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May 21, 2025

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Taste of Italy, Deli & Caffe

Come indulge your appetites on some of the outstanding food at Taste of Italy on Atwood Avenue, including these dishes of Baked Scrod, Mediterranean Pasta, Chickpea Salad and Sausage and Rabi.

Sometimes, the best kept secrets are right there in plain view! Such is the case of Taste of Italy, a deli and caffe on Atwood Avenue in Johnston that even longtime residents of the city have …

Ember to Ash Cigar Lounge

The city of Johnston welcomes Ember to Ash Cigar Lounge on Greenville Avenue. Open seven days a week, this lounge is the perfect place to unwind at the end of the day (or any time in between!)

Ember to Ash, the newest cigar lounge in Johnston, is everything you expect (and want) from a momentary escape from the world. Think of soft comfortable chairs that you can just sink into and …

The Preserve at Briarcliffe

The Preserve at Briarcliffe is a warm, inviting retirement community located in Johnston. If you or a loved one is considering a new home, visit one of their apartments, including this studio apartment with its thoughtfully-planned bathroom and kitchenette.

The expression “Home is where the heart is” is an oft-repeated phrase that is both familiar and evocative to all who hear it. Whenever these words are uttered, they immediately evoke the …

Cranston Paint & Wallcovering

This familiar sight on Atwood Avenue, as well as these signature trucks, all remind home and business owners about Cranston Paint & Wallcovering – owned by Mike Sturdahl (left) and Bill McGuirk (right). Call them for your exterior & interior paint jobs!

For home and business owners throughout New England, there is no better find than a trustworthy, professional, and reliable painter and paint supplier for all their interior and exterior paint jobs. …

Briarcliffe

Call 401-944-2450 to schedule your personal tour of this close-knit community. Briarcliffe is a state-of-the-art, continuing care community of residences located on Old Pocasset Road in Johnston.

The year was 1963 and for many, the world was full of possibilities. The first woman made it to space, Martin Luther King gave his iconic “I have a dream” speech and the United …

Advantage Kitchens Baths Countertop Flooring

It has been said that you only get one chance to make a first impression, and nothing could be truer than when you walk into a kitchen or bathroom. That initial “wow” factor goes a …

Jain’s Laundry

The great and iconic French impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh is attributed with coining the phrase: “Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” These words …

Dreamland Learning Center

Dreamland Learning Center, a creative and cheerful childcare center on Hartford Avenue in Johnston, is a bright and welcoming place where learning is fun and where every space was designed to enrich …

The Preserve at Briarcliffe

The holidays may be behind us, but Old Man Winter is still busy treating us to some record low temperatures and windy, bone-chilling days that deter almost anyone from venturing outside for anything …

The Preserve at Briarcliffe

Well-known in the hospitality industry is the notion of a “sense of arrival.” Broadly defined, a “sense of arrival” is that special feeling a customer experiences during …

Tita’s Tailors and Cleaners

The City of Cranston officially welcomes Tita’s Tailors and Cleaners to its ever-evolving small business scene. Tita’s Tailors and Cleaners is a full-service tailor and cleaners …

Specialty Home Care Services, Inc.

There comes a time in life when our own needs, or the needs of our loved ones, exceed our own ability, time, and resources to meet them.  Perhaps that need is just for light housekeeping and …

Briarcliffe Gardens

When Jessie Jacavone and Ken Marandola, the founders of Security Solutions, pledge “we will get the task done right, on-time and on-budget,” you can be sure they are good for their word. …

The Preserve at Briarcliffe

There are times in life when you know you are at the right place at the right time. As we usher in a new year, many of us may be asking, are we indeed “at the right place, at the right …

Garden City Nail Spa

Located in a busy plaza on Sockanosset Cross Road is the sparkly new nail salon Garden City Nail Spa. This elegant and sophisticated spa officially opened its doors a few short weeks ago in …

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At Hunter’s Garage site, mixed-use plan gets initial OK

The Warwick Planning Board gave master-plan approval last Wednesday to the proposed development of two connected buildings with six residential units and 1,510 square feet of commercial space on the site of the former Hunter’s Garage in Pawtuxet.

The future of the former Hunter’s Garage property next to the bridge in Pawtuxet is a step closer to coming into focus with Planning Board approval last Wednesday night of a plan to build two …

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