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Antonia Noori Farzan

@antoniafarzan

2 years

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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5 months

.... did Google Streetview go for a ride in a Providence gondola?

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If “no one reads newspapers anymore” then how come people are always mad at me

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3 years

I’m not sure that “Port of Providence” is the best name for a scented candle

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It is so!!! rude!!! to screen this in Boston before Providence. Might have turned me against the movie tbh

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Packed house for the Boston premiere of SECRET MALL APARTMENT (the documentary about the artists who built and lived in a hidden apartment in Providence Place Mall.) Boston really has a great movie theater scene, despite the odds and where the industry has been going.

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The controversial new wind turbines, seen from the Cliff Walk on a clear day

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4 months

Married at 9, Block Island Ferry at noon. Thank you to @GNEErynDion and @KatieLandeck for the flowers 💗

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3 years

Thank you to my phone for reminding me about the time I tried to give away a table on Craigslist and got this very normal response

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2 months

Oh you don’t “get” pizza strips? Should we have a party? Should we invite a bunch of people who just moved here from Boston and have the personality of drywall?

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2 years

Teamsters say they’ve voted to authorize a strike at RISD

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3 years

some news! today is my first day as a watchdog reporter at the @projo . i am so excited to start covering rhode island, the only state that matters™️. DM me your tips or email me at afarzan @gannett .com.

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2 years

It is time

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Took the day off work and ran into my boss on the Block Island Ferry … I think this is what they call “Rhode Island problems”

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I really don’t think we talk enough about the derangement of the Block Island ferry cocktail menu

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2 years

I can’t believe I spent 11 years studying French in RI schools and never got one field trip to Woonsocket

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If anyone knows the person who lives on the top floor of the Grace Church Apartments and grows massive sunflowers on their balcony…. please just tell them I’m a huge fan

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3 years

OK I hate puns but this was good

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2 years

Dying at this Newport auction house’s reaction to seeing mid-century modern furniture

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6 months

If you are now wondering what would happen if a container ship from Quonset hit the Newport bridge, rest assured that I am too and am calling the relevant experts to find out

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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3 years

Just want her back

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3 years

thinking of starting a thread with all the vanity plates i see while driving around RI

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Seven Stars employees who unionized last year say they have secured their first contract. (Story from June on why they sought to form a union: )

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1 year

Huge news (at least for me personally) - there’s now a floating oyster bar in Newport harbor that will tie up at your mooring & shuck them for you. VHF channel 88!

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1 year

A Block Islander sent me this video of a fishing boat trying to leave on Monday

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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7 months

If the RI State Archives sold reproductions of the cool maps and stuff in their collection, I would personally spend so much money on prints that it would probably pay for the new building. Just a thought.

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4 years

a cool thing to do while facebook stalking a random acquaintance from high school is to accidentally tag yourself as their baby

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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2 years

Free clam day at the State House

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2 years

Going to need Boston to fix its housing crisis so that the world’s most boring people will stop moving down here

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9 months

If you’re cold, he’s cold. Bring him inside.

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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3 years

Just learned about Nunavut’s old license plates…what if we did this but with a clam…

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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3 years

Growing up in Newport there were few things as mysterious as the “6-10 connector”… they always talked about it on Cat Country 98.1 but I never knew what it was… it felt as distant and exotic as the Azores and I was really disappointed when I drove on it for the first time at 23

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3 years

For the past couple of months I’ve been following people who go out looking for the old roads that were used hundreds of years ago and often have virtually disappeared — but may still be found on paper. Here’s the story:

Who rules RI's forgotten old roads? Advocates push to preserve public access

"No trespassing" signs are popping up on old cart paths, farm lanes and driftways, some with Colonial ties. Does the public have a right to access?

www.providencejournal.com

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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9 months

This is normally a road

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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2 years

The best thing about the Southern New England foraging FB group is how everytime someone posts about clamming, the Massachusetts people are like YoU NeEd A LiCeNsE FoR ThAt and the Rhode Islanders all jump in and are like hahahahhaha no we don’t, losers

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1 year

The “OK grandma let’s get you to bed” meme actually just depicts me walking down Thayer Street and reminiscing about what used to be where

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2 years

Going to Job Lot just to feel something

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11 months

Sorry I can't talk I'm completing my City of Central Falls Pigeon License Application

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1 year

His name is Scallop

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I’d rather die in Rhode Island than live any place else

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11 months

“Wow, a book on the houses of Providence from 1919, this sounds great!” Five minutes in…

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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1 year

“He told me that on primary night, he even got calls from people in Liberia who'd heard Gabe Amo had won – they were following Rhode Island’s CD1 election during Liberia’s early-morning hours.” @markpatinkin with the column I’ve been dying to read:

Gabe Amo could be RI's first Black congressman; what it means to his community

Gabe Amo’s victory was a reminder that with a dream and a work ethic, there are no limits.

www.providencejournal.com

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3 years

They’re running on a joint ticket

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6 months

Things I learned: To be a pilot (the boat kind) in RI, you have to pass a test that involves drawing a detailed map of Narragansett Bay from memory

Could Baltimore bridge disaster happen in Rhode Island? What to know about the risks.

There's good news and bad news for those concerned about the prospect of a large cargo ship hitting one of Narragansett Bay's bridges.

www.providencejournal.com

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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Learning that the British children’s books I grew up with were illustrated by a guy in Rhode Island who takes inspiration from Second Beach has reaffirmed my belief that this is the center of the universe, thank you @markpatinkin

How a RI artist came to draw one of the world's most beloved children's book characters

Barrington's R.W. Alley, who has illustrated the children's books series for 25 years, tells Mark Patinkin how RI pops up in his work on occasion.

www.providencejournal.com

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Antonia Noori Farzan

@antoniafarzan

3 years

Once again plagued by the memory of the time the cashier at a Portuguese market in New Bedford asked if I was Portuguese and I for some reason felt compelled to respond “No, I’m just a fan”

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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9 months

Presented without comment

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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10 months

Some of you don't fall asleep at night envisioning how you'd get around the state using small-to-midsize watercraft in the case of a gasoline shortage or apocalyptic levels of flooding.... and it shows!

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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1 year

Wish we could have a Rhode Island-specific Google that would understand that I would never voluntarily seek out information about Scituate, MA or Middletown, CT. And don't get me started on Warwick, NY!!!

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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2 years

Acquired some zeppoles in the parking lot of the Wendy’s on Bald Hill Road

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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9 months

Last 5 minutes of the Independent Man and people are still trickling in and lining up for photos. Kids are sliding down the marble steps & I just heard a mom yell “You are at the State House!!” at her football-wielding child. It’s all very heartwarming.

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2 years

South Kingstown wants to mandate that dispensaries "take on the architectural vernacular of traditional coastal New England"

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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3 years

my first @projo story is about a very large ship that turns out to be owned by a cult-like group and whose captain can't say for sure if slavery is good or not

A tall ship docked in Providence is home to the controversial Twelve Tribes religious sect

The Southern Poverty Law Center has categorized the Twelve Tribes as a "Christian fundamentalist cult" that defends slavery.

www.providencejournal.com

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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2 years

Wrote about an underrated development from last month's primary: Cherie Cruz ( @ConcernedRIer ), a former teen mom who was pushed out of school in eighth grade & haunted by a felony drug charge for decades, is poised to be Pawtucket's new representative.

Political Scene: From teen mom to a felony charge to populist victory in Pawtucket

Cherie Cruz dropped out of school at 16 and struggled to get by as a single mom with a criminal record. Now she's heading to the State House.

www.providencejournal.com

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2 years

Not usually a pin person but

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3 years

Alright we’re ready

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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3 years

I love working at a newspaper because periodically strangers will decide to escalate random personal feuds by forwarding me the entire email chain, with zero context/explanation. I have never gotten a story out of it but always enjoy catching up on the drama!

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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4 months

For several years now I have maintained a secret guide to RI beaches in a Google Doc that is only shared with a few friends. But I am now giving away some of those secrets in the newspaper… so you should probably subscribe

RI's secret beaches: Three under-the-radar spots to visit this summer

Some of the best beaches in Rhode Island aren’t technically beaches. They’re state management areas.

www.providencejournal.com

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2 years

I will go to my grave reminding people from Massachusetts that Rhode Island is a true land of freedom, where each resident has the right to harvest up to one peck of clams per day

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3 years

Put a quahog on the license plate

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5 months

This doesn’t go far enough, we need a quahogger parade. A quahog festival. A teen named Miss RI Quahog Queen.

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10 months

I’m always saying this

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1 year

New England Monthly, October 1989

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8 months

This is making me feel insane!!!

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2 years

She’s a New Englander

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3 years

Annoying everyone around me by referring to the seafood market as the “clam dealership”

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1 year

Nothing stirs my heart like in fall when dusk settles on the white steeples & brick factories of a New England town

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1 year

I hope he’s OK

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1 month

We used to be a proper country

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2 years

As one does

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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6 months

Making a list of some of the weirdest locations for historic cemeteries in RI. Anything I should add? (Yes I know the cemeteries were there before the other stuff, that’s the point.)

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1 year

Jamestown

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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3 years

On the plus side I DID get a spreadsheet that contains every vanity plate in Rhode Island

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1 month

Most Rhode Island thing I've seen in a while is the guy giving away clams he dug in Prudence Island in the neighborhood Buy Nothing group

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4 months

Perfect Jamestown headline

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Things you see in Newport harbor: A replica of a Viking ship being loaded onto a massive transport vessel for its trip to Norway

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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3 years

Good morning everyone, it’s a beautiful day to read my story about how activists are scouring old maps and digging up archival evidence that may hold the key to opening up parts of Westerly’s shoreline where the public has been shut out

Armed with dusty old maps, activists fight to reclaim beach access in Weekapaug

The Weekapaug Fire District restricts access to Quonochontaug Barrier Beach. But activists think they may have found a way to get around that.

www.providencejournal.com

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3 years

Truly cannot understand why some of you watch "television" at night when you could be watching PUBLIC MEETINGS

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2 years

Attempting to get public records from rural fire departments has been... eye-opening

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2 years

PVD Fest coinciding with Gaspee Days... a real "choose your fighter" moment...

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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4 months

I will be declining all future invitations to speak on panels unless I am given this podium

Edward Fitzpatrick

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4 months

The award for best podium goes to ...

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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2 years

Inspired by a discussion with @Miguel_de_RI , I am making a list of all the high-water mark plaques found around RI (from hurricanes, floods, etc.) Will post the ones that I have so far in the next week. Please tell me what I'm missing!

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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4 months

One of the great things about pizza strips is they’re available at 7:30 am

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1 year

Candidate trivia is BACK by popular demand

We gave the CD1 special election candidates a quiz on the district. Here's how they did.

How many candidates can tell you what a chimi is — or where to find Touisset?

www.providencejournal.com

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11 months

This is what the founders envisioned when they created the New England town meeting

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2 years

Did not know this: “Providence possessed no less than seven octagonal homes, more than any other American town is known to have had.”

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3 years

If you have power but are stuck at home... it's a GREAT time to read my story on the changing face of Rhode Island's ethnic social clubs

Ethnic social clubs dot Rhode Island, but their future is uncertain

Ethnic social clubs once offered lifelines to new immigrants, but many now resemble dive bars. Is a more diverse membership the key to their survival?

www.providencejournal.com

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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6 months

Remember the Pokémon Go craze? Well here’s something even better: Going on weird side quests to find the historic cemeteries hidden behind strip malls while you’re out running errands

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3 months

Do what you love (reading 183-page inventories of Rhode Island commercial port infrastructure) and you'll never work a day in your life

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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2 years

I am always grateful when people are willing to explain things to me, which makes it possible for me to do my job. However, the other day a man felt the need to tell me what a quahog is, and that was deeply offensive!!!

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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3 years

Woonsocket's city council will vote tonight on a proposal to use the first installment of ARPA funds for a skating rink and ergonomic chairs for the city council chambers. Residents had said their top priority was housing.

A skating rink and ergonomic chairs: How will Woonsocket council spend ARPA money?

The plan is drawing outrage in a city of one of the highest poverty rates in Rhode Island, where residents had listed housing as a top priority.

www.providencejournal.com

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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3 years

Didn’t have room for this in the story, but two people who are being housed at the hotel mentioned (with zero prompting) that they were really impressed that someone running for governor was sleeping outside as a protest. Both had done winters in tents.

A Warwick hotel is housing the homeless all winter. Some call it a 'godsend'

Neighbors have raised concerns, but homeless people staying at the hotel say they don't want trouble and are just grateful to be off the streets.

www.providencejournal.com

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1 year

He’s reading your tweets

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Same

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2 years

Checking in on the iced coffee that I left in my car overnight

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3 years

Smugly noting which neighbors have put out their trash for Monday pickup, revealing ignorance of the customs of this land

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1 year

Time to tweet about losing my blue checkmark just to make sure that everyone knows that I had one

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3 years

If you want to read 4,000 words about the drama going on with oyster farms, I have good news for you

Oyster wars: Why RI homeowners are fighting to keep shellfish farms out of their backyards

From Tiverton to Jamestown to South Kingstown, residents are furiously fighting proposed oyster farms. Shellfish growers blame misinformation.

www.providencejournal.com

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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10 months

If you force yourself to stay outside until the sun sets, you won’t be sad when that happens at 4pm. This is my most important New England winter survival tip.

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Antonia Noori Farzan

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2 years

Soon as I get a Boston Whaler to park in the driveway of my modest Cranston home I will truly be living the Rhode Island American Dream

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