Ten years into sobriety, Esther Oden, 78, is a sober coach and East Coast Coordinator for the Remote Sober Support Network
‘I had always said to myself that when I retired, I would work with addicts’ This story originally was...
Q & A with Aquidneck Community Table executive director Rose Jones
Congratulations, Rose, on recently starting your new position as Executive Director of Aquidneck Community Table. We’ll get to that...
Long-term sampling in Narragansett Bay reveals plummeting plankton levels
Originally published by ecoRI News, a nonprofit newsroom covering environmental news in Rhode Island. Read more at ecoRI.org KINGSTON...
Danish artist brings giant troll sculptures to Ninigret Park
Thomas Dambo creates troll artworks across the globe to practice and preach the value of using trash and discarded...
Spending time in nature can be a positive game-changer for your health… regardless of your age
Even spending short amounts of time in nature can reduce stress, and improve mental health and language, math and...
Q & A with filmmaker Susan Sipprelle
Susan, your latest film, “Newport: In This Together,” has been getting a lot of media attention lately, including in...
Q & A with Brown School of Public Health Dean Dr. Ashish Jha
A belated welcome back to Brown, Ashish. You returned last June after more than a year as the White...
Sowing native plants is crucial to the health of the environment, pollinators, food systems
‘If we don’t have native plants so that native pollinators can live, we will lose food sources’ So, you...
Q & A with professor and author Mike Stanton
Mike, let’s start with today. You live in Rhode Island and are a journalism professor at the University of...
Providence’s Write Rhode Island grows literary community from the ground up
Originally published by The Providence Eye, a publication partner of Ocean State Stories. Rhode Island’s literary legacy stretches from...
The promise and potential perils of Artificial Intelligence in healthcare
‘AI is coming and there’s nothing stopping it’ PROVIDENCE — Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool in the...
Q & A with Pawtucket State Rep. Jennifer Stewart
Welcome, Jennifer, to the Ocean State Stories Q & A forum. You are a state representative from District 59,...
Q & A with Neil D. Steinberg
Neil, you retired last May as the longtime president and CEO of the Rhode Island Foundation, when the baton...