Warwick Radio: The Voice of Warwick, Rhode Island

Warwick Health and Wellness host Martha Bottella talks with Warwick Health Equity Zone (HEZ) Initiative Director Michael Fratus.

Warwick HEZ is a community-directed organization funded by the Rhode Island Department of Health that finds and works on health gaps in the city. Hear how HEZ connects with Warwick, how it decides what to work on, and how it helps Warwick’s children and teens to improve their mental health and wellbeing.

Martha Bottella is a lifelong resident of Warwick who works in wellness treating the mind/body connection to help the whole person.

Write to Martha at [email protected]

Gloria Kennedy talks with Congressman Jim Langevin about his career in public service.

Congressman Langevin is retiring after 20 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Hear about his journey from Warwick police officer to U.S. congressman, the challenges of working in government during the past decade, and the legislative accomplishments he’s most proud of.

Gloria Kennedy Fleck was elected to the Rhode Island Senate in 1976 and was Deputy Majority Leader in the 1970s and 1980s. She was a Talk Host on WHJJ in Providence, Rhode Island from 1984-1986, and she's worked as a nonprofit fundraiser.

Write to Gloria on Twitter at @mssenator.

Music by Audionautix.com

A half-minute is all it takes to be inspired by a poem.

Join Warwick poet D.K. McKenzie for thought-provoking poems that are less than a minute long.

Hear poems by Edmund Spenser, Stephen Crane, and D.K. McKenzie.

Brought to you by Warwick Radio and the Warwick Historical Society, the Warwick History Quiz Show serves up fascinating facts about the city and a challenge for our contestants.

Join host Jen Linton, Warwick Commission on Historical Cemeteries Chair Pegee Malcolm, and contestants Tanisha Sampson and Jennifer Beiermann for our Halloween show with questions about Warwick’s historic cemeteries. Boo!

If you would like to be a contestant on the Warwick History Quiz Show, write to [email protected].

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Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with Care Access Principal Investigator Sudhir Bansal about a clinical trial for a new Lyme disease vaccine.

Lyme disease is spread by ticks and can cause heart failure, neurological damage, and severe arthritis. Hear how you can join a clinical trial to determine if Pfizer’s Lyme disease vaccine is effective at protecting people and give the world its first Lyme disease vaccine.

Learn more about the trial and how to sign up.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney and presented by the Varnum Memorial Armory Military & Naval Museum.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with Warwick Department of Tourism & Culture Director Elizabeth Dunton.

Hear how Warwick Tourism attracts visitors to the city’s restaurants, businesses, and hotels, how the Great Race came to Warwick in 2022, and how the new Apponaug skating rink will revitalize the neighborhood and help the city.

Visit the Tourism website.

See the Travel Guide.

Browse the Restaurant Guide.

Find events in Warwick.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney and presented by the Varnum Memorial Armory Military & Naval Museum.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick Health and Wellness host Martha Bottella talks with Warwick Public Schools Director of Instruction, Assessment and Curriculum Lisa Schultz.

Lisa is a member of Superintendent Lynn Dambruch’s administrative team and a leader in the team’s vision for better learning in Warwick’s schools. Hear how accountable talk, flexible space, and student choice can improve student participation, and how passing the school bond in November can help make a new vision possible.

Martha Bottella is a lifelong resident of Warwick who works in wellness treating the mind/body connection to help the whole person.

Write to Martha at [email protected]

Learn how to find a career in a competitive job market in this monthly series by Warwick career management specialist Kathleen Dohoney.

Today, discover how to start searching for your career.

Episode links:

Career One Stop

O’NET

Udemy

Free Management Library

Kathleen Dohoney, ACRW, CPRW, CDCS, CCTC, is a Career Advisor at New England Institute of Technology and a Career Specialist at Celtic Résumé Services.

Visit Celtic Resume Services.

Go to Kathleen’s Linkedin page.

Write to Kathleen at [email protected].

Warwick Life host Scott Nerney talks with City Historian and Warwick Historical Society Vice President Henry A.L. Brown about T.F. Green International Airport.

Hear how Charles Lindbergh inspired Rhode Island to build an airport, how the location of the airport was decided, how the airport was used during WWII, the danger of cupolas, and the visits of the Concorde and President Eisenhower.

Warwick Life highlights what’s special in Warwick, Rhode Island and helps listeners get the most from this seaside community. Warwick Life is produced by Scott Nerney.

Write to [email protected].

Music by Tess Der Manouelian.

Warwick librarian Wil Gregersen talks with Warwick author and firefighter Peter O’Donnell.

Hear about Peter’s life as a firefighter and EMT in the East Greenwich fire department, how he became a children’s author, how he started his Ill-Advised Stories podcast, and about his latest book for kids The Merlins Visit the Fire Station.

Visit Peter’s website.

Go to Ill-Advised Stories.

Wil Gregersen is Community Services Librarian at Warwick Public Library. He’s worked in Warwick for 10 years, and he likes the city a lot.

Write to Wil at [email protected].