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Baseball wasn’t in the original career plans for Jeff Sweenor, but on the business side of the sport he has found a true calling.
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By Rhonda Miller |
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Kelly LaChance-Guertin may laugh when she says she’s only able to manage running her professional and family lives by not sleeping, but hearing the young mother and business owner detail all she does makes it sound almost plausible.
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By Rebecca Keister |
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Wednesday that Rhode Island is slated to receive $3.24 million in disaster relief funding to rebuild following the damage caused by Hurricane Sandy in the fall.
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By PBN Staff
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When Bill Killen IV left Providence for the bright lights and opportunity of New York City after graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1993, he was an example of the “brain drain” of local talent Ocean State leaders lament.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Amaral Custom Fabrications has worked on projects ranging from outdoor sculptures for internationally known artists to dozens of 6-foot-tall versions of Mr. Potato Head for Hasbro Inc. The latter were used in a tourism campaign to promote Rhode Island as a family-vacation destination. Last month, owner Paul Amaral, above at his Bristol shop, won a contract from the Lichtenstein Foundation for an outdoor sculpture that will allow him to add as many as 10 workers to his current staff of 14.
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2/18/13
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“The show must go on” is such a powerful mantra in live theater that for decades fearsome storms that shut down every other type of business wouldn’t cancel a scheduled performance.
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By Patrick Anderson |
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Small models of sculptures often become very large works of art at
By Rhonda Miller |
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Small-business owners are continuing to try social media as a marketing channel. But with so many options – and limited time and resources to use them – which ones are working best?
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2/25/13
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Several years ago an attendee of the
By Rebecca Keister |
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The Internet has found local team-sports apparel. Long the domain of neighborhood sporting-goods shops or mom-and-pop screen printers, sales of uniforms and clothing for small teams – from Little League to corporate softball and high school wrestling – are migrating online like so many other consumer products.
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