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02908 Merchant Association launches to connect, inform North End businesses

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PROVIDENCE – In the 25 years that Wole Akinbi has lived in Smith Hill, the neighborhood has lacked a resource available to small businesses...
MAKER SPACE: ­Instructor Adaliz Rivera, above right, teaches Jasper Bliss, of Providence, how to operate a heat press and vinyl cutting machine in the first-floor workshop at Providence Public Library. 
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Beyond book learning: Training programs soaring at expanded Providence Public Library

Cover Story
Eric Khiev is looking to make a ­career change, and that’s why he was at the Providence Public Library last fall. Khiev holds a bachelor’s...
MILESTONE: Sisters Marcia, left, and Julie Blount lead the Blount Boats Inc. shipyard in Warren, which was founded by their father and recently celebrated its 75th ­anniversary.
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Meet the Makers: Warren shipyard has navigated the waters of boat-building...

Manufacturing
(Editor’s note: This is the 27th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
FROM STUDENT TO TEACHER: Alex Enamorado became a producer and engineer at TRIAD Recording in Warren after completing the studio’s 24-week TRIAD Recording Arts Certification program. 
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Warren recording studio adapts to stay in tune with changing industry...

Entrepreneurship
Stepping just a few feet from the hallway into the studio space at TRIAD Recording in Warren, there’s an undeniable change in the air. It’s...
FULL HOUSE: Last year’s Good Trade Makers Market at The WaterFire Arts Center in Providence was filled with vendors and shoppers. This year’s event was scheduled to take place on Nov. 23 and 24, with a second Good Trade Makers Market taking place in Burlington, Vt., on Dec. 7 and 8.
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This pop-up market travels across state borders

Economy
As the busiest shopping season of the year draws closer, a flurry of pop-up makers markets is once again on the horizon for small...
MAKING IT WORK: Randy Snow, vice president of jewelry maker Snow Findings Co. in Warwick, says part of the reason he got into the industry and took on the family business, founded by his grandfather in 1951, was to learn from his father, who was the owner and operator before handing the reins over to his son, and to continue what his family had built.
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Finding ways to remain a fixture

Business Services
PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: Snow Findings Co. DECADES AGO, when Rhode Island was commonly called the jewelry manufacturing capital of the world,...
WHERE IT STARTS: Cathryn Kennedy, food operations manager at Wright’s Dairy Farm Inc., walks through a cow barn at the North Smithfield farm. As many as 200 cows produce the milk that farm employees process, pasteurize and either churn into ice cream or bottle. 
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The ‘Wright’ place for milk, ice cream

Business Services
PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: Wright’s Dairy Farm Inc. CATHRYN KENNEDY MAKES her way past one of the barns at Wright’s Dairy Farm...
ASSEMBLY LINE: José Nunez Pichardo ensures jars of salsa are capped at the Plants to Food LLC manufacturing facility in Lincoln.
PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Producing food the natural way

Business Services
PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: Plants to Food LLC TO MANY, a transition from beef to plant-based food may seem like a leap...
TOTAL PACKAGE: Wardwell Braiding Co. Vice President John Tomaz points to one of the company’s braiding machines on its factory floor in Central Falls. Wardwell not only designs, builds and sells the machines; it also produces and provides replacement parts and performs repairs.
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Woven into worldwide success

Business Services
PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: Wardwell Braiding Co. JOHN TOMAZ FLIPS a switch and a familiar mechanical humming echoes through Wardwell Braiding...
THE END RESULT: International Packaging Corp. CEO John Kilmartin, standing right, speaks with employees Vera Cruz, left, and Marybell Berdugo at a station where presentation boxes are packed for shipping. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Staying afloat against overseas competition

Business Services
PBN Manufacturing Awards 2024 MEET THE MAKERS: International Packaging Corp. IN WHAT REMAINS of Rhode Island’s once globally renowned jewelry-making sector, it’s the innovative and...
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