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Providence Sees Lots of Potential for Vacant Lots

PROVIDENCE — The new program’s name, “Lots of Hope,” is terrific, but its mission is much more impressive. The city, in partnership with the Southside Community Land Trust and The Rhode Island Foundation, is embarking on a new initiative to convert city-owned vacant lots into productive urban farms.

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Providence Eyesores Turned Into Community Treasures

PROVIDENCE — Diana Jackson often walked by this neglected patch of city property and winced. Last year, she decided it was up to her — which also meant her 75-year-old husband, Don — to do something.

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Green Space Part of Saving Mill Towns

PROVIDENCE — If you were mayor what would you change? John Fetterman got that chance in a community so run down that it had lost 90 percent of its population.

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