🌱 Patch AM: How a Route 146 near-miss is prompting stricter work-zone warnings

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• How a Route 146 near-miss is prompting stricter work-zone warnings

Also on today's calendar: Liberty Tree Planting: Town of North Smithfield and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Mostly cloudy with a shower, with a high of 47 and low of 38 degrees.
• Thursday: Mostly cloudy, temps: high: 65, low: 38.
• Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 60 and low of 37 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Rhode Island Department of Transportation urges drivers to protect crews in work zones (turnto10.com) — State transportation officials are using a recent Route 146 work-zone crash in North Smithfield to urge drivers to slow down and move over for road crews. They’re highlighting hundreds of work-zone crashes statewide in 2025 and reminding motorists about Rhode Island’s “move over” law, stressing reduced speed, fewer distractions, and extra caution as construction season ramps up.    

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📸 Around North Smithfield

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🗓 Upcoming Events in North Smithfield

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday April 25

• The Witch Market (April 25 + 26, 2026) North Smithfield, RI
  Wide World of Indoor Sports, 621 Pound Hill Rd #200, North Smithfield
  12:00 pm

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Other local events

Wednesday April 22

• North Smithfield Sewer Commission Meeting
  North Smithfield, RI Calendar , 83 Greene Street , North Smithfield
  7:00 pm

Saturday April 25

• Liberty Tree Planting: Town of North Smithfield
  North Smithfield Town Hall , 83 Greene St , North Smithfield
  2:00 pm

Saturday May 2

• Spring Artisan Fair at Beef Barn
  Beef Barn , 200 Industrial Dr , North Smithfield
  10:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday April 25

• Rhode Home Rescue
  Rumford Pet , 2000 Mendon Rd , Cumberland
  10:00 am
• Woonsocket Historical Society Open House
  Woonsocket Historical , 42 S Main St , Woonsocket
  12:00 pm
• Funny Women of a Certain Age
  Stadium Theatre , 28 Monument Square , Woonsocket
  7:30 pm

Wednesday April 29

• Lincoln School Girls Varsity Lacrosse @ Cumberland
  2600 Mendon Rd , Cumberland
  9:30 pm

Friday May 1

• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
  Stadium Theatre , 28 Monument Square , Woonsocket
  7:30 pm

Saturday May 2

• Circuit Circus Workshop - Series of 3
  OCYL: Mayor's Office of Children, Youth and Learning , 1464 Diamond Hill Rd #2 , Cumberland
  10:00 am
• Circuit Circus (5/2)
  OCYL: Mayor's Office of Children, Youth and Learning , 1464 Diamond Hill Rd #2 , Cumberland
  10:00 am

Saturday May 9

• Creation Lab - 5/9
  OCYL: Mayor's Office of Children, Youth and Learning , 1464 Diamond Hill Rd #2 , Cumberland
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Lowe's Companies, Inc. posted a job opening for Seasonal Receiver Stocker Days in North Smithfield. Apply here.
• Texas Roadhouse posted a job opening for Assistant Kitchen Manager in North Smithfield. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near North Smithfield here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Woonsocket

• MORTGAGEE'S SALE 104 Jenckes Street Woonsocket, Rhode Island The premises (woonsocketcall.com)
• NBC 10 I-Team: Uneven progress in R.I. as chronic absenteeism declines (turnto10.com)
• Woonsocket couple killed in I-95 south crash (wpri.com)

Smithfield

• Presenting the Week 4 Rhode Island High School Baseball Power Rankings (providencejournal.com)

Johnston

• Johnston Man Sentenced To 6 1/2 Years In Prison For Cocaine And Fentanyl Conspiracy: Feds (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)Got a good riddle for PatchAM? Submit it here!

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