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RI’s Giant Pumpkin Championship Oct. 12
The 20th annual Southern New England Giant Pumpkin Championship returns Saturday, Oct. 12 at Frerichs Farm in Warren, RI. Unloading of the biggest pumpkins grown in the area will begin at 9:30 a.m....
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It’s Walktober in The Last Green Valley
Farmers Market at the Nathan Hale Homestead It’s Walktober, a celebration of The Last Green Valley, in southern Massachusetts and eastern Connecticut, along the Rhode Island border. The 23rd edition...
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A weekend for wildflowers and Harvestival
If you love wildflowers, this is the perfect time to saunter along southern New England’s coast. Inland in Massachusetts, Tower Hill Botanic Garden is celebrating Harvestival in its gardens and...
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Janet Coit: ‘What I did this summer’
Janet Coit, director of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, wrote these loving memories of her summer among her state’s natural wonders. The essay has appeared in The Providence...
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Carter Preserve tells a great glacier and nature story
The Nature Conservancy’s Francis C. Carter Memorial Preserve in Charlestown, RI is a natural wonder. Encompassing 841 acres, this is the Rhode Island Chapter’s second largest nature preserve. It...
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Save #CT and #RI forests to save birds, scientist says
For the first time in 300 years, residents of Rhode Island and Connecticut are seeing old-growth trees, says Robert Craig, executive director of Bird Conservation Research, Inc., a non-profit group...
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Striped bass, hickory shad are taking flies in #RI
Richard Santos with a healthy school striper Striped bass and hickory shad have been hitting flies in the estuaries of Rhode Island, says fly-fishing guide Ed Lombardo. “We fished the Warren River just...
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New book, ‘Inland Fishes of Rhode Island,’ is a keeper
Twenty years in the making, Inland Fishes of Rhode Island by Alan D. Libby, with illustrations by Robert Jon Golder, is a beautiful book meant for everyone who loves wildlife and surprises. The...
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New bridge completes Grills trails in Westerly & Hopkinton #RI
Harvey Buford, left, and Ted Dionne complete a day’s work on the new bridge over Tomaquag Brook yesterday. A new bridge, connecting the Grills Sanctuary in Hopkinton RI to the Grills Preserve in...
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Take a walk to Hanging Rock in Richmond #RI
The round-trip walk to Hanging Rock is less than two miles, but it’s a pretty good work-out with some ups and downs and a couple of spots that demand mindfulness. The trails to Hanging Rock wind...
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