PROVIDENCE, RI – This morning, Governor Dan McKee joined Attorney General Peter F. Neronha, Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio, House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi, and city and town officials to announce funding recovered from opioids distributors that will be used to address Rhode Island’s opioids crisis.

In January 2018, then-Lt. Governor McKee led the effort to organize dozens of municipalities to file a lawsuit against pharmaceutical drug manufacturers and wholesale drug distributors.

Published on Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Agreement also reached between Attorney General Neronha and 39 cities and towns, ensuring settlement funds are used to directly address the opioid crisis

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Attorney General Peter F. Neronha, joined by Governor Daniel J. McKee, announced today that Rhode Island will join the national opioid settlement with three major opioid distributors that will provide over $90 million in funding for state and local efforts to address Rhode Island’s opioid crisis.

PRESS RELEASE: EAST PROVIDENCE WILL BE 1ST RHODE ISLAND MUNICIPALITY TO HIRE COMMUNITY RESPONSE SOCIAL WORKER

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 21, 2022

 

CONTACT INFO. :

Office of the Mayor

Patricia Resende

(401) 529-3207

presende@eastprovidenceri.gov

                                                                         

East Providence will be 1st Rhode Island municipality to hire a community response social worker

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI – The City of East Providence Senior and Recreation Centers will extend the closure and cancellation of most programs effective immediately, under Executive Order 2022-002, due to the continued prevalence and transmissibility of the COVID-19 Omicron variant and the increased number of COVID-19 positive cases.

The closures and cancellations will be extended until Jan. 28, 2022 and will be re-evaluated at that time. The move is in an attempt to #StopTheSpread of the virus.

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January 13, 2022

                   

CONTACT INFO. :                                             

Office of the Mayor                                       

Patricia Resende                                                                                 

(401) 529-3207                                                                                                          

New testing site to open at East Providence’s Fuller Library

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI – A new testing site will open in East Providence. Gov. Dan McKee announced on Monday that the state will open a walk-through rapid test site with 260 daily appointments at East Providence’s Fuller Library.

The new testing site, located at 260 Dover Ave., will be open seven days per week from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., beginning Wednesday, January 12, 2022.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

January 10, 2022

 

CONTACT INFO:

Captain Floyd Gardner

East Providence Police Department

401-435-7600 x20034

 

East Providence Police respond to fatal car crash

 

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI – On January 10, 2022 at approximately 12:55 a.m., the East Providence Police Department responded to the vicinity of 1085 Warren Ave. for the report of a metal traffic signal pole and sign down in the roadway. 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

January 7, 2022

                   

CONTACT INFO. :                                             

Office of the Mayor                                       

Patricia Resende                                                                                

(401) 529-3207                                                                                                          

presende@eastprovidenceri.gov