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Dr. Pancoast Named New President of RI Veterinary Medical Affiliation
The Rhode Island Veterinary Medical Affiliation (RIVMA) has named a brand new president. The group right now introduced the appointment of Dr. Shelly Pancoast, who assumed the function on January 1, 2023, and now leads the 250-member affiliation targeted on selling animal welfare, veterinary drugs, and public well being.
Dr. Pancoast has served on the RIVMA Board of Administrators since 2021, and steps in to steer the volunteer group at a very difficult time throughout the veterinary workforce nationwide. Regionally, the work of RIVMA has positioned an emphasis on well being and security within the veterinary occupation whereas guaranteeing the very best degree of look after animals.
Beneath her management, Dr. Pancoast signifies that “RIVMA will proceed to advertise Rhode Island as a nationwide chief in entry to high quality veterinary care and animal welfare, and as a champion for fostering finest practices in psychological well being and wellness for veterinary healthcare groups.”
Dr. Pancoast has been an emergency clinician at Ocean State Veterinary Specialists and Bay State Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Providers since 2011. She acquired her undergraduate diploma from Tufts College earlier than attending Tufts College Faculty of Veterinary Drugs. After graduating, she accomplished a one-year internship at VCA Veterinary Referral and Emergency Middle in Norwalk, Connecticut. She then spent two years usually apply each in Connecticut and Boston earlier than happening to finish a specialty mixed internship in cardiology and emergency and important care at Tufts V.E.T.S in Walpole, Massachusetts.
When not working, Dr. Pancoast enjoys touring, exploring new locations along with her husband and kids, and cooking. She aspires to at some point make each recipe within the America’s Check Kitchen Full Vegetarian Cookbook!
Roberts, Carroll, Feldstein & Pierce Provides Two
The regulation workplace of Roberts, Carroll, Feldstein & Peirce, Inc. (RCFP) proclaims two attorneys have joined the agency.
“Philip and Carleigh’s diligence and skill to serve our purchasers’ wants is far appreciated,” states RCFP Managing Shareholder Edward G. Avila, Esq. “They every deliver an understanding of the authorized complexities of business lending and finance in addition to a degree of experience in enterprise and company counsel. We’re happy to welcome them enthusiastically to our agency.”
Philip R. Primeau
Philip R. Primeau joins RCFP as an lawyer within the agency’s industrial lending and enterprise/company regulation apply teams. He focuses on negotiating, structuring, diligencing and documenting time period, revolving and development loans collateralized by actual property and enterprise belongings. Different areas of secured lending experience embody rate of interest swaps and London Interbank Provided Fee to Bloomberg Brief-Time period Financial institution Yield Index/Secured In a single day Financing Fee transitions.
Primeau additionally offers with a variety of enterprise and company issues from industrial zoning and land use to the decision of mechanics’ liens, and affords perception into questions of privateness and confidentiality as a licensed data privateness skilled.
Primeau graduated summa cum laude in 2017 from Windfall School the place he earned a bachelor of arts diploma in theology. In 2021, he earned his juris doctorate diploma summa cum laude from the Roger Williams College Faculty of Regulation (Bristol). He served as government notes & feedback editor of Roger Williams College Regulation Evaluation, and as a judicial intern with the US District Court docket for the District of Rhode Island and the US Court docket of Appeals for the First Circuit. He was subsequently admitted to the Rhode Island Bar (2021) and Massachusetts Bar (2022).
Carleigh B. Romano
Carleigh B. Romano has joined RCFP as an lawyer within the apply areas of business lending, enterprise and company transactional issues. She assists monetary establishments in drafting mortgage agreements, promissory notes, mortgages, safety agreements, and extra. Company work ranges from company operations to enterprise transactions with worldwide entities on advanced offers.
Previous to becoming a member of RCFP, Romano labored throughout the in-house authorized division for an area company, gaining expertise and background in admiralty and maritime regulation such because the Jones Act, customs restrictions, and transport operations in addition to environmental regulation and renewable vitality analysis.
Romano is a 2021 graduate of Roger Williams College Faculty of Regulation (Bristol) the place she earned a juris doctorate diploma. She is a 2018 graduate of College of Miami the place she accomplished her bachelor of arts diploma in political science. She was admitted to the Rhode Island Bar in 2022.
She is a resident of Newport, R.I.
RITA’s First Feminine Chair Goals to ‘Transfer Minds’
Debora Babin Katz assumed the gavel as the primary girl to Chair the Board of Administrators of the Rhode Island Trucking Affiliation on Tuesday, carrying on a wealthy legacy throughout the 92-year historical past of that affiliation. In doing so, she paid homage to a former trucking business trailblazer and vowed to ‘transfer minds’ as she endeavors to steer and develop that group’s non-profit Basis.
“Lena Daly was an distinctive feminine chief in our business and her management of the Rhode Island Truck House owners Affiliation from 1960 to 1981 contributed to the place RITA is right now,” mentioned Babin Katz.
“I’m excited to maneuver ahead on a twin observe as RITA’s new Chair: to serve and assist our valued members and to advance the mission of RITA’s newly-formed Basis. The trustees of this Basis board can be comprised of an unbelievable group of thought leaders, each inside our group and out of doors of RITA. We are going to concentrate on rising the muse’s fund to Transfer Minds by increasing our schooling scholarships together with the Lena Daly/WIT Basis Scholarship and the John J. Gill Scholarship, within the space of transportation; growing apprenticeship and profession growth packages and educating the general public concerning the wonderful profession alternatives within the transportation business. We are going to proceed to strengthen our relationship with URI’s Provide Chain program and the nationwide Ladies In Trucking Basis as a part of these initiatives, which can help our members in addressing a big problem they face right now: labor shortages,” she added
Vice President of RITA member TrucBrush, Debora Babin Katz’ board expertise contains seven years on the Ladies In Trucking Basis, 4 years as its chair, and on the Govt Boards of each RITA and the Trucking Affiliation of Massachusetts(TAM). She at the moment serves on the board of the nationwide Snow & Ice Administration Affiliation(SIMA) and their Basis board.
Babin Katz, who succeeds Legal professional Michael Kiselica as Chair, will serve a two-year time period for RITA, the unique Rhode Island affiliate of the American Trucking Associations.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — A career criminal from Providence admitted to a series of bank robberies in 2021.
United States Attorney Zachary Cunha said 47-year-old Vaughn Watrous pleaded guilty Wednesday to four counts of bank robbery stemming from multiple incidents over three days in January 2021.
Watrous admitted to a federal judge that from Jan. 19 to Jan. 21 he robbed three banks in Providence and Cranston and attempted to rob a fourth in North Providence.
He was arrested in Providence on Jan. 24 after an investigation by Cranston police.
Court records show that Watrous was previously convicted of seven bank robberies in 1997, 2003, and 2013.
He was sentenced to over four years in prison in 1997 for robbing a bank in Utah and then convicted in Providence on two counts of bank robbery in 2003 and four counts in 2015, accruing around 14 years in total prison time.
He was released from federal prison on Feb. 25, 2020.
Cunha said the sentence for Watrous’s latest robberies will be determined at a future date after consideration of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
WORCESTER, MA — What’s the difference between the drive to Boston from Worcester, and the drive to Boston from Nashua, NH?
About $4.40, if you pay your toll with an E-Z Pass transponder.
MassDOT Secretary Monica Tibbits-Nutt this week sparked a border war when she suggested Massachusetts should start tolling drivers coming into the state from New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Howie Carr called her a “nutjob,” the Herald used the headline “Off Her Nutt.”
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu and U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte both took shots at the idea (perhaps forgetting about their state’s tolls near the MA border?) and even Gov. Maura Healey stepped in to clarify the MassDOT chief’s toll opinions “do not represent the views of this administration.”
But if you’re a resident of anywhere west of I-95 — or even New York and Connecticut — you might’ve been left wondering: shouldn’t those out-of-state commuters pay their fair share, just like we do?
Maybe it’s another case of Boston-brain, which causes anyone within a subway ride of Beacon Hill to forget about the whole rest of the state. If you drive to Boston from Worcester, Framingham, Westborough or even Springfield, you pay tolls back and forth, every day. Anyone heading to Boston from central Connecticut will also likely pay a Mass Pike toll. Same for any day tripper or ultra-commuter coming to the Berkshires or Boston from just over the New York border.
Tibbits-Nutt’s comments were related to a state task force established by Healey that’s charged with developing a long-term funding plan to keep roads, bridges, highways and transit infrastructure “safe, reliable, and efficient.” The task force does include representatives from central Massachusetts, including former Worcester city manager Ed Augustus, Worcester School Committee member Alex Guardiola and Shrewsbury resident and 495/MetroWest Partnership Executive Director Jason Palitsch.
Tibbits-Nutt has said she wants the task force to be aggressive, exploring revenue sources like tolling and charging heavy road users, like delivery services and rideshare companies. The state takes in about $1 billion each year from tolls and gas taxes, but needs to spend more than double that to keep up with infrastructure — an important task made very real recently by the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, and the failure of the I-195 bridge between Providence and East Providence.
If you pay tolls, or just want to give your opinion, take our (very unscientific) poll:
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A Rhode Island mother is searching for a way to get her kids back home from Mexico, where they have become stranded without passports following a medical emergency on a cruise vacation, NBC 10 WJAR reports.
Sarah Martin told the station she sent her kids on the spring break vacation, which departed from Miami, with their grandparents. They were “having the time of their lives,” she said, until their grandmother had a heart attack, requiring she and the children to be transported to Cozumel, Mexico, where she remains in a medically-induced coma.
The children did not carry their passports with them on the cruise, so Martin told WJAR she has been asking the U.S. Embassy for assistance in getting her kids home. Her 8-year-old son, she said, is days away from running out of his epilepsy medication.
“They keep on asking me the same thing, ‘Mommy, how am I gonna get back to you?’ And it’s just really sad because I don’t have an answer,” Martin said.
Read the full story at WJAR.
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