For the past week or so, there has been a string of caution tape between two cones in front of a house on Cumberland St. Next door: a vacant lot, and next to that, a house that has had the same tape and some chain link...
Category - Rumor
Matthew CoolidgeCity Council moves to politicize proposed roads bond
Dean Street re-construction in 2009. The City of Providence proposes a $40b bond to finance repairs to 62 miles of roads and sidewalks in the City. As reported by Ian Donnis on RINPR, the City Council is meeting tonight...
Jef NickersonRumor: tree removal?
July 6, 2011 – 2pm: We are pulling this story for 24 hours. Waiting on a response from the city. In 2004, the City passed a regulation in its Zoning Ordinance (Sec. 425.1, “Removal of Significant...
Greater City ProvidenceRumor: RISD to demolish Farnum Hall
Image from Google StreetView This post is marked as a rumor because I have not been able to independently verify it yet, but it is not a surprising development. ArtInRuins posted the info on their Facebook page the...
Rumor: “The Hub” to the Arcade?
Photo by Jef Nickerson We don’t often deal in rumors around here, but this one is too good to let pass. A member of UrbanPlanet UrbanPlanet posted that they had heard that representatives from The Hub were coming...
Taqueriagate
OMG y’all! Did you hear about the dust up between AS220 and Taqueria Pacifica? No? You been under a rock or something? I first saw one of my friends post about it on Faceplace, then it showed up on Daily Dose and...
RUMOR du jour
This is a rumor. We have not heard anything on this from anyone directly involved, only rumors and speculation on the streets of Providence. This is posted for comment and speculation and should not be taken as a...
Rumormill: J&W to ProJo?
Ian Donnis on his Not For Nothing blog drops a little rumor in his first of a series of posts on the News Apocalypse. Btw, a ProJo source called me yesterday, confident in the belief that J+W had bought the Journal...
