McKee said he issued the tractor-trailer ban in coordination with Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York.
Winter storm hits parts of Northeast, causing difficult driving, closed schools and canceled flights
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“The first governor to serve a four-year term, Governor Almond often said his number one goal was to make Rhode Island a place where people wanted to work and raise a family," McKee said in a statement. “Whether it was expanding the number of state subsidized child care seats, increasing education aid, investing in Rhode Island’s institutions of higher education, creating thousands of good paying jobs and laying the foundation for Quonset to be the economic engine it is today - Rhode Island was better off because of his eight years as Governor."
Former Rhode Island governor and U.S. attorney Lincoln Almond dies at 86
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