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    Stories We Should Have Told, and More Change
    Briana Warsing
    • Sep 2, 2019
    • 3 min

    Stories We Should Have Told, and More Change

    Happy Labor Day, Roosevelt Island! It’s been another summer of change on Roosevelt Island, and at The WIRE. You didn’t hear much from us...
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    RIOC Opens Call For Artists For Nellie Bly Memorial
    briana644
    • Jun 28, 2019
    • 1 min

    RIOC Opens Call For Artists For Nellie Bly Memorial

    The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) has issued a formal Call for Artists to create a memorial for Nellie Bly, the...
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    Tasty Start for Moving Forward Program
    Phoebe Flynn
    • May 14, 2019
    • 6 min

    Tasty Start for Moving Forward Program

    Island Kids has launched its new initiative, Moving Forward, a program developed for high schoolers (ages 14-18), and separately, one for...
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    RIOC Overrules RIRA Public Purpose Fund Recommendations
    Briana Warsing
    • Jan 7, 2019
    • 6 min

    RIOC Overrules RIRA Public Purpose Fund Recommendations

    The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) board passed a resolution at their last board meeting overruling the Roosevelt Island...
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    What you Missed at RIOC's December Board Meeting
    Briana Warsing
    • Dec 15, 2018
    • 5 min

    What you Missed at RIOC's December Board Meeting

    The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation spent much of Thursday night's Board of Director's meeting getting their ducks in a row as...
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    Four Islanders Honored as Women of Distinction for 2018
    Briana Warsing
    • Mar 10, 2018
    • 6 min

    Four Islanders Honored as Women of Distinction for 2018

    Four Island women, Lisa Fernandez, Nikki Leopold, Marie Luarca-Reyes, and Sharon Williams were be honored by Assembly Member Rebecca A....
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    Senior Center Creates a Showcase for Local Artists
    Briana Warsing
    • Feb 18, 2018
    • 2 min

    Senior Center Creates a Showcase for Local Artists

    This week, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, unveiled a much talked-about new portrait of former President Barack Obama,...
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    A Thanksgiving to Remember at the Senior center
    briana644
    • Dec 2, 2017
    • 2 min

    A Thanksgiving to Remember at the Senior center

    Lisa Fernandez offers thanks to all those who lent their time and support to this year's Thanksgiving meal at the Senior Center.
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    Senior Center Advisors Have Our Support
    briana644
    • Sep 22, 2017
    • 1 min

    Senior Center Advisors Have Our Support

    A reader responds to a previous letter about conflict between the Senior Center management and the Roosevelt Island Seniors' Association
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    Briana Warsing
    • Aug 27, 2017
    • 2 min

    When Is It Enough?

    Last year, when the Roosevelt Island Senior Association’s sponsorship wasn’t renewed by the Department for the Aging and its program...
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    RISA on Defensive after Former Director Pleads Guilty
    Briana Warsing
    • Aug 26, 2017
    • 8 min

    RISA on Defensive after Former Director Pleads Guilty

    The board of the Roosevelt Island Senior Association (RISA) has found itself on the defensive following a guilty plea to larceny charges by
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    Senior Association Deserves Respect from Carter Burden
    briana644
    • Jul 31, 2017
    • 3 min

    Senior Association Deserves Respect from Carter Burden

    A RISA board member says the Senior Center's new operator is trying to undermine the group. Carter Burden responds.
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    Dana Agmon
    • Jun 11, 2017
    • 4 min

    Senior Association Awarded $12,000 in Delayed Public Purpose Funds

    At the May Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation public board meeting, the Roosevelt Island Seniors Association (RISA) was approved to...
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    Roosevelt Island Senior Center
    Roosevelt Island Senior Center - a Carter Burden
    • Mar 25, 2017
    • 3 min

    Roosevelt Island Senior Center

    For as long as I can remember, I have loved the company of older people, starting with my grandparents. Their experience, their wisdom,...
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