Joe Markman
Historic Munroe Dairy has long family tradition
Twenty years ago, Rob Armstrong decided to paint one of his milk delivery trucks like a Holstein cow. When his grandfather saw the black-and-white...
‘Nanotextured’ materials eyed for better implants
The tiny springy cylinders that hold open once-clogged blood arteries may soon be getting safer and more effective.
Researchers at Brown University and Purdue University...
Clear Channel sells 201 more radio stations
SAN ANTONIO – Clear Channel Communications Inc. (NYSE: CCU), a global media and entertainment company whose properties include local radio stations WHJJ-AM, WHJJ-FM, WHJY-FM...
Convention Center parking rates rising 5% to 20%
PROVIDENCE – The price of parking in the R.I. Convention Center’s 2,500 parking spaces will rise June 1 by anywhere from 5 to 20...
Growth comes slowly<br> to South County hotel scene
As the demand for lodging in South County increases, communities and hotel developers are trying to strike a balance between the region’s preference for...
DEM offers grants for pumpout projects
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Department of Environmental Management is now accepting applications for grants to build, retrofit, replace or maintain marine pumpout facilities.
The program...
Expanding dental services<br> for northern R.I.’s poor
Aiming to address what its executive director calls “a major public health concern,” Blackstone Valley Community Health Care is turning a former bank hall...
Colleges take pains to plan for all possibilities
Charged with the welfare of thousands, Rhode Island’s colleges find themselves at the center of the disaster preparedness movement in the state, even being...
Sports boost health, team spirit alike
The cubicles open up. Barriers between managers and employees break down. Someone pokes his head out in the office and boasts, “Did you see...
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