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BLANK CANVAS: Arts students work on paintings at Riverzedge Arts Project Inc. Leaders at the Woonsocket-based social service and arts organization had to put its fall programming on hiatus due to a lack of financial help for its operations. 
COURTESY RIVERZEDGE ARTS PROJECT INC.

Without state help, arts groups paint dire financial picture

FACING A FALL SEASON with little financial help from the state, arts and cultural organizations across Rhode Island are paring down operations, scrambling to...
HANDS-ON LEARNING: ­Chandler ­Architectural ­Products carpenter apprentice Luis ­Mercedes at the former Windmill Street Elementary School building in Providence, which is undergoing renovation.  
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

APPRENTICING FOR SUCCESS: Aging workforce needs infusion

Earlier this year, first-year ­carpenter apprentice Luis ­Mercedes got to spend a few months helping install windows at the former Windmill Street ­Elementary School...
READY WITH A REMEDY: Herbalist Mary Blue has carved out a niche in the health sector, building a business that offers herb-derived tinctures, baths, syrups and teas, as well as classes on how to make them. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Blue built a business from ‘power in herbs’

PBN 2023 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Mary Blue | Farmacy Herbs LLC owner and founder HERBALIST AND COMMUNITY educator Mary Blue, owner and founder...
WHAT’S IN STORE? Jo Lee, founder of PopUp Rhody, at a Botanic Providence pop-up retail site organized by her company at Stock ­Culinary Goods on Hope Street in Providence. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Building a venture in pop-up matchmaking

PBN 2023 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Jo Lee | PopUp Rhody founder DURING THE EARLY PART of her career in the technology sector, Jo...
READY WITH A REMEDY: Herbalist Mary Blue has carved out a niche in the health sector, building a business that offers herb-
derived tinctures, baths, syrups and teas, as well as classes on how to make them.
PBN PHOTO/
ELIZABETH GRAHAM

She’s built a business from ‘power in herbs’

Herbalist and community educator Mary Blue, owner and founder of Farmacy Herbs LLC, was barely out of high school when she realized she had...

Five Questions With: Dr. Jose Bernardo Quintos

At the beginning of 2023, Dr. Jose Bernardo Quintos will add to his responsibilities as division chief of pediatric endocrinology and diabetes at Hasbro...
WHAT’S IN STORE? Jo Lee, founder of PopUp Rhody, at a Botanic Providence pop-up retail site organized by her company at Stock Culinary Goods on Hope Street in Providence. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

She’s building a venture in pop-up matchmaking

During the early part of her career in the technology sector, Jo Lee’s perspective was global. The industry’s momentum swept her up into jobs...
VITAL SERVICE: Ashlee Austin, right, site inclusive health clinician at Thundermist Health Center, meets with a patient at the 
center’s West Warwick location.
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Mental health providers are overwhelmed in R.I.

As COVID-19 began to creep into Rhode Island in early 2020, Michelle Crossley saw a steady increase in emails from people wondering whether they...

Five Questions With: Dr. Brian Alverson

Dr. Brian Alverson is co-founder of SmölTap, a Providence-based medical device company that is just beginning to market an innovative device designed to hold...

Five Questions With: Kellie Armstrong

As Lifespan Corp.’s Center for Bariatric Surgery marks its 10th anniversary, Kellie Armstrong, a registered nurse at the center, is celebrating the 17th anniversary...
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