Lauren Clem

Pawtucket

Associate Editor at Rhode Island Monthly

Associate editor @RIMonthly | Woonsocket girl | Villanova alum | Formerly @TheValleyBreeze @RICatholic | Send me your story tips: [email protected]

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Articles

Rhode Island FC Unveils New Centreville Bank Stadium

2 weeks ago | rimonthly.com | Lauren Clem

It’s official — Rhode Island’s newest professional sports team will play its games at Centreville Bank Stadium on the banks of the Seekonk River. Rhode Island FC revealed the name sponsor Tuesday during a press event in the stadium’s newly completed club area. Harold M. Horvat, president and CEO of Centreville Bank, expressed his excitement in partnering with the team.
Embrace Banned Books at the 2025 Bristol BookFest

3 weeks ago | rimonthly.com | Lauren Clem

According to PEN America, the United States is seeing a surge in book bans, with more than 10,000 instances of books banned during the 2023-2024 school year. These sobering statistics remind us that freedoms aren’t automatic, and even rights enshrined in the Constitution need safeguarding. It’s a message the coordinators of this year’s Bristol BookFest have taken to heart by placing a high school classic, Ray Bradbury’s dystopian Fahrenheit 451, at the center of this year’s celebration.
This Rhode Island-Born Sailor is Trying to Change the Game for U.S. Offshore Sailing

1 month ago | rimonthly.com | Lauren Clem

It all started in Jamestown. That’s where Erica Lush, an American sailor pursuing a career in offshore racing, first got out on the water with a local youth program. Both her parents sailed, and they frequently took her and her brother on weeklong trips in the family boat. “My parents both knew how to sail, so that was a big part of my childhood,” she recalls during a phone interview from Europe, where she’s training to participate in the prestigious Solitaire du Figaro later this year.
Q&A: Lindsey Ramirez

1 month ago | rimonthly.com | Lauren Clem

The former director of Rhode Island's Women's Business Center talks entrepreneurship and finding her way back home. Editor’s Note: This interview was conducted prior to Ramirez stepping down as Director of Rhode Island’s Women’s Business Center in February 2025. Lindsey Ramirez always dreamed beyond the nine-to-five grind. A native of Edgewood, she taught English abroad, studied tech in Spain and lived in New York City before moving home to Rhode Island two years ago.
All in the Family

1 month ago | rimonthly.com | Lauren Clem
Marching with the Newport St. Patrick's Day Parade

1 month ago | rimonthly.com | Lauren Clem

The parade has stepped off every year, rain or shine, since 1956. Newport today might look different from the ocean town that drew Irish immigrant workers in the early 1800s, but the heritage marches on in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Every year since 1956, rain or shine, the parade has set out from City Hall and wound its way to St. Augustin Church in the Fifth Ward. Chairman Dennis Sullivan even remembers one year when participants marched through a blizzard.
Throwing Stones with the Ocean State Curling Club

1 month ago | rimonthly.com | Lauren Clem

Youth hockey is winding down at 8:30 on a Thursday night, but the competition at the Smithfield Municipal Ice Rink is just heating up. Members of the Ocean State Curling Club congregate in the stands, prepping for a night of friendly rivalry. League members ranging from their teens to their eighties chatter excitedly and don extra layers while the Zamboni makes the rounds. As the machine completes its final lap, they head down to the ice as a group to transform the rink into a playing surface.
One Last Look at Historic McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket

1 month ago | rimonthly.com | Lauren Clem

Highlights include a the launch of a few careers in the MLB and a thirty-three inning game in 1981. On Nov. 3, 1940, mayor Thomas P. McCoy laid the cornerstone of what would soon be known as McCoy Stadium. Far from the beloved ballpark it would become, the stadium played host to a rotating cast of minor league teams until the Pawtucket Red Sox made it their home in 1970.
Extreme Commuting on Mount Washington

2 months ago | mountwashington.org | Lauren Clem |Ellen Estabrook

By Lauren Clem | Winter 2024/2025This article was originally published in the Winter 2024/25 edition of Mt Washington Valley Vibe, a unique, outdoor-focused, seasonally-printed publication in the Mt. Washington Valley of New Hampshire. In his 19 years serving as a weather observer for the Mount Washington Observatory, Ryan Knapp has seen it all. He’s seen 10-foot snow drifts piled against the walls of the Sherman Adams Building.
ECHO Village opens after years of delays

2 months ago | rimonthly.com | Lauren Clem

Rico Ramey was one of a kind. The forty-eight-year-old from Providence had an ear for hip hop and loved laying down a beat with his cousins. An Eagles fan, he rooted his team on this year for what became a Super Bowl-winning season. He attended Hope High School on the city’s East Side. More than anything, he loved the outdoors. Ramey, who spent time on the streets in the Smith Hill neighborhood, passed away suddenly in January.