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Racoon in Rhode Island tests positive for rabies – Newport Buzz
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The Rhode Island Division of Environmental Administration and the Rhode Island Division of Well being are alerting the general public {that a} racoon discovered at Daring Level Park in East Windfall final week has examined optimistic for rabies. As a result of rabies is a deadly illness, anybody who might have had contact with this animal is urged to contact RIDOH as quickly as doable.
The racoon was discovered by the Wildlife Clinic of Rhode Island, a Saunderstown-based veterinary and wildlife rehabilitation apply that had responded to stories of a wounded raccoon on April 8. Daring Level Park is situated on Waterfront Drive off the Veterans Memorial Parkway in East Windfall. Clinic employees collected the animal, humanely euthanized it, and transported it to RIDOH’s State Well being Laboratories for testing, the place it examined optimistic for rabies.
Anybody who might have had direct contact with or anybody who was strolling a pet and the pet had contact with a raccoon at Daring Level Park is strongly suggested to name RIDOH’s Heart for Acute Infectious Illness Epidemiology at 401-222-2577 (Monday-Friday 8:30 AM-4:30 PM) or 401-276-8046 after hours for remedy steering.
“DEM stresses that wildlife is gorgeous however ought to at all times be loved from afar,” stated RI State Veterinarian Dr. Scott Marshall. “By no means strategy wild animals and positively by no means contact them. That is particularly essential right now of the yr when many species are having infants. Child animals are lovable and persons are naturally interested in them, however dealing with mammals, whether or not infants or not, is at all times a possible rabies publicity. As soon as folks deal with these animals, public well being officers are compelled to check the animal for rabies, which requires that the animal be humanely euthanized as a result of testing requires mind tissue.”
The rabies virus infects the central nervous system. If an individual doesn’t obtain the suitable medical care and rabies vaccination after a possible rabies publicity, the virus can unfold to the mind, in the end leading to loss of life. Rabies remedy should be began as quickly as doable after publicity. All canine, cats, and ferrets are required by state legislation to have present vaccination towards rabies. Vaccination of pets prevents them from contracting rabies and prevents folks from changing into uncovered to rabies by their pets. Bats in Rhode Island are also recognized to be contaminated with the bat pressure of rabies virus. Bat rabies strains are extremely transmissible to people, and preventive vaccination is usually really useful for publicity by proximity even and not using a seen wound, if the bat will not be accessible for testing
RIDOH and DEM make the next suggestions to forestall rabies:
– Make sure that all canine, cats, and ferrets are updated on rabies vaccination.
– Keep away from all contact with and don’t feed stray or free-roaming home animals.
– Keep away from all contact with and don’t feed wild animals.
– Don’t feed your pets open air, as it will entice different animals. That is particularly harmful when feeding giant numbers of free-roaming cats.
– Shield your pets by at all times sustaining management. Stroll canine on a leash or allow them to play in a fenced yard, and don’t let pets wander unsupervised.
– Report all animal bites to your metropolis/city’s animal management officer.
– Securely cowl all rubbish cans so wild animals can not scavenge for meals.
– Bat-proof your own home
For extra info on the way to forestall rabies, please go to RIDOH’s web site.
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Rhode Island
Farrell-to-Harris touchdown in final minute lifts Rhode Island over Holy Cross in 20-17 thriller
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KINGSTON, R.I. (AP) — Devin Farrell hit Shawn Harris Jr. for a 31-yard touchdown pass with 19 seconds remaining and Rhode Island survived a wild fourth quarter to defeat Holy Cross 20-17 on Saturday night in the season opener for both teams.
Rhode Island led 13-3 entering the fourth quarter but Holy Cross rallied with a 43-yard touchdown pass from Joe Pesansky to Charly Mullaly and a 4-yard TD run by Jordan Fuller.
Fuller’s touchdown capped a 13-play, 80-yard drive that lasted 7 1/2 minutes. After the kickoff, Rhode Island took possession at its own 25 with 1:47 remaining.
After three incomplete passes, Farrell ran for a first down and the Rams converted twice more on third down in their winning drive. On second down from the Holy Cross 31-yard line, Farrell connected with Harris for the go-ahead score. Harris caught the pass near the 20 and weaved his way through several defenders on the way to the end zone. The drive covered 75 yards in 12 plays.
Farrell completed 20 of 33 passes for 287 yards with two touchdowns and was Rhode Island’s leading rusher with 55 yards. Marquis Buchanan caught four passes for 88 yards.
Pesansky was 10-for-18 passing for 101 yards with one touchdown for Holy Cross. Fuller had 139 yards on 28 carries.
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Coach bringing NBA trophy to Rhode Island
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — The coach of the NBA champion Boston Celtics is bringing the Larry O’Brien Trophy to the Ocean State.
According to a tweet from Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee, Coach Joe Mazzulla will be at the State House on Tuesday morning at 10:00.
Mazzulla, a Johnston native, was a standout playing basketball for Bishop Hendricken High School, where he graduated in 2006.
The Celtics won their 18th NBA title by beating the Dallas Mavericks, four games to one in the championship round.
The win came at home in Boston’s TD Garden, on June 17 – or 6/17, in the heart of the 617 area code.
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Taylor Swift in RI; Atlantic Mills sale; rebuilding Republicans: Top stories this week
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Drone pilot Marc Bontemps captures video of Providence skyline
Bontemps, known for his aerial photos and videos on the Instagram account captured.by.marc, shares his craft with columnist Mark Patinkin.
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Here are some of The Providence Journal’s most-read stories for the week of Aug. 25, supported by your subscriptions.
Here are the week’s top reads on providencejournal.com:
WESTERLY – Rhode Island’s most famous part-time resident spent time this week at her Watch Hill home, along with her football star boyfriend, at least according to People magazine and TMZ.
Both outlets report that Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce – along with pals Patrick and Brittany Mahomes, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper – were in Rhode Island this week, as the singer takes a break from her Eras tour, which resumes in October, and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end prepares for his Sept. 5 season opener against the Ravens.
Read on for more details on the celebrity sightings around Swift’s Watch Hill mansion, dubbed the “Holiday House.”
Entertainment: Taylor Swift is in Rhode Island this weekend (and she brought some famous friends with her)
PROVIDENCE − The owner of the Atlantic Mills in Olneyville has put the giant mill building up for sale after backing out of a deal with the city and the Providence Redevelopment Agency to buy the sprawling property.
Those who work in the building say they are worried about being kicked out of one of the cheapest manufacturing, warehouse and office spaces in the city, which could mean the end of business for some of them.
Unlike downtown Providence, where offices have remained empty since the pandemic, the Atlantic Mills is almost full, with an estimated 88% of its occupiable space leased. Tenant businesses say that alternative spaces elsewhere in the city are far too expensive and lack the sense of community they prize at their current location.
“We call this a hidden gem,” said tenant Mike McNulty, who runs a woodshop there.
Real estate: ‘Hidden gem’: Pending sale of Atlantic Mills leaves tenants worried about their future
All summer long, American Mussel Harvesters’ 8-acre oyster farm south of the Jamestown Bridge sat idle.
The problem wasn’t the oysters. It was the 90-minute voyage to get there. And Adam Silkes, who oversees the operation, just couldn’t justify burning all that time and fuel.
Until a few years ago, American Mussel Harvesters kept its boats at a marina near the company’s Quonset headquarters, so shellfish only had a five-minute trip from dock to cooler. Then, according to Silkes, the cost of dock space more than doubled.
“It’s reaching crisis proportions, honestly,” said Bob Rheault, executive director of both the Ocean State Aquaculture Association and East Coast Shellfish Growers Association. If you can’t access your farm, he said, “it’s a death knell.”
Read the full story to learn what’s causing the shortage of affordable dock space, and what solutions are being proposed to protect the state’s aquaculture industry.
Local news: Rising prices leave oyster farmers, quahoggers searching for places to dock their boats
“It just makes sense to be a Republican in Rhode Island!” proclaims a whiteboard in the unassuming headquarters of the Rhode Island GOP.
GOP chairman Joe Powers, who came up with the slogan, argues that people are “sick and tired” after almost 90 years of Democratic rule. But when asked about the main obstacles that he faces when trying to enlist candidates, he answers bluntly: “Being a Republican in Rhode Island.”
Rhode Island voters have gone nearly two decades without electing a Republican to any of the state’s top offices or to Congress. And GOP members are shut out of many of the positions that typically serve as a pipeline to political advancement.
Political Scene explores how Powers and the state GOP’s new executive director, 22-year-old Aidan Carey, are trying to build the party’s bench and chip away at Democrats’ supermajority.
Political Scene: Is there a path for Republicans in RI? Inside the party’s effort to build its bench.
Journal columnist Mark Patinkin was scrolling through Instagram one day when he came across a post with stunning aerial nighttime footage of Providence, backed by classical music.
Curious about the person behind the page captured.by.marc, he tracked down Marc Bontemps, a Montreal native now living in Providence who wanted to show off the beauty of his adopted city. Bontemps became a licensed drone pilot, capturing images ranging from WaterFire to tugboats on Narragansett Bay, and he displayed his craft while being interviewed on Providence’s pedestrian bridge.
Mark Patinkin: Drone pilot’s videos hold Providence in the highest regard. How he works his aerial magic
To read the full stories, go to providencejournal.com. Find out how to subscribe here.
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