sna

New Street Trees at CVS

Last week, the City of Providence Parks Department showed up and installed 4 new street trees, 2 on Hope and 2 on Lauriston. These new trees were in response to SNA protests to the removal of the mature street tree that was in front of the CVS sign. Having four immature trees doesn’t replace one beautiful mature one, but with care and time these trees will add to the beauty and character of Summit.

Our thanks to Doug Still, the City Forester, who took the initiative to have the trees put in this planting season !

Meanwhile, please join your neighbors to protect and guard the street trees, both new and mature, that we have here. It only takes one turn of the head and slip of the saw to lose something that took 20 years to grow !

Note: this post previously stated that CVS planted the trees. This was incorrect. Apologies for any confusion.

By sna, ago

SNA Yard Sale Postponed to May 20th

Due to the sogginess, the Annual SNA Yard Sale at the Church of the Redeemer was postponed until Saturday May 20th at 9  AM. The weather forecast looks good for Saturday, so please come out, have some fun, find some treasures, and support your neighborhood !

By sna, ago

Update: School Board votes to close Nathan Bishop M.S.

This is a correction to an earlier post, which said the Providence School Board vote on Nathan Bishop was April 4th. The vote was Monday, April 3rd (today). The School Board voted to close Bishop and re-accomodate its students in other schools.

The Providence School Board voted this evening to close the Nathan Bishop Middle School for one year over the strong objections of everyone except the school’s East Side neighbors.

Supt. Donnie Evans’ recommendation to close Bishop caught parents, teachers and union leaders by surprise. Until Friday, Evans was proposing to close the middle school and re-open it as a high school for ninth-and tenth-graders in the fall.

(more…)

By sna, ago

The Social Web and SNA

We’ve setup a few new “Social Web” tools for SNA members.

Eventful.com: Members of the SNA group on eventful can add Summit Neighborhood-related events to this online-calendar. These event listings will be viewable on Eventful (as well as several other popular websites should you opt to do so when adding the event.) These SNA-related events will also auto-magically appear here on the SNA website. We’d love to have you help us inform neighbors about upcoming events in the neighborhood, so if you would like to join this group, pls email us so we can send you an invite.

Flickr.com: Summit is a very photogenic neighborhood and if you use Flickr for your online photo storage, you can easily share your photos with other neighbors by submitting them to the Summit Neighborhood Flickr pool. These pictures will also auto-magically appear here on the SNA website. We think it would be great to hook up with other photographers and share pictures of our neighborhood, so if you would like to join this group, pls email us so we can add you the group.

43Places: Summit is on the map at 43Places. If you’re interested in writing reviews about the neighborhood, its businesses, attractions and restaurants, 43Places is the place to do it. Just visit the Summit Neighborhood page on 43Places and click the “Add a place within Summit Neighborhood.”

Suggestion/comments about these and other Social Web applications would be very much appreciated so don’t hesitate to drop a comment below!

By sna, ago

Annual Meeting

Please join us at the Summit Neighborhood Association Annual Meeting.

Thursday March 9th, 2006
7:00 PM
Rochambeau Library

Agenda:

  • Welcome
  • Election of Officers and Board for 2006
  • Doug Still, City Forester
  • Elected Officials
  • Other Invited Guests
  • Community Brainstorming Session
  • Action Teams
  • Adjourn
By sna, ago

Who is dumping their oil in Summit?

A neighbor has brought to the Board’s attention what may be a local car service station dumping their used oil on our streets. I checked it out before the snow fell. You can clearly see the stains.
Oil dumping stains Jan 06 - M.Tuck
The neighbor says, and it seems as though, someone in a truck drives up and down the streets with a open bucket just letting the oil drip and pour out. Pouring on east-to-west streets that drain well, Dexterdale and Edgehill, and not pouring on Summit and Camp, which don’t run downhill. (more…)

By sna, ago