The Week That Was in East Providence: No Snow!

Not to tempt fate, but this is the first weekly update in some time in which there will be no talk of snow.

We started the week with a about an East Providence man who is taking courses at Rhode Island College to fulfill a lifelong dream of writing a book.

At Monday's City Council meeting, , but some Rumford residents to handle the lawsuit against TLA/Pond View and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.

When the school committee met Tuesday night, city leaders appeared to . The committee also took an initial vote to institute a new cold-weather policy at the city's elementary schools.

Also on Tuesday, news surfaced that an after police said they found her very intoxicated in the street, then found her 5-year-old daughter home along, with a bag of marijuana.

East Providence High School , when school leaders learned that the high school was one of three in the state to show significant improvement in reading and math on the NECAPs.

On Thursday, . And on Friday, on a tour that stopped at the .