Rhode Island
25-year-old drowns in Charlestown
CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (WJAR) — A 25-year-old Narragansett man died Sunday after a canoe overturned while he and one other were fishing on School House Pond, according to Charlestown police.
Police said the two men were in a fiberglass canoe about 100 yards from shore when it overturned. One man swam safely back to land, but the other, identified as Jordan Monroe, 25, of Narragansett, disappeared beneath the water.
Emergency crews, including Charlestown police, U.S. Fish and Wildlife officers, and Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Environmental Police, responded to the scene and searched the pond.
Martha Konstandinidis reports on the death of a man at a pond in Charlestown. (WJAR)
Authorities said Monroe was eventually found a considerable distance offshore and taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said neither man was wearing a life jacket. Investigators have not determined what caused the canoe to overturn and what Monroe’s cause of death was.
The drowning happened at School House Pond Beach, a swim-at-your-own-risk freshwater facility on Narragansett Indian Tribal land.
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The incident remains under investigation.
Lixeandro Andrade, 28, and Zahir Fortes, 19, were both arrested Monday on charges of carrying a pistol or firearm without a license and large capacity feeding devices prohibited, the state police said in a media release.
Andrade and Fortes were processed at the Lincoln Woods Barracks and arraigned, according to the release.
Awilda Perez Goris was arrested shortly after 2 p.m. Tuesday on charges of obtaining more than $10,000 under false pretenses and accessing a computer for fraudulent purposes, the Rhode Island State Police said in a media release.
Perez Goris, a resident of Uxbridge, was processed at the Wickford Barracks, arraigned and issued a notice to appear in court, according to the release.
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Foundation is offering three composers $30,000 grants — applications due Aug. 10 – What’s Up Newp
Rhode Island composers have until August 10 to apply for $30,000 fellowships from the Rhode Island Foundation, with three grants available to emerging and mid-career musicians looking to advance their work.
The grants come through the Foundation’s Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowship Fund and are unrestricted — meaning recipients can use the money however best serves their artistic growth, whether that’s creating new work, purchasing equipment, traveling, researching, or training in new technologies and techniques.
Applicants must have lived in Rhode Island for at least 12 months before the deadline. Current high school and college students, graduate students enrolled in degree programs, and composers at advanced levels of career achievement are not eligible. Submissions may be in any genre, including chamber, choral, contemporary, electronic, experimental, jazz, opera, musical theater, symphonic, and world music.
Recipients are selected by a panel of out-of-state industry professionals managed by the Artist Communities Alliance. Previous fellows include cellist Adrienne Taylor, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Courtney Swain, and electroacoustic composer Kristina Warren.
The MacColl Johnson Fellowships rotate among composers, writers, and visual artists on a three-year cycle; next year’s round will go to writers. The fund was established in 2003 in honor of Rhode Islanders Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson, both devoted to the arts throughout their lives.
More information and applications are at artistcommunities.org.
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