto,” a bilingual production at Teatro en El Verano

July 3, 2025

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Luis Hernandez

A crane ship in Narragansett Bay, supporting construction of offshore wind turbines, is part of what had been a growing sector of Rhode Island’s economy now under threat.

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Climate & Environment

‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Could Leave New England Clean Energy Projects Blowing in the Wind

Rhode Island had been poised to become a hub for offshore wind, but the new domestic policy bill debated overnight in the U.S. House could put that work in jeopardy

July 3, 2025

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David Wright