Three Nightclubs Face Hearings + Tennis Comes To Central Falls

Welcome to the Pawtucket Patch Daily — your quickest way to get caught up on the city's top news stories. I'm your host, Mary Serreze. I can be reached at mary.serreze@patch.com. Feel free to send me your news tips, thoughts, and ideas.

First, today's weather: Rain overnight. High: 78, low: 63.

Here are the top stories today in and around Pawtucket:

1. Three Pawtucket nightclubs will face disciplinary hearings before the city's licensing board after police described altercations and violations over two weekends in July. (Pawtucket Patch)
2. Central Falls is celebrating plans to build tennis courts so inner-city youth can learn the game. Mayor Maria Rivera and others hosted a ribbon-cutting. (WLNE-TV ABC6)
3. The planned tax sale of Rhode Island's tallest building was put off after the owner of the "Superman building" in Providence pledged to pay $450,000 in back taxes. (WJAR)
4. Governor Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Foundation will award another $150,000 to nonprofits fighting COVID-19. This time, recipients of the RI Gives Vax Challenge include the Elisha Project and the Blackstone Valley Advocacy Center. McKee said the challenge has delivered 20,000 shots since it was launched a month ago.
5. North Attleboro has detected the forever chemical known as PFAS in one of its drinking water sources, and customers are being alerted. Attleboro sent out a similar notice last week. Officials say it's not an emergency. (The Sun Chronicle)

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Today in and around Pawtucket

• The New Leaders Council Rhode Island, or NLRC, plans an info session and social at The Guild, 461 Main St., 6-8 p.m. (Facebook)
• The Rhode Island Philharmonic plans a free outdoor pops concert at Roger Williams Park in Providence. 7-9 p.m. (GoProvidence)

Pawtucket Patch Notebook

• Pawtucket Arts Collaborative: "PAC is pleased to publicize a retrospective exhibition by member Joan Hausrath at Gallery 175." (Facebook)

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About me: Maine native, UMass Amherst Regional Planning alum. Stick-shift driver, explorer. I believe in good government and the public's right to know. Interested in just about everything. I still like paper maps. I can be reached at mary.serreze@patch.com.