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Sandywoods wins fruit tree orchard in competition
TIVERTON - Sandywoods Farm, an art and sustainable agriculture community, has won a fruit tree orchard in a national competition.
Sandywoods announced Thursday it had...
Tiverton farm competing for orchard
TIVERTON – Mixed-use, mixed-income community development Sandywoods Farm is in the running to win a fruit tree orchard from Communities Take Root, a collaborative...
R.I.’s education system improves but falls short of national performance
PROVIDENCE – The performance of Rhode Island’s education system has improved slightly in the past year, but still falls short of national education performance,...
Café offers Amos House trainees real job skills
Amos House holds claim to the largest soup kitchen in the state, serving up to 800 meals each day, but that is not what...
Textron unit announces R&D agreement with geospatial intelligence agency
PROVIDENCE – A business unit of Textron Inc.’s Textron Systems has entered into a five-year cooperative research and development agreement with the National Geospatial-Intelligence...
URI wins $20 million NSF grant for marine life science research
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The University of Rhode Island has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant of $20 million to support marine life science...
R.I. private sector loses jobs in 4Q 2009, in line with...
BOSTON – Newly compiled statistics from the New England office of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicate that Rhode Island was among a...
R.I. ranks 25th nationally for student performance, Mass. earns No. 2...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rhode Island student academic performance and education reform policies have plenty of room for improvement, according to a report released Wednesday...
Providence is one of the worst cities for safe driving, says...
PROVIDENCE – Providence is one of the worst cities in the U.S. in terms of safe drivers, ranking No. 188 out of 193 cities,...
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