🌱 RI Has Big Plans For ARPA Funds + Underground Blasts

Happy Saturday, Providence! Here's everything you need to know to get this day started. Here's what's going on in Providence today.

First, today's weather:

Partly sunny, windy and cold. High: 41 Low: 24.

Here are the top stories today in Providence:

1. Affordable housing, a full-time harbormaster, and an ice rink are just some of the things that cities and towns in Rhode Island have proposed paying for with American Rescue Plan Act funds. Providence is getting the largest slice with more than $166 million. Nearly every town that has started spending the money or is making plans to do so has stated their top priorities include infrastructure projects. (Westport News)
2. Streets were shut down and police surrounded the area of Dyer and Clifford Streets shortly before 11 a.m. According to National Grid, on Thursday morning, a secondary cable failure underground led to two manholes being blasted upwards. One eyewitness recorded flames spewing out of one of the manholes. (WPRI.com)
3. A Providence woman is recovering after her house went up in flames on Thanksgiving night. (WPRI.com)
4. A woman was reportedly hit by vehicles twice while crossing a road on Wednesday night in Providence. (GoLocalProv)

Today in Providence:

• Wreath Making Workshop @RWPBotanicalCenter (All Day)
• Holiday Shop & Stroll to Benefit West Place Animal Sanctuary (9:30 AM)
• Holiday ArtMart at the WaterFire Arts Center (11:00 AM)
• Planetarium Show - Providence City Hall (1:00 PM)
• Stone Soup Set Up - Music Mansion (5:00 PM)
• Stone Soup Concert - Music Mansion (7:00 PM)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.