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North Providence

American  

noun

  1. a town in NE Rhode Island.


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Andrea Capotosto, who works in finance at Brown’s School of Public Health, was putting up a Christmas tree in her North Providence home when she learned of the shooting.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025

The building was vacant at the time, and the fires were quickly extinguished by members of the North Providence Police and Fire departments, investigators said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 15, 2024

State Senate President Dominick Ruggerio, a long serving North Providence Democrat, is also expected to be reelected to another two-year term when the Senate convenes its session at Rhode Island College later Tuesday.

From Washington Times • Jan. 5, 2021

In 2011, three North Providence council members pled guilty to accepting bribes to green-light a supermarket development.

From MSNBC • Jun. 3, 2014

Pawtucket being the pioneer cotton manufacturing place in the North, Providence, which had come to virtually absorb the smaller city, took a great interest in the new mills of the South after the Civil War.

From The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Mitchell, Broadus

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