Pawtucket

And sometimes you maybe get a little carried away.

I think in this case, I think Chris Cox probably regrets a bunch of things that he said about Pawtucket.

You know, he was trying to make the case that Boston is this very attractive place with lots of options for eating and drinking and, you know, fun after work, all true, no question about it, certainly compared to Pawtucket.

But he really felt the need to go the extra mile to compare Pawtucket to Boston.

Look, I was pretty offended by it.

I also thought it was a disgrace.

And I know this is a very local parochial thing to say.

But for the CEO of a company that's been in Pawtucket for 100 years to not once but multiple times in that interview not be able to pronounce Pawtucket correctly, uh i think was a sign that this is a guy who clearly did not care or think very highly of the place that made that company and so uh you know a little bit of an easy column to write you know you write it for the locals here but i do i you know i i think it's disappointing because while they had every right to move um Let's be honest, Rhode Island was very good to Hasbro over the last, certainly over the last several decades.

Mayor Grabian is seeing his final days as mayor of the city of Pawtucket, getting no love from Hasbro.

He joins us online right now.

Mayor, how are you?

We were trying to get an understanding of what they want.

You know, we have a lot of incubators.

We have a lot of manufacturing that is growing here in the city of Pawtucket and the state of Maryland, but they don't have that big.

It's 350,000 square feet.

So we talked about incubator space.

okay all right listen you want to talk to the mayor you call us at four three eight nine seven seven six four three eight nine seven seven six constituent service you want your garbage you want to make a complaint you want to get the smiley before Morales comes in you you call us up at four three eight 9-7-7-6.

Mayor, what do you make of what the CEO of Hasbro had to say about Rhode Island and Pawtucket? They had offices in your city.

They were right downtown.

They were in the building.

The guy was a jerk on the way out.

Yeah, it was not a very classy way to leave a place that has been home for more than 100 years.

For that company, certainly for the community of Pawtucket, it felt pretty insulting.

And for the many, many families in Rhode Island that... either currently work for Hasbro or have roots working for Hasbro.

They're on call 24 hours.

The other departments, we've covered Cranston, Pawtucket, Warwick, things like that.

They have to call the person and then, you know, come in and have them deal with it.

So we'll come back to this because there are two other stories that I do.

I mean, I guess it's possible, but you have to wonder when someone is filming that, if it turns out he was just filming it for his own enjoyment, then they're going to have that to deal with.

But if it turns out that the reason that police found out, or I was being shared well that that could be a problem and then the people receiving it could then that's what i mean could be a problem let's just say you're a work firefighter i don't know pick a different fire station wherever and you're doing whatever and suddenly your phone beeps or makes a sound you look and you know oh it's a text from matt cavanaugh And it's him with whoever.

Is this the first time he sent it? Are you the only one he's sending it to? Do you then send that to another firefighter and they send it to Cranston? Is Cranston sending it to Pawtucket? Like now it gets very problematic.

And what I wanted to say was the person that I spoke to was saying that they think a lot of, They're under the belief that a lot of the individuals involved may not have recognized the seriousness of they just think.

If you remember, about...

Three years ago, almost four years ago now, we had Jason Sugarman on the program to talk with us about what was then the upcoming arrival of Maven's Delicatessen in Pawtucket, a Jewish deli that was thinking about how to rethink the game a little bit in the deli presentation.

And now he's expanded to Maven's Jr. on Thayer Street in Providence.

They've been selling sandwiches at the stadium in Rhode Island.

He is the founder, the creator, the genius behind Maven's Delicatessen.

And if you have never been there, I cannot recommend it enough.

It's in Pawtucket.

There's also Maven's Jr. on Thayer Street in Providence.

And not only are we going to have our Wet Nose Wednesday segment in the 8 o'clock hour after the 8.30 news with Melissa Vieira, but we are also going to have in the beginning of the 8 o'clock hour, we're going to be joined by Jason Sugarman.

He is the man behind Maven's Delicatessen, which opened up a few years ago in Pawtucket.

And then he opened up another location on Thayer Street in Providence.

And now he's opening up in Pawtucket a new wholesale operation.

So Mavens is one of the very few... jewish delis that we have in the area and if you remember a couple years ago when we had jason on the on the air to talk about it he talked about how there's nowhere to get the the breads and the bagels and the things that he needs to be able to offer the the type of food that he wanted to offer so he said you know we're probably gonna have to start making all this stuff ourselves and and they do And they do very well with it, so they've decided now to open up a wholesale operation.

So not only will they be making more of that for use in the Maven's locations, but they're opening it up to other businesses as well.

And some of the other things that they're going to be offering.

And if you are interested, they're going to be delivering.

The show is supposed to be, so.

Pawtucket in it or

something?

Yeah.

existing.

You know what I mean? Pawtucket's got

a

team.