EAST PROVIDENCE, RI – The East Providence Recreation Director, Diane Sullivan has announced her retirement after 43 years of service to the city.

Sullivan, who began her career in 1982 at the age of 18, started as a part-time recreation leader and quickly became a pivotal part of the recreation team. Sullivan would go on to become the arts and crafts director, before accepting a full-time position in 1987 as the Recreation Center Office Manager and just one year later she would be promoted to Recreation Center Coordinator.

Land Development Project: Master/Preliminary Plan Submission
Applicant/owner: The John Flatley Company
Street address: 1279 Wampanoag Trail
Location: map 711, block 3, parcels 15.6 and 15.7
Zoning: Commercial – 1 District

A meeting of the Planning Board pursuant to Article 12 ‘Unified Development Review’ of the City of East Providence ‘Land Development and Subdivision Regulations’ will be held in Room 306, City Hall, 145 Taunton Avenue, East Providence, Rhode Island, on Monday evening, January 12, 2026, at 6:00 P.M. The following application for Unified Development Review will be heard in accordance with Article 12 and Rhode Island General Law State Law 45-23-50.1.

I. Zoning

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI – Global Partners has donated 5,000 gallons of home heating oil to support East Providence residents this winter to ensure that families stay warm throughout the season.

This donation is apart of Global Partners’ annual commitment to distribute and assist residents facing heating and food insecurity through donations of home heating oil in communities that the company calls home.

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. –The East Providence Department of Public Works will be collecting and chipping Christmas trees for use as mulch for City projects. Residents have the option of dropping off trees or curbside collection.

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI – The East Providence Public Works Department, Recycling/Refuse Division announces that all household rubbish, regularly collected on Thursday, Dec. 25, 2025, will be collected on Friday, Dec. 26, 2025, due to the Christmas Holiday. Collections for the remainder of the week will be delayed one day. Household rubbish and recycling, regularly collected on Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, will be collected on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026 due to the New Year holiday. Collections for the remainder of the week will be delayed one day. Regular collections will resume the week of Jan.

Innovative Social Services Partnership with Crossroads, Family Service of RI, and Foster Forward Increases Impact on Families
East Providence, RI–One Neighborhood Builders (ONB), one of the state’s leading nonprofit affordable housing and community development organizations, held a groundbreaking today to celebrate the commencement of construction on phase one of its Center City Apartments (CCA) affordable housing development, the organization’s largest to date. CCA will transform a vacant, three-acre blighted parcel on Taunton Avenue into 144 affordable apartments.