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GUIDING HAND: Emily Hall, Union Studio director of marketing and new-business development, has risen through the ranks to get where she is today. She is pictured with Union Studio principal Douglas Kallfelz. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Finding a home on the business side of art, design

As the director of marketing and new-business development for Union Studio in Providence, Emily Hall is responsible for brainstorming marketing strategy and finding new...
GIVING HOPE: From left: Clínica Esperanza/Hope Clinic Vida Sana Director Lavinia Velazquez, Medical Assistance Program Center case manager Luz Betancur and Together We Insure A Safer Tomorrow Assistant Program Manager Angela Amaral. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Helping others a calling she always answers

Lavinia “Vinnie” Velazquez has spent a career in the human-services field working with the homeless who might have chronic mental-health issues, working with those...
LARRY ATHAN sees 2012 as a good time to update estate planning, specifically using grantor retained annuity trusts. / COURTESY POSTERNAK BLANKSTEIN & LUND

Five Questions With: Larry Athan

Larry Athan has been practicing law for more than 30 years in the areas of tax, trusts and estates, and employee benefits as a...

Conn. bankers provide financial literacy programs

WATERBURY, Conn. - More than 50 employees from Webster Bank will participated in Junior Achievement’s “JA in a Day” program at Tinker Elementary School...

Landfill’s new recycling program to go statewide

Residents in Burrillville and North Smithfield are participating in a pilot program to test the R.I. Resource Recovery Corporation’s new recycling program and equipment....
LIFE'S A BEACH: Tara Mulroy, owner of Tara's Tipperary Tavern, surveys her business' damaged beach deck. Her lawyer says she is seeking options to protect the business. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

Town seeks answers to beach erosion

(Updated May 30, 2012) With beach erosion threatening to cut a piece of South Kingstown from the mainland, the Coastal Resources Management Council has approved...
U.S. SENATOR Jack Reed announces a $1.2 million grant to Rhode Island from the EPA to help four Ocean State organizations clean up brownfield sites across the state.  / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/JOSHUA ROBERTS

R.I. lands $1.2M from EPA to clean brownfield sites

WASHINGTON – Thanks to a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Rhode Island will be receiving $1.2 million in federal funding to help...
THE HOUSE Corporations Committee decided to hold off on passing the Hospital Conversions Act, a bill that could help Steward Medial's purchase of Rhode Island hospitals. / PBN FILE PHOTO/DAVID LEVESQUE

House holds Hospital Conversions Act

PROVIDENCE - Those counting on the Hospital Conversions Act to be approved May 24 by the House Corporations Committee will have to wait until...
THE WESTERLY Community Credit Union has received a $100,000 grant to help secure home ownership for low to moderate income households.

WCCU receives grant for down payment assistance

WESTERLY - The Westerly Community Credit Union has received a $100,000 grant to help secure home ownership for low to moderate income households. On...

Five Questions With: Julia Anne M. Slom

Julia Anne M. Slom is a senior vice president and team leader of Washington Trust’s commercial real estate group. Her focus is developing the...
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