[CREDIT: U.S. Department of the Interior] A poster showing the voyages of Christopher Columbus from 1492-1504. Many states have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day. Columbus Day in RI is celebrated.

Columbus Day in RI 2024: What’s Open?

By: Rob Borkowski on October 14, 2024 in News to You, Good Times

Today marks Columbus Day in RI, a federal holiday honoring Italian icon and explorer Christopher Columbus, credited with discovering the Americas, slavery and other atrocities, a litmus test of communities’ […]

Columbus Day in RI: What’s Open?

By: Rob Borkowski on October 9, 2023 in Good Times, News to You

Theodor de Bry and Charles de la Roncière, La Floride Française: Scènes de la vie Indiennes, peintes en 1564 [facsimile of the 1564 original (Paris, 1928)].

Columbus Day: What’s Open & Closed in Warwick

By: Rob Borkowski on October 11, 2021 in News to You

WARWICK, RI — Today marks the annual commemoration of Columbus Day, a federal holiday honoring the explorer Christopher Columbus, who landed on an island in the Bahamas in 1492, long […]

Columbus Day 2020: What’s Open and Closed in Warwick

By: Rob Borkowski on October 12, 2020 in Good Times

WARWICK, RI — Today marks the annual commemoration of Columbus Day, a federal holiday honoring the explorer Christopher Columbus, who landed on an island in the Bahamas in 1492, increasingly […]

[CREDIT: U.S. Department of the Interior] A poster showing the voyages of Christopher Columbus from 1492-1504.

Columbus Day 2019: What’s Open and Closed in Warwick

By: Rob Borkowski on October 14, 2019 in Good Times, News to You

Warwick, RI — Monday, Oct. 14, marks the annual commemoration of Columbus Day, a national holiday honoring the explorer Christopher Columbus, who landed on an island in the Bahamas in […]

What’s Open and Closed in Warwick on Columbus Day

By: Rob Borkowski on October 8, 2018 in Good Times

Warwick, RI — Monday, Oct. 8, marks the annual commemoration of Columbus Day, a national holiday honoring the explorer Christopher Columbus, who landed on an island in the Bahamas in 1492. […]

The US District Courthouse in Providence, RI.

Man Pleads Guilty to Sex Trafficking in Warwick, Conspiracy to Traffic Heroin

By: Rob Borkowski on November 24, 2015 in Good Times

Damien Beverly, 29, of Providence pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to charges that he trafficked two women from Boston to Warwick for sex, and conspired to traffic heroin to give them in exchange.