Antonia Noori Farzan

Have a feeling that the new Deer Tick album is going to become my whole personality

A gigantic snow teddy bear was stopping traffic in Woonsocket. A massive snow sculpture carved by David Gladu outside his Poplar Street home has become a local attraction, with drivers, city workers, and school buses stopping so families can snap photos. https://bit.ly/3PgbKRc

Agreed

Mud season

a rhode island drag queen named divine providence

Nervously bouncing over potholes while three buckets of maple sap slosh around in the back….that spring in New England feeling

RI state payroll fiasco exposed SSNs. Now, this official has been fired. McKee asked for Womer's resignation after corrected W2s were mailed out with state employees' SSNs visible through the envelope.

Gov. McKee fired his director of administration today with the state unable to fix monthslong payroll problems that may still be getting worse

www.providencejournal.com/story/news/p...

Quahog Museum: Ephemera:

Advertising card: Club Embassy, Woonsocket, undated. Contributed by F. Mikkelsen.

I was walking this way around 4:45ish! How did I miss you??

How blizzards and snow removal become political in an election year Snowstorms have a way of testing politicians. But critics have found little to fault with Gov. Dan McKee's response.

@antoniafarzan.bsky.social graciously interviewed me for this piece and I'm grateful. We don't value these types of labor jobs and we don't notice until a storm like the one we had, how hard it is. Our society needs to be more grateful for those amongst us who step up during an emergency

How a cat stuck in tree during the blizzard was saved by an ironworker "I don't think she would have survived another day," said Matt Lyons, who shimmied up the tree and carried Pixie down in his sweatshirt.

The great @antoniafarzan.bsky.social tells the story of Pixie, the East Providence kitty who spent two days during the blizzard stuck in a tree.

Thankfully, she survived. 😭😭😭

GOOD-NEWS How a cat stuck in tree during the blizzard was saved by an ironworker Portrait of Antonia Noori FarzanAntonia Noori Farzan Providence Journal Feb. 28, 2026, 5:05 a.m. ET A record-breaking blizzard had been pummeling Rhode Island for hours when Heather MacKinnon got up to make dinner and heard a plaintive meow. She looked outside and saw her neighbor's 1-year-old cat, Pixie, perched high in a tree in their shared East Providence backyard.

This is a lede, folks. 🐈🌳🌨️

Full story: www.providencejournal.com/story/news/g...

Via @antoniafarzan.bsky.social

Providence's coolest coffee shop melted away after a 'heat wave' Noah Carroll, who runs a pop-up coffee shop called Very Good Coffee, built an igloo with a coffee window after the blizzard.

This is extremely Providence (complimentary) www.providencejournal.com/story/news/g...

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'Nowhere else to go': Friends build igloo bar after record snowfall Six friends in Providence's Fox Point neighborhood found a creative way to transform a snow-covered sidewalk.

Another winner from @antoniafarzan.bsky.social: "rather than complaining about the slow pace of snow removal, they've been making the best of the situation" www.providencejournal.com/story/news/g...

How climate change helped the Blizzard of 2026 become a blockbuster Warmer oceans are fueling blockbuster snowstorms, climate scientists say. And we should expect more of them.

This is an excellent piece from the Journal's Alex Kuffner explaining how climate change contributed to this week's mega-blizzard.

Kuffner notes that Rhode Island is the "the fastest-warming state in the country," which I didn't know. 😳

'Nowhere else to go': Friends build igloo bar after record snowfall Six friends in Providence's Fox Point neighborhood found a creative way to transform a snow-covered sidewalk.

Genuinely glad that these young people are having a nice time www.providencejournal.com/story/news/g...

nothing like deadline pressure, right?

Literally a force of nature, everybody is effected and has an opinion on what is and isn’t working, a lot of the problems are determined by decisions made well ahead of the event (e.g., poor infrastructure), and much of the political impact will come down to a post-facto narrative.

I kinda think weather politics is local politics at its purest form.

The snow in Newport is one corgi tall

What to do now ahead of a possible power outage:

Fill containers with drinking water. You can melt snow for non-drinking uses but you don't want to drink that.

Charge up phones, computers, etc.

Round up your flashlights, and if you use candles, PLEASE don't leave them lit unattended.

Don't know who needs to hear this, besides everyone under this blizzard warning, but it's always a good time to buy a pass to Rhode Island beaches...
(Summer is coming.)
beachparkingri.com/season-pass/

A bungalow with a cleared driveway and a pile of snow measuring 5.5 feet high

Sure, it would have been nice if my husband had been around to help with the shoveling, but now I get to lord this over him for the rest of my life

37.9(!) at TF Green
Over 3 feet

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I feel like we are entitled to this salt by virtue of having to deal with Allens Ave on the regular

Listen, if Cranston gave us salt, there would definitely be people worried about Providence residents coming and taking it

Rhonda Dorgan's friends honor shooting victim, 'the mother of our group' A close-knit group of Rhonda Dorgan's friends say they want the public to know who she was as a person, beyond the tragic circumstances of her death.

“It’s like that culminating event of your life as a sports parent, especially when it's your youngest child, and it's your last senior night. She would have been full of joy, but thinking, wow, life is changing now."

www.providencejournal.com/story/news/c...

Bus stops in Providence still covered in snow weeks after storms Snow pileup continued to prove problematic for RIPTA riders across Providence weeks after January's snowstorm, several bus stops are still covered in ice.

Snow pileup continued to prove problematic for RIPTA riders across Providence weeks after January's snowstorm, several bus stops covered in ice or blocked by snow banks.
https://bit.ly/4cA04lV

Noted and I genuinely appreciate the feedback (and take it very seriously.) This story has been a tricky one to navigate, and we definitely don’t want to do any harm. Criticism / suggestions for improvement always welcome.