Tuesday, April 23, 2024

TOPICS

Home Authors Posts by Elizabeth Graham

Elizabeth Graham

904 POSTS 0 COMMENTS
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Five Questions With Heather Evans

Heather Evans | Chief marketing officer, R.I. Commerce Corp. 1. What is your first priority in your new job? To listen and learn. ...
NEW LAW: Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity CEO Mike Stenhouse believes a new law – requiring a 100% reimbursement rate for property taken by eminent domain within three opportunity zones in Pawtucket – is directed at the redevelopment of the former Apex department store.
 / PBN FILE PHOTO/ARTISTIC IMAGES

Pawtucket wants ‘square deal’ under eminent domain

The legislator behind a new law that matches tax-increment financing authority with federal opportunity zones in Pawtucket says the change it makes to existing...

Five Questions With: David DeJesus

David DeJesus began his new role as director of Salve Regina University’s Office of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education’s program in health care administration...
GOOD FIT: Guillermo Perez, right, helps Gary Balletto get hooked up to a stationary bike made for people with paralysis at an adaptive gym Balletto created inside the Cranston YMCA. Balletto has a spinal cord injury and wanted to give others with similar injuries and disabilities a chance to work out with everyone else.
 / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

With specialized equipment, many now can find fitness and social interaction...

Noise, chatter and a feeling of camaraderie are typical of most fitness center visits. Gym-goers are rarely alone, sweating it out, even if conversation...

Health care delivery increasingly meets patients where they live

As more ambulatory and urgent-care clinics spring up across the region, health care providers see it as evidence the industry is evolving at a...
PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY CEO and Executive Director Trudy Coxe, center, walks along the restored serpentine path at the Breakers with Hope "Happy" Van Beuren and board member David B. Ford Thursday in Newport. / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

First phase of Breakers’ landscape restoration complete

NEWPORT – The $1 million initial phase of a multimillion dollar grounds restoration project at The Breakers has been completed. The project, part of The...

Five Questions With: Dr. Peter Cohn

Dr. Peter Cohn was recently named physician in chief of the cardiovascular center at Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River. Cohn served as interim...
JOB TRAINING: We Make RI staff, from left: Diana Castellone, marketing specialist; Barbara Jackson, executive director; Katelyn Boudreau, vice president of employer relations; and Samantha Gobin, outreach coordinator, meet at the nonprofit’s Cranston offices.
 / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Manufacturing a new job

At least half of the men accepted into classes at We Make RI say they want to be machinists, or computer numerically controlled operators. The...
FRESH VARIETY: Stu Meltzer, owner of Fearless Fish Market in Providence, shows off Watch Hill oysters, quahogs, a scup and a bluefish. 
 / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

How to buy, cook fish fearlessly

Laden with local seafood, the cases at Fearless Fish Market offer a peek at what’s swimming in the waters off Rhode Island’s coast. Wild...
GOOD FIT: Ruth Thumbtzen, an AARP member, speaks with Brian Martin of Middletown last month after the ribbon-cutting for a new fitness park in Newport.
 / COURTESY JOHN MARTIN/AARP

Newport park place to exercise, ‘change attitudes’

Ruth Thumbtzen was one of the first to try the workout equipment in mid-July, just after the ribbon-cutting at the new AARP-sponsored fitness park...
- Featured Event -

Latest News