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POTENTIAL PAVILION: Roger Williams Park Zoo Executive Director Stacey Johnson shows the area where a new, $12 million educational facility and events pavilion will be built if Rhode Island voters approve a $50 million “green economy” bond measure.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

MONEY MATTERS: $400M in bond issues on R.I. ballot as borrowing...

Matt Dunn and Rainer Lohmann are among the top researchers at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, but it’s tough to...
THIRTY-ONE cities and towns in Rhode Island will be voting to decide whether to allow cannabis retail sales in their communities at licensed locations. Because of a limited number of available licenses, not every community that OKs sales will have a cannabis shop within their borders. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

31 communities facing the cannabis question: Allow sales or not?

The way the state law legalizing recreational cannabis is written, it’s easier for cities and towns to allow the sale of marijuana in their...
TEMPORARY FIX: Kathleen Gannon, left, board chair of the Rhode Island Bike Coalition, rides across a temporary, boardwalk-style bridge as part of a detour along the East Bay Bike Path going over the Barrington River in Barrington with coalition members Judy Menton, center, and Chris Menton. The old bridge seen in the background is one of two along the bike path that will be replaced following an allocation of federal money for transportation infrastructure improvements awarded to the state in August.
PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Long-awaited bike bridges will use modular system

After nearly three years of uncertainty, frustration and sometimes outright pessimism for East Bay Bike Path users and alternative transportation advocates, the tentative replacement...
POPULAR PATH: ­Crystal Raviele, a health care management professional, graduated from Bryant University’s online MBA program in May. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

More universities adding online MBA degrees as demand increases

Since before the pandemic, Crystal Raviele, then the manager of ancillary services at Coastal Medical Inc. health practices, knew she was interested in a...
GHOST GUIDE: Courtney Edge-Matos indulged her interest in the paranormal and supernatural by launching Providence Ghost Tour, a guided journey through the East Side’s haunted history either by foot or by riverboat in partnership with the Providence River Boat Co.
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Learn about the East Side’s haunted history on foot or by...

Courtney Edge-Matos has been acquainted with the supernatural from a young age. As a child, she and her family lived in a haunted house...
STACEY MESSIER, general manager of CIC Providence LLC, was recently named general manager of Cambridge Innovation Center's New England region, in which she'll continue to oversee the CIC Providence campus, alongside CIC's Boston and Cambridge, Mass., locations. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Five Questions With: Stacey Messier

Stacey Messier | General manager, CIC Providence LLC 1. What is your background in entrepreneurship, and how does this inform your vision for CIC Providence, which...

R.I. awards $8.5 million to child care facility expansions, improvements

PROVIDENCE – Fourteen organizations will add or improve more than 1,200 slots at their child care centers with support from an $8.5 million funding...

275 First Student Inc. school bus employees plan to strike next...

PROVIDENCE – Service Employees International Union 1199 New England announced on Tuesday that 275 Rhode Island school bus drivers, monitors and aides with First...

ACLU files lawsuit against RIPTA, United Healthcare over data breach

PROVIDENCE – Earlier this year, Alexandra Morelli received a distressing notification: Her personal data had been compromised in an August 2021 cyberattack on the...

Entrepreneurship Center launches at Knight Memorial Library

PROVIDENCE – Entrepreneurs, artists and local businesses in the city’s West End and South Side have a new dedicated resource at the Knight Memorial...
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