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PAPERWORK: Rivka Reynolds, a peer recovery counselor with Thrive Behavioral Health Inc., fills out some paperwork in her organization’s West Warwick office. PBN PHOTO/PAUL SPETRINI

‘There is a way out’ of mental illness; treatment demand growing...

Digital Special Editions 10/10/2025

Rivka Reynolds was a longtime activities director for an agency serving people with dementia when a post-traumatic stress disorder forced her to stop working...

RETURNING THE FAVOR: After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1988 and first working for a firm owned by a professor at the school, Edward Wojcik, owner and principal of Ed Wojcik Architect Ltd., had RISD as his first client when he opened his firm in 1997. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Edward Wojcik

Industries 08/29/2025

PBN Leaders & Achievers Awards 2025 EDWARD WOJCIK Ed Wojcik Architect Ltd. Owner and principal EDWARD WOJCIK BELIEVES he is temperamentally suited to being a leader,...

Donald Zambarano

Financial Services 08/29/2025

PBN Leaders & Achievers Awards 2025 DONALD ZAMBARANO KPMG LLP Providence office managing partner; U.S. sector leader, private equity DONALD ZAMBARANO HAS SPENT his entire 30-year career...

PREP WORK: Randall Bonilla sterilizes instruments for patient use at The Providence Community Health Centers Inc. PBN PHOTO/PAUL J. SPETRINI

DENTAL PAIN: Workers in demand amid efforts to boost pay, reimbursements

Government 09/27/2024

Dentists and state labor specialists say there’s a shortage of dental professionals – doctors, hygienists and assistants – in Rhode Island, and it could...

BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER: Stacey Messier, general manager of CIC Providence LLC, helped attract companies from various industries, including offshore wind, tourism and telecommunications that now call 225 Dyer St. home.  PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

CIC Providence’s Messier maintains good company under one roof

Business Services 04/26/2024

PBN C-Suite 2024 Awards RISING STAR: Stacey Messier CIC Providence LLC | General manager PEOPLE AT CAMBRIDGE INNOVATION CENTER, or CIC, use the term “creative collisions”...

BACKBONE: Shaun Cournoyer, administrator of nursing and long-term care facility The Friendly Home in Woonsocket, said certified nursing assistants are the “backbone” of the facility.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

HELPING HANDS: Online classes, grants speed training of desperately needed CNAs

Education 09/29/2023

Anyone who has spent even a little time in a nursing home or hospital has seen whose hands do the essential feeding, dressing, cleaning...

SOURCES OF COMFORT: Marisa Head, center, has built her North Attleborough business Marisa’s Skin Care LLC in nine years with the help of her two daughters, Stephanie Howard, left, and Rachel Howard.  COURTESY JESSIE WYMAN PHOTOGRAPHY

Head’s customer service goes beyond skin deep

Business Women 05/26/2023

PBN 2023 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Marisa Head | Marisa’s Skin Care LLC owner and founder ACNE, SUN SPOTS, scars and pockmarks, wrinkles. People...

FAMILY JEWELS: Haverhill Leach, founder, owner and designer at Haverhill Leach Inc. in Warren, says the company designs using birth month gemstones make a great gift idea for women who want to remember and honor family members.  PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Haverhill Leach’s jewelry bears extra emotional significance

Business Women 05/26/2023

PBN 2023 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Haverhill Leach | Haverhill Leach LLC founder, owner and designer HAVERHILL LEACH WORKS with her husband in her...

HELPING OUT: Shirley Moore, left, owner of Be Moore Interpreting LLC in Pawtucket, provides interpreting services for the attendees at the Latino Financial Summit at Farm Fresh in Providence.  PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Moore’s interpreting skills are in high demand

Business Women 05/26/2023

PBN 2023 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Shirley Moore | Be Moore Interpreting LLC owner IT WASN’T UNTIL she took a Bootstrap Bootcamp course for...

ON TARGET: Natalia Pelletier, Poyant Signs Inc.’s senior project manager, and Bill Furey, the company’s channel letter production lead, stand over a sign made for Target.  COURTESY POYANT SIGNS INC.

Poyant thrives by employing old family values and new efficiency methods

Business Services 11/11/2022

PBN Manufacturing Awards 2022 OVERALL EXCELLENCE AT A MIDSIZE MANUFACTURER: Poyant Signs Inc. Poyant Signs Inc., a family-owned sign-making business, was founded during the Great Depression....

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HANDIWORK: Tool maker Bobby Bianca operates a milling machine on the production floor at Warwick Hanger Co. in Westerly.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

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