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Providence council honors longtime library advocate Patricia Raub
Summary
The Providence City Council unanimously passed a resolution Nov. 6 recognizing the life and civic work of Patricia Raub, who died Oct. 29, 2025. Council members delivered extended tributes highlighting her decades of advocacy for neighborhood libraries, public transit and workers' rights.
The Providence City Council passed a resolution on Nov. 6 recognizing Patricia Raub, a longtime advocate for neighborhood libraries and public transit who died Oct. 29, 2025.
The clerk read the resolution, which details Raub's lifelong work as a historian and organizer, her role as a founding member of the Community Libraries of Providence, her leadership with transit riders and her organizing on…
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