Sarah Grillo opened up at Felicia's Saturday morning expecting to serve a few plow drivers, but got slammed.
When the blizzard hit last week, Felicia Revens was away, but she wanted to open up her coffee shop as soon as possible to be a resource for those working the storm. She arranged to have her cousin, Jamie Piscopio, who has a truck, pick up Sarah Grillo, who lives downtown, to have her open up. The idea was other workers would follow, but with road conditions so bad, it soon became clear that Grillo was going to have to handle things herself. "We didn't think it was going to be busy," Grillo said. "We opened at 7 and there were plow drivers already waiting." By 8 a.m., things started getting really busy. "Everyone that came in kept saying we were the only place open around for miles and miles," said Grillo. "It was just nonstop." Grillo…
Your guide for life in East Greenwich today, July 7.
Trash & Recycle holiday schedule: If you had trash and recycle pickup on Friday this week, your pickup takes place today because of the 4th of July holiday. EG 'Shop Local' Cyber-Mob: This is an extension of the “cash mob” movement that swept into town a few weeks ago. At 8 a.m. this morning, a local store’s website will be announced on Facebook and we’re all invited to “mob” the store. Don’t worry, if you aren’t a big online shopper, you are more than well to visit the bricks-and-mortar site. Click here for the Facebook page. Blood drive at Felicia’s: This is a good deed you get to do lying down. And the good it will do! Turns out as hard as they try, scientists still haven’t made a suitable synthetic blood substitute. So those of us in …
Five things you need to know about East Greenwich today, Dec 3.
Shady Lea Mill Open Studios: This beautiful old mill building in North Kingstown houses over 40 artists, artisans, and craftsmen and women working in various media. Today and tomorrow they will hold their 14th Annual Open Studio weekend from noon to 5 p.m. There will be food and drink and lots of beautiful things to see and buy. Several EG residents have studios at Shady Lea - holiday shopping doesn’t get much more local than this. Christmas at the Castle: The halls of Smith's Castle are decked in period fashion for a celebration of Christmas past. The theme this year is the history of Santa. In addition to costumed historical interpreters (including some children!), you can enjoy live music from an earlier era, nibble on home baked …
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8:56 am on Thursday, February 14, 2013
Heather, Cindy and Elizabeth, customers like you make our jobs a pleasure! Thank you, Felicia, Sarah and the rest of our gang more ›