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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 hardest hit communities were Johnston and Scituate, with less damage in North Providence, Cumberland an Providence, she said.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2023

Ruggerio’s fellow senators on Thursday unanimously elected the North Providence Democrat and the chamber’s longest-serving member to be the new Senate president.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 26, 2017

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 Broadus Mitchell

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