About This Series ~ What You Read or Missed in the Providence Journal Recently.... [you might find these articles at www.projo.com if you missed them]
Saturday, June 23, 2007
- A1 ~ "Support for energy bill [in Congress] shows automakers losing clout"
- A5 ~ "Assembly highlights" ~ [Note what's NOT here. You wouldn't know from this page that the General Assembly did anything about the environment, energy, farming, land use, water, sustainability, and related concerns this year. Let's get these essential issues into next year's "Assembly highlights" ~ sk]
- F1 ~ "New vision for the Post Road [in North Kingstown]" "Goodbye, strip malls..."
- F1 ~ "Tockwotton [nursing home] plans to move" [East Providence building plans involve the Waterfront District Commission"
- F1 ~ "Cleanup update [of Global Waste Recycling site in Coventry] cancelled"
- F2 ~ Editorial "Coastal-insurance quandary"
- F3 ~ "It's the year of the mocking birds" by Ken Weber [It's always a delight to read his observations of the natural world ~ sk]
- F4 ~ "Subdivision descision [in Bristol, next to Junier Hill Cemetery] put off [due to questions about environmental impact]"
Sunday, June 24, 2007
- A13 ~ Summary of General Assembly activity ~ [Only one item of interest to The Providential Gardener is highlighted: "Polluters' fines." This would have affected the Tiverton cleanup problem for which Southern Union Co. is trying to avoid responsibility.
- B2 ~ Peter B. Lord's Environmental Journal
- "RI among top 10 states for Lyme disease"
- "Aquidneck land trust offers grants"
- "URI programs on roses, compost"
- "DEM to explain new septic rules [in Portsmouth and South Kingstown]"
- D6 ~ Editorial ~ "A battle line for sprawl" [in Exeter]
- D6 ~ Op Ed ~ "nothing 'experimental': Coastal wind farms: Europe 24, U.S. 0" by directors of Clean Power Now
- D7 ~ Op Ed ~ "Worst issues in Mideast are environmental" by Michael J. Caduto, co-author of Keepers of the Earth (www.p-e-a-c-e.net).
- G3 ~ "Neighborhood of the week: Narragansett Pier"
- J7 ~ "Torches, lanterns fan flames of backyard decor"
- J7 ~ "Clematis: If you can pronounce it, you can grow it"
- J8 ~ "15 ways to leave your garden . . . and go on that carefree vacation"
- J8 ~ Home and Garden Calendar lists events in the coming week and ongoing exhibits
- J9 ~ "Garden notes for June"
Monday, June 25, 2007
- A1 ~ "Watch the parking spots vanish [in Watch Hill]" [about coping with the consequences of development]
- A10 ~ "Car-choked village [Westerly/Watch Hill/Misquamicut] to give trolley a try"
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