Kevin Shalvey
Commission tours R.I.’s industrial ports
The Rhode Island General Assembly special commission that’s tasked with studying the potential for economic growth at the state’s industrial ports toured last week...
RIAR: Median price less than $300,000 in 1Q
WARWICK – In the first three months of the year, 83 percent of homes sold in Rhode Island sold for less than $300,000, according...
Senior-living community unveils renovation work
PORTSMOUTH – Atria Aquidneck Place, a senior-living community, yesterday unveiled the work done as part of a $5 million renovation.
Along with updating the complex’s...
Cicilline named ‘green-leaning’ mayor
SEATTLE – Grist Magazine, an online news source focused on green development, has named Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline to its list of 15...
Five Questions With: Zachary Miller
As construction wraps up at the Stone House, a former membership club that’s set to open this summer as a hotel, developer Goosewing Hotels...
Feds commit $4.2M to R.I. farmland conservation
WARWICK – Rhode Island’s National Resources Conservation Service, a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has received $4.2 million in funding to preserve...
Arcade interior tops PPS ’09 endangered properties
The interior of the soon-to-be-renovated Arcade tops Providence Preservation Society’s 2009 Most Endangered Properties survey.
The list, announced last week, also includes two historic theaters,...
Doctor built a career by being in the right places
During Gail Skowron’s undergraduate college career – and, prior to that, during much of her childhood on Long Island – she wanted to be...
Students’ business plan wins $45K
Brown University students Tyler Gage and Daniel MacCombie were staying near Quito, in Ecuador, last September when they were visited by a shaman. He...
Seabees generating a buzz
When the U.S. Navy base in Quonset shut down in the 1970s and its land was turned over to the state for economic development,...
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