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Walkers cross the rebuilt boardwalk at the Audubon Society's Environmental Education Center in Bristol.

On the local front:

A year ago today:
Two months after a devastating fire, the nature boardwalk at the Audubon Society's Environmental Education Center in Bristol is back in business. Officials and children from the center's summer camp cut the ribbon to reopen the quarter-mile-long facility, one third of which was destroyed by the April 17 fire that ran along the Warren-Bristol shoreline. Fire crews had to cut out parts of the deck to prevent the blaze from spreading.

5 years ago today:
The medical examiner's office identifies the body of a man found in the Seekonk River in Providence, but his family has not been located. The man was Armand Forand, 49. He had no permanent address and is known to have slept at shelters during the winter, Providence police Lt. Stephen Campbell said. The cause of death has not been identified, pending further test results from the autopsy. However, Campbell said Forand's death was not a homicide and no foul play is suspected.

25 years ago today:
Vincent A. Cianci Jr. loses another round in his fight to get back onto the mayoral ballot. The Rhode Island Supreme Court denied his request that it halt implementation of its order removing the former mayor from the July 31 special election. Cianci's legal options have narrowed to the federal courts, but Cianci refused to concede that his candidacy is dead. "I haven't seen the undertaker pull up yet," he said, adding, "We're continuing to push on with our campaign. I'm continuing to act like a candidate and I won't be deterred."

On the national front:

On this day in 1951, President Harry S. Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany.

Read The Associated Press's Today in History.

Watch video highlights from Today in History.

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