Joseph Nadeau

Rhode Island

Education Reporter, The Call at The Call & Times

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NS Heritage Association volunteers power Memorial Building renovations

1 week ago | woonsocketcall.com | Joseph Nadeau

NORTH SMITHFIELD – Charles and Christine Dubois had a busy morning indoors Saturday but all for a good cause- – the North Smithfield Heritage Association. Charles, a member of the organization’s maintenance committee, and his wife, a member of the housekeeping committee, were found working on the upstairs auditorium in the historic Town Memorial Building as its renovation by the Association nears completion.
Woonsocket Police promote three to new leadership roles

1 month ago | woonsocketcall.com | Joseph Nadeau

WOONSOCKET – The police department marked the promotions of three members to new leadership roles Friday during a traditional swearing-in ceremony by Mayor Christopher Beauchamp and Public Safety Director Eugene Jalette attended by family members, department veterans and their peers. Police Chief Thomas F. Oates III announced Captain Adam Remick’s promotion to the department’s Deputy Chief post formerly held by the recently retired Thomas Calouro and now Police Chief in Sutton. Lieutenant Norman J.
Desiree Archambault crowned the 2025 Mardi Gras Queen

1 month ago | woonsocketcall.com | Joseph Nadeau

WOONSOCKET – During an evening marked with surprise appreciation on Sunday for those helping to make Woonsocket’s annual Mardi Gras a success, the Northern Rhode Council of the Arts (NRICA) crowned Desiree Archambault Mardi Gras Queen for 2025. The honor came during NRICA’s Queen’s Coronation dinner at the Italian Workingmen’s Club on Diamond Hill Road. Archambault, who selected her son, Robert Beauchesne, as her King of Mardi Gras, earned her second crown as Queen with the ...
NRI Council of the Arts ready for 30th edition of Mardi Gras

2 months ago | woonsocketcall.com | Joseph Nadeau

WOONSOCKET – This year’s Queen contestants are busy raising money for the Northern Rhode Island Council of the Arts (NRICA) and all is falling into place for the organization’s 30th edition of Mardi Gras on March 1. The annual event is NRICA’s revival of the local Mardi Gras held between 1954 and 1959 that had once secured the then largely French-Canadian Woonsocket a place in the national limelight.
Advocates warn of risks for city’s homeless population

Jan 23, 2025 | woonsocketcall.com | Joseph Nadeau

WOONSOCKET – People living on the street and unsheltered face many challenges during the course of a winter and especially dangerous and life-threatening health risks from extreme cold. Michelle Taylor, Vice President of Social House Services, 245 Main St. Community Care Alliance (CCA), and the agency’s staff see those risks in their daily work with Woonsocket’s homeless community, now numbering about 130 individuals.
City aims to do more to support homeless population

Jan 22, 2025 | woonsocketcall.com | Joseph Nadeau

WOONSOCKET – The deep cold of winter is back and with it concern for the plight of the homeless population in the city, prompting City Council action bolstering local assistance programs last week.
Harvest Community Church Men’s Shelter offers hope for those in need

Jan 21, 2025 | woonsocketcall.com | Joseph Nadeau

WOONSOCKET – When the weather turns deadly for those homeless in the area, the Harvest Community Church Men’s Shelter is ready to do its part- – just as it has been for the past 22 years. Harvest Community Church Pastor Steve Bacon, facility director, said a recent move by the city to secure the program a $77,234 grant from the R.I. Department of Housing for its emergency housing operations will ensure that good work continues for the 23 men now living at the shelter.
Blackstone River Greenway opens new connection to Woonsocket

Nov 21, 2024 | woonsocketcall.com | Joseph Nadeau

BLACKSTONE – Completion of a major reconstruction of the historic Blackstone Viaduct in the Waterford district has finally given Woonsocket and North Smithfield’s bike path to “nowhere” a significant destination. The short but important extension of the Blackstone River Greenway in Blackstone, Millville and Uxbridge now joins that route to the dead-end section of Rhode Island’s Blackstone River Bikeway at the Blackstone-North Smithfield line.
70 years of signal

Nov 18, 2024 | woonsocketcall.com | Joseph Nadeau

WNRI radio marks seven decades on the Woonsocket airwavesWOONSOCKETRichard “Dick” Bouchard has been busy with WNRI Radio’s 70th Anniversary this month and for good reason, he has been affiliated with the station as a broadcast engineer or owner much of that time. Yes, Bouchard, 86, was there in the early days of the station when it was still growing as a local business at 786 Diamond Hill Road and owned the station twice with partners since that time. On Nov.
Local veterans say remembrance is important

Nov 13, 2024 | woonsocketcall.com | Joseph Nadeau

WOONSOCKET – Now 97, Norman Champagne was supposed to be 18 to sign up with the Army in World War II but ended up going a little early at just 17, he recalled at the Woonsocket Senior Center on Friday. Champagne, a regular at the center until recently, was among the local veterans attending Aging Well’s annual veterans luncheon and glad to be there celebrating with his friends. The local soldier went overseas toward the end of the war but saw duty in Italy and France before things wound down.