A quick and easy, hot and spicy shrimp that will fire up your dinner. This sizzler is lean too, but it tastes so good you'll forget that it's healthy!
My recipes for pulled pork, BBQ chicken, chicken salad and home made salad dressing. Mmm...
I'm a full time dad and a full time cooking enthusiast.
Our communities' response to natural disaster shows the best of the best.
A few ideas to keep your kids from lamenting, "I'm bored!" while the hurricane blows through town
An introduction to The World Through My Lens, my own photography blog.
I remember my first day of Kindergarten like it was yesterday.
Road congestion will probably increase after gas station opens, making Metacom Avenue more dangerous to pedestrians.
The Bristol County market is in pretty good shape, so don't believe the hype.
What do we really want from our lives? Are we prepared to make the choices necessary to achieve our goals?
One-sided street signs bring confusion to visitors.
I am starting a petition to oust our town manager.
All but one member of the Warren Town Council stated that the Bristol County Water Authority's executive director needs to be replaced.
The town manager is still silent, but the town council president tells me they're going to do something.
Requiring a photo ID card at the polls is an exclusionary act that restricts the right to vote. It strikes most directly at the poor, at the elderly and at minorities.
Has our declining moral code influenced how we perceive justice? Have we streamlined our grief to clicks vs candles? Maybe.
I was shut out of town council meetings trying to get my questions answered, and I was illegally ejected from a meeting trying to exercise my right of freedom of speech.
Take some time to thank all of our volunteers who have helped us and our towns.
Patch ignored a wonderful program that teaches young people about our democratic system.
Still think your vote does not matter? Think again.
My siblings and I know very little our parents’ lives as adults. They are both gone now and so we cling to the stories told by their friends.
Audit report includes gems like this: "Time and a half pay while on vacation is a new concept to B&E and hard to justify."
The Patch is our Information Mall with a Food Court where we can discuss ideas, but some people ruin it with uninformed, off-the-cuff rhetoric.
Why is the town manager's evaluation private?
Aren't the salaries, benefits, etc. one of the prime reasons to privatize?
We have been working to find out what, if any, the emergency back-up plan is in case of disaster. Guess what? There is none!
The mentoring program at the middle school has helped more than 30 students this year alone to grow in their self-confidence.
It is amusing, but inspiring, to witness the children make observations only possible to see through the eyes of the innocent.
Our town manager must feel that having phone calls going to wrong departments is not worth his time to correct inaccuracies for the convenience of the citizens of Warren.
Love it or hate it, conflict is resolute.
There are many people with whom I would love to share what’s on my mind. I hold back though, because doing so could jeopardize goals and projects that have priority for me.
There has been more stress than I would care to admit to over the last nine months, and all the physical presentations of stress were happening to me. I knew I had to go back to the gym.
I feel that the town manager is not doing his job when it comes to Warren's road problems.
Thanks to a coyote's visit this norning, nature is never dull.
It seems like for every example of good learning I find, there are also a multitude of obstacles standing in the way.
Mt. Hope scores highly in a new list of the top high schools in Rhode Island, but those math scores don't look good.
I thought Easter was difficult. I thought her birthday was unbearable. Then comes Mother's Day to whack you upside the head, and tell you, you ain't seen nothing yet.
It seems such a simple thing, to wait to get home or where you are going to dispose of your trash. Am I wrong?
Even though Don has been gone for almost 10 years, he still shows up in little ways.
A brief review of 2nd Story Theatre's final comedy of the 2010-2011 season