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But never sunday...sunday is just not a day for Providence downtown yet.

True.

What if the farmer's market was moved to Westminster? There's enough vendors at the Farmer's market to have the street look full and build off of. I've thought that RISDs Benefit Street art sales would also be good moved to Westminster.

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True.

What if the farmer's market was moved to Westminster? There's enough vendors at the Farmer's market to have the street look full and build off of. I've thought that RISDs Benefit Street art sales would also be good moved to Westminster.

good call on the RISD Alumni sales. Certainly would not bung up traffic nearly as much as closing benefit street!

But i think the farmers market in Biltmore Park is a good use of that space once a week...It would be too bad if they moved. We are trying to get more life into the one real downtown park, and this is a good way to do that. There's no reason, however, Westminster couldn't do some cool art fair thing--Thayer St used to do an art thing in the fall, do they still do it? Like Saturday market in PDX?

maybe i'll bring back the pasta challenge and put it on Westminster... hmmmmm....

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Like Saturday market in PDX?

Great analogy. There's no reason something like that couldn't work downtown. There's the space, and the Saturday Market model on built on individual vendors (often ethnic vendors from other parts of the city other than downtown) would work well in Providence.

- Garris

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if the lights are not state property, the state won't do anything, but if the lights are on a state road, the city won't do anything.

that being said... if you complain to neighborhood services about traffic lights, they get the city ones taken care of within a couple days and forward the state ones to RIDOT.

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Former Providence radio talk show host

WRKO Radio talk show host John DePetro has been fired after he made a derogatory remark Thursday about the sexual orientation and the weight of Green-Rainbow party gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross.

George Regan, a spokesman Entercom Communications, the owner of WRKO, said this morning that DePetro had been let go. A full statement from the company would be released shortly, Regan said.

DePetro apologized on the air Thursday after making the remark about Ross, who describes herself on her campaign website as "a white lesbian living in Worcester" and life-long activist for gay/lesbian civil rights and other "progressive causes."

DePetro was suspended for two days in July for using a homosexual slur on his show to describe Matthew J . Amorello, who was chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority at the time.

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