Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management
The bear walks through a parking lot in Cranston early Monday morning.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Let us now praise the bear. She (he?) has brought comic relief to a public grown weary of a bad economy and an election season grinding toward the end.
Please, take a moment to propose a name. Sorry, Yogi is already out there.
Vote for whether it should be allowed to roam free or be trapped with greasy Dunkin' Donuts as bait. Folks, you can't make this stuff up.
Weigh in below with a reader comment. "Grin and bear it" is already taken. So is Florida as the bear's destination.
Check the map.
Celebrate this quirky place we call home and thank Roger Williams for starting it. Though whether he would have found humor in bears in 1636 is debatable.