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Business moving in right direction
Robert Romano has always worked in the service industry, so being both the CEO of Coutu Bros. Moving and Storage and the guy who...
PAL leader making mark in cultural preservation
The path for women interested in anthropology and archaeology 30 years ago was teaching – not a direction in which Deborah Cox necessarily wanted...
Scouts stepping up efforts to develop female leaders
Neil M. Stamps, the new CEO of the Girl Scouts of Rhode Island Inc., has taken the job at a time of declining enrollment...
‘You do it once and you do it right’
Two years ago, the Tile Craft Design Center got outbid on a job to tile a kitchen countertop in a Narragansett home.
Recently, they were...
Online degree program helps nurses learn while working
In March, Douglas Sherman, the senior vice president and provost at the New England Institute of Technology, saw his work to introduce an online...
New game plan to grow trade?
Getra S.p.A., a global energy company outside Naples, Italy, that builds electrical transformers, is looking for distribution and warehouse facilities in the Northeast. Rhode...
Hand-grilled crusts a hot product
The business name Top This! Fire-Grilled Pizza Crusts is both a challenge to competitors and an invitation to consumers, owner Roger Dwyer says.
“Fire-grilled” is...
Programs give graduates leg up on in-demand jobs
Rhode Island has a good shot at employing graduates of four new programs designed to train registered nurses, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, educators...
Schools see solar projects as way to educate, save
Several schools are hoping to add rooftop solar projects to their campuses in order to cut back on annual energy costs – and incorporate...
Construction boost seen curbing unemployment
Three years ago, the Rhode Island chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. spent nine months getting permit approvals for a small, $30,000...
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