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Questions linger as Fane tower project inches forward

PROVIDENCE – Six years after it was first introduced and amid continuous opposition, the Fane tower project is still inching forward, with the latest...

Blue Cross, Greater Providence Chamber announce 2022 Worksite Health Awards

PROVIDENCE – Thirty-four businesses across Rhode Island have earned recognition as healthy workplaces from the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce and Blue Cross &...

Five Questions With: Christin Zollicoffer

Christin Zollicoffer is the new chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer at Lifespan Corp. In this role, she leads Lifespan’s strategy for a “diverse,...

Bradley Hospital is enrolling teens with OCD for new study

EAST PROVIDENCE – Bradley Hospital is enrolling teens with obsessive-compulsive disorder for a brain stimulation study. The study will examine whether the use of a...

Study: Rhode Island ranks No. 18 in U.S. for holiday health

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island is the 18th-best state for holiday health, according to a new study. The study, published by Life Extension, ranked U.S. states...

Lifespan, CNE gave their CEOs big pay raises in 2020

PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp. and Care New England Health System gave their top executives significant pay raises in 2020, WPRI-TV CBS 12 reported on...

HARI elects new chairwoman, vice chairman to board of trustees

PROVIDENCE – The Hospital Association of Rhode Island has elected a new chairwoman and vice chairman to its board of trustees. The new chairwoman is...
POP-UP BAKERY: Thrive Cakery LLC owner Jasmine Mendez speaks with John Shaw of Cumberland about her products, which she will be offering through a pop-up kiosk on the second floor of the Providence Place mall through the new year.
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Holiday cliffhanger: How long will merry feeling last for shoppers, retailers?

Karen Beebe’s Christmas season began months ago, in the heat of August, when she placed an order for 360 ­holiday ornaments. For Beebe, the owner...
GOING UP: Michelle Murphy, owner of Roots Hair Salon LLC in Cranston, works on Talias Oakane of ­Cranston. Murphy says she may have to raise the rent she charges her stylists, who recently raised their prices due to the increased cost of products, because her monthly payment to rent the building space for the salon recently increased.
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More businesses struggle with their rent payments

When Michelle Murphy renewed her lease recently for a 5,000-square-foot beauty salon she rents in Cranston, there was some bad news that came with...
BUILDING BLOCKS: Ryan Powers, co-owner of RJP Packaging LLC, works at the company’s Pawtucket headquarters. Powers and his father, John Powers, started the business as an industrial packaging company but have expanded.
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Variety of products and services keeps packager expanding

RJP Packaging LLC may have started as an industrial packaging business, but it is much more than that today. Co-founders John Powers and his son...
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