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Why stop at the ‘Gulf of America’? Maybe it’s time to rethink names of RI cities and towns

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January 26, 2025

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Why stop at the ‘Gulf of America’? Maybe it’s time to rethink names of RI cities and towns

It seems Donald Trump’s Gulf of Mexico name change is going forward.

Even the Coast Guard is officially calling it “The Gulf of America.”

To me, that’s a sign we’re now allowed to change geographical labels.

Which, of course, got me wondering how we might apply that here.

I’ve long thought that the state’s 39 cities and towns are way too many – maybe now’s the time to consolidate them into a half dozen or so.

I’ll get to that in a moment, but first, if the Gulf of Mexico can be renamed, why not Rhode Island itself?

Frankly, it’s a bit absurd that no one is sure where our name came from.

One theory is that in 1614, Dutch explorer Adriaen Block called it Roodt Eylandt because of the red clay along the Block Island shore. Another is that Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano thought we looked like the Greek island of Rhodes.

Wouldn’t it be better to name us after something more relevant?

From our beginnings, Rhode Island has been known as a contrary state, the first to reject the crown and the last to ratify the Constitution.

So perhaps we should be named Contraria?

Or Rebellia?

I once heard a British visitor say, “Rhode Island is such a funny little state – is it necessary?” Perhaps not, which makes me think we could also be called “Inessentia” or “Afterthoughtica.”

Since there are two Carolinas and Dakotas, we conceivably could be renamed South Massachusetts. But 390 years later, I’m still mad that they kicked out Roger Williams, and I’d rather not be known as their appendage.

We could also be East Connecticut, but why be melded into a state that – how do I put this politely? – does anyone even know what Connecticut is about? Like, what’s nutmeg? At least Rhode Island is distinct, from accent to brash politics – “brash” being a polite word for “occasionally corrupt.”

But I don’t think the name “Corruptia” would help our tourist pitch. This has me thinking it would help if a new state name highlighted our coastal distinction.

So if I had to make a final decision, I’d call us “Beachlandia.”

Meanwhile, let’s get to the idea of compressing the absurd number of 39 Rhode Island cities and towns.

My initial thought was to combine towns by personality – for example putting together East Greenwich, the East Side, parts of Barrington and Newport and call it the town of “Affluence.”

One might also combine Pawtucket and Woonsocket as comparable working-class cities named “Woontucket.”

But I think the towns have to be contiguous. And if we’re going to jettison the absurd number of 39, let’s be serious about making it not much more than a half dozen.

I picture seven.

First, let’s look toward the west – you know, that sea of red in the state’s post-election maps. That would include Burrillville, Hopkinton, Richmond, Exeter, West Greenwich, Coventry, Foster, Scituate and Glocester. As far as I know, there’s only one thing out there in western Rhode Island, so I’d call that town “The Woods.”

Which brings up another Rhode Island region – to the south – also known for one thing. I’d merge Charlestown, South Kingstown, Narragansett, North Kingstown, Westerly and Block Island and call it “The Dunes.”

Now let’s move east across Narragansett Bay. You know how when you ask people from Middletown where they live, they often make it easy on everyone and say, “Newport”? I’m guessing other folks do the same – especially if they’re out of state and someone asks what town they live in.

So I’d combine Jamestown, Middletown, Portsmouth and even Tiverton and Little Compton, all of which are in the sailing city’s gravitational pull, and name that town, “Le Newport.”

Next, I’m thinking about the wraparounds circling the state’s sole metro area. I’d include Warwick, Cranston, Johnston, North Providence and even East Greenwich.

Of course, those towns all see themselves as distinct, but I’ll bet folks in places like Boston just meld them together as “the land beyond Providence.” I’ll throw West Warwick into that mix because I don’t know where else to put it. And we’ll call that combined town “The Burbs.”

That leaves the state’s urban core – Providence, East Providence, Pawtucket and Central Falls. I might borrow one of my favorite Rhode Islandisms and call it “Down City.”

To the southeast of Down City, there’s a necklace of towns that don’t quite qualify as Le Newport, the Burbs or The Dunes. I’m talking about Barrington, Warren and Bristol. We’ll call that town “The Marina.”

That leaves Lincoln, the Smithfields and Cumberland, which aren’t quite The Woods. And Woonsocket which is too far to be Down City or the Burbs. I think that amorphous mix of towns should simply called, “The Rest.”

All seven of these new combined towns would make up the newly named Beachlandia.

Let me know if you have better ideas for a state name.

Meanwhile, someone please alert the Coast Guard.

mpatinki@providencejournal.com

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Boys And Girls Battle In Nearly 1,000 Wrestling Bounts At 2026 New England Championships

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March 9, 2026

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Boys And Girls Battle In Nearly 1,000 Wrestling Bounts At 2026 New England Championships

PROVIDENCE, RI — Hundreds of boys and girls from the six New England states competed at the 2026 CNESSPA New England Championships in Providence, Rhode Island, on Saturday and Sunday.

Boys from 176 high schools and girls from 125 schools participated in more than 960 bouts at the Providence Career & Technical Academy. The girls had 12 weight brackets while the boys had 14.

For the boys, Ponaganset High School in Glocester, RI, came in first with 128.5 points, Xavier High School in Middletown, CT, an all-boys Catholic school, came in second with 119 points, and Central Catholic in Lawrence, MA, came in third with 105.5 points. For the girls, Massabesic High School in Waterboro, ME, came in first, with 52 points, Salem High School in Salem, NH, came in second, and Woburn High School in Woburn, MA, came in third.

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Boy Results

106-pound bracket: 1Samuel Floody (Scituate RI), 2Sam Winship (CENCTH), 3Josh Perez (XAV), 4Chace Armstrong (Ponaganset), 5Remington Grunhuvd (MSBC), and 6Matt Boucher (Timberlane).

113: 1John Woodall (Franklin), 2Antoine Jackman (GRLOW), 3Cole Desiano (RDGF), 4Caden Hughes (PNGT), 5Reid Grandmason (Exeter), and 6Kylan Berry (BNYE).

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120: 1Zack Dixon (Xavier), 2Lucas Copper (CENCTH), 3Cole Lemovitz (Ponaganset), 4Dominic Simpson (Belfast), 5Logan Barry (Scituate RI), and 6William Accorsi (SOMS).

126: 1Nick Desisto (Tewksbury), 2Mael Pierre-Paul (BUNL), 3Brayden Boccia (MLFD), 4Cahota LaFond (COLC), 5Josiah Martins Semedo (N-B), and 6Jisup Shin (Weston).

132: 1Evan Boulard (MSBC), 2Robert Newton (Scituate RI), 3Derek Marcolini (MLFD), 4Dylan Meyers (RDGF), 5Aplollo Bellini (Ponaganset), and 6Zaphyr Musshorn (Xavier).

138: 1Lukas Boxley (LDYD), 2Kai Ly (MINN), 3Jason Ballou (ANDV), 4Jack Sauer (Franklin), 5Coleson Tully (Carver), and 6Asa Reis (Mt. Anthony Union).

144: 1John Carrozza (RDGF), 2James Lally (SJP), 3James Rocco (BARR), 4Duncan Harrington (Mt. Anthony Union), 5Jordin Agosto (AGWM), and 6Evan Madigan (EDL).

150: 1Isaiah McDaniel (MIDD), 2Alex Lamarre (BC), 3Henry McElligott (HOLL), 4Dan Greaney (LEOM), 5Leo Moore (RDGF), and 6Nicholas Genin (NWTS).

157: 1James Tildsley (SHAW), 2Carnell Davis (Ponaganset), 3Antonio Arguello (NTWN), 4Daniel Woods (WELL), 5Anthony Lombardi (MTHP), and 6Ben Byrne (Nashua South).

165: 1Colby Vital (Ponaganset), 2Matt Pappas (BHEN), 3Evan Schibi (GLBT), 4Harry Marino (COND), 5Jacob Critchfield (Hollis Brookline), and 6Brady Ouellette (Noble)

175: 1Cyrus Jones (SHRN), 2Harrison Muller (Danbury), 3Vincent Rivera (Xavier), 4Rhys Dewar (CENCTH), 5Cooper Theriault-Dinielli (PLNV), and 6Adryan Urena (LSA).

190: 1Sam Josey (SJP), 2Chase Catalano (XAV), 3Dylan O’Brian (FWRD), 4Logan Holmes (SHAW), 5Dante Richardson (CHSW), and 6Grady Pease (MDMK).

215: 1Matt Harrold (HAV), 2Owen Pavao (S-B), 3Shamus Pease (MDMK), 4Taiyo Gemme (OLWB), 5William Buffington (TAUN), and 6Merlin Smith (EDL).

285: 1Kaz Morosetti (NKNG), 2Brian Waller-Reitano (CENCTH), 3William Martinez (WLLS), 4Bishop Kearns (Bishop Guertin), 5Chris Levesque (OXFD), and 6Chase Galke (SHLT).

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Girl Results

100: 1Ella Paris (Salem NH), 2Parker Theriault (Mattanawcook/PVHS), 3Sophia Gordon (SWIN), 4Riley-Anne Tarmey (TRIT), 5Abigail Garland (MTBL), and 6Hannah Perro (Noble).

107: 1Sora Bukoski (Penobscot County Wrestling), 2Elsa Scott (SHRN), 3Maggie Campbell (Woburn), 4Amelia Hough (Milford), 5Kelsie Strong (MARSH), and 6Clara Reynolds (NMIL).

114: 1Allison Patten (PILG), 2Kennedie Davis (BR), 3Ava Gamberdella (BRNF), 4Addie Smith (VERG), 5Mia Annello (BILL), and 6Ella Libiszewski (LUD).

120: 1Jillian Blake (TRUMB), 2Hannah Dyckman (Bristol County/Dighton Rehoboth), 3Maleeah Rios (BC), 4Alanna Smith (CMHL), 5Lauren McAteer (WPO), and 6Monica Flores Romero (Fairfield Warde).

126: 1Adelina Tate (ELTC), 2Caitlin Castoldi (Woburn), 3Delaney Frost (Noble), 4Maisa Allen (OTV), 5Ashlynn Cummings (FLUD), and 6Luca Marshall (TCTY).

132: 1Madeline Ngo (Newton North), 2Alexia Coleman (Salem MA), 3Eliana Selerais (AMTY), 4Kaydn Hansen (MTBL), 5Kylie Biter (OXFD), and 6Faith Young (Middleborough).

138: 1Adriana DeGroat (FRMG), 2Nevaeh Grunhuvd (MSBC), 3Winner Tshibombi (STRF), 4Keira Lynch (Salem NH), 5Daphen Nyan (Davies Career & Tech Academy), and 6Ania Konieczna (SHRN).

145: 1Sophie Grunhuvd (MSBC), 2Gabriella Kiely (STRF), 3Josephina Piel (NMIL), 4Gabriella Ramos (AGWM), 5Regan Murphy (Canton), and 6Hailey Isham (MT ABE).

152: 1Ava McGinnis (NOKO), 2Nmachukwu Okoli (BR), 3Zady Paige (BLFS), 4Rileigh Fagan (BP), 5Nora Demaine (Lake Region), and 6Mackenzie Lacoss (Spaulding).

165: 1Kaydence Atkinson (NBHS), 2Gabriella Mighty (STAM), 3Bethany-grace Dean (Bristol Eastern), 4Sadie Nadeau (Spaulding), 5Jordyn Reynolds (GLTS), and 6Stella Christopher (AGWM).

185: 1Kayli Morris (PLATT), 2Madi King (BBA), 3Madison Beauregard (Concord), 4Leanna Watson (Putnam), 5Emma Leonido (HANV), and 6Jillian Boncore (Alvirne)

235: 1Jeily Euceda (NRWK), 2Hillary MacDonald (LAWR), 3Lillian Soper (BUCK), 4Elaine Pinto (DURF), 5Jadaliz Acosta (Bloomfield/Weaver), and 6Alei Fiatoa-Fautua (NPRO).

View the full results for the girls here.

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RI’s Civil War history reveals an overlooked soldier | Opinion

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March 8, 2026

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RI’s Civil War history reveals an overlooked soldier | Opinion

Marta V. Martínez
| Guest columnist

Amos (Ramos) Butler was a Mexican-born man who served in a segregated Black regiment during the Civil War.
His story highlights how 19th-century records often altered or erased the identities of immigrants and people of color.
Butler’s likely surname, Ramos, appears to have been Anglicized to Butler in official military documents.
Highlighting his story adds diversity to Rhode Island’s Civil War history for the nation’s 250th anniversary.

As Rhode Island joins the nation in marking its 250th anniversary, I’ve been asked a fair and important question: Why highlight Amos (Ramos) Butler? Why elevate one individual when there are so many well-documented figures already woven into our state’s history?

My answer is simple: because history is not only about what we have long remembered, but about what we failed to see.

I did not set out to find Amos Butler. I encountered him while researching Civil War records connected to Rhode Island: lists of names, enlistment dates, regiments. In those records, I found a man listed as “Amos Butler,” born in Mexico, who served in the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery Regiment (Colored) during the Civil War. His name alone gave me pause. Amos is not a common Mexican name. That detail led me deeper into the archive, where questions of identity, language and recordkeeping began to surface.

What emerged was not a heroic legend or a tidy narrative, but something more historically instructive: a glimpse into how 19th-century bureaucracies recorded – or misrecorded – immigrant lives.

Amos Butler served alongside Black soldiers in a segregated regiment at a moment when the nation was redefining freedom, citizenship and belonging. His likely Spanish surname, Ramos, appears to have been Anglicized – or misunderstood – by the very system charged with preserving his service. That single alteration tells us a great deal about how people like him moved through official history: fully present and contributing, yet partially obscured.

This is not about retroactively assigning modern identities or reshaping the past to fit contemporary frameworks. It is about acknowledging what the records themselves reveal. Civil War historians know well that military documents often flatten race, erase origin, and simplify identity. Butler’s story fits squarely within that established scholarship. What makes it notable is that it unfolds here, in Rhode Island.

State histories tend to emphasize regiments, battles and leadership. Far less attention is given to the individual enlisted men whose lives complicate our assumptions about who served and why. Butler’s story adds texture to Rhode Island’s Civil War narrative by reminding us that migration, race and service were already intertwined long before the 20th century.

The 250th anniversary of the United States invites reflection, not revisionism. Major commemorations have always prompted historians to revisit archives, ask new questions, and consider whose experiences were overlooked. But commemoration is also, at its best, an act of recognition. To name and remember people of color who lived, labored and served in earlier generations is not to diminish the past – it is to honor it more fully. Their lives are not footnotes to history; they are part of its foundation.

We often say that history is written by those who leave records. But it is also shaped by how carefully we read those records – and whether we are willing to notice the irregularities, the misspellings, the lives that don’t quite fit our expectations.

Honoring Amos Butler is not about elevating one person above others. It is about acknowledging that the American story, and Rhode Island’s story within it, has always been broader and more diverse than the version many of us inherited.

At 250 years, we have an opportunity not only to look back, but to commemorate those whose presence affirms that people of color have always been here – living, serving and shaping this country in ways we are only beginning to fully recognize.

Marta V. Martínez is the executive director of Rhode Island Latino Arts. She serves on the RI250 Commission. Martínez is producing a first-person monologue of Amos (Ramos) Butler, which will be presented as part of the RI250 celebration.

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Michael Flynn attends ‘Rhode Island First’ rally in Warwick

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Michael Flynn attends ‘Rhode Island First’ rally in Warwick

WARWICK, R.I. (WJAR) — Former U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Flynn appeared at a “Rhode Island First” rally in Warwick Saturday night with Vic Mellor, a congressional candidate running to unseat Rep. Seth Magaziner in Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District.

Protestors gathered near the entrance of the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick ahead of the rally, where Flynn and Mellor gave remarks along with other conservative speakers and musicians.

“The purpose of this is to motivate the base, because there’s such a high percentage of Republicans and Independents that don’t vote,” Mellor said.

Devin Bates reports on a rally for Vic Mellor, a Republican challenger to Rep. Seth Magaziner, that featured Michael Flynn. (WJAR)

Protestors picketing outside the hotel felt differently, with organizers calling out the hotel’s owners for hosting “individuals associated with the January 6 insurrection, election denialism, and extreme rhetoric.”

“We don’t agree with Crowne Plaza letting them be here, we think it’s kind of sad that they do,” said Kristen Lancaster. “They’re not pro-democracy, they’re anti-healthcare, anti-science.”

Ahead of the rally, Flynn shared his thoughts about Rhode Island’s current federal delegation as Mellor seeks to become the first GOP candidate elected to statewide office since 2006, when Donald Carcieri was re-elected as governor.

“You’ve got manufacturing potential here, you have a workforce that really could be first class, but you don’t have a federal elected body of people right now that are bringing that back, because they’re fighting opportunity,” Flynn said.

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