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HOME AGAIN: Bill and Linda Bohmbach demonstrate a stair lift in the showroom at their Portsmouth company, Home Healthsmith. In two years the company, which provides adaptive mobility equipment, has grown from a home-based business to a 5,000-square-foot facility with five employees. / PBN FILE PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Removing barriers to staying home

A few steps up to a porch, an uneven threshold in a doorway or even a standard bathroom can be obstacles to living at...
FULL PLATE: Jessica Silver Wood, co-owner of Fire & Water Restaurant Group, in the kitchen at Caliente Mexican Grill in the Kingston Emporium. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

Restaurant group built on her pledge to stay fresh

By 5 a.m. some mornings, Jessica Silver Wood is at Caliente Mexican Grill preparing fresh chicken and steak, as well as guacamole, salsa and...
PINNING THEM DOWN: Rhode Island-based Linchpin has made a name for itself working with companies both locally and across the country. Pictured above are Linchpin employees, clockwise, starting at bottom: Company principals Michael Chevalier, Jason Narciso and Aaron Ware; Senior Project Coordinator Jennifer Kusiak; senior WordPress engineer Jonathan Desrosiers; and senior designer Mary Beth Murphy. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

Firm a linchpin for client success

A company built by three Rhode Island natives is bound to be committed to growing in the Ocean State, although that growth comes from...
JUICED UP: Jon Mason shows off a display of Swing Juice in Providence’s East Side Marketplace, the product of his seven-year-old effort inspired by a golf outing with a friend. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

This energy drink swings for fences

A growing Rhode Island energy beverage company started with one of those offhand, but perceptive, comments that rang true enough to launch a company. “I...
LOCKED IN: Marcos Fountoulakis, president and CEO of Johnston-based Dama, is currently overseeing the introduction of LuxLock, an innovative earring back-and-post system resulting from years of research and development. / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Dama has golden touch with jewelry

Rhode Island is still a good place for innovation and expansion in the jewelry industry, said Marcos Fountoulakis, president and CEO of Johnston-based Dama. The...
POSITIVE ENVIRONMENT: R.I. Energy Resources Commissioner Marion Gold says energy issues are more at the forefront now than when she began in the field. / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Revised energy plan will be roadmap for Ocean State

Marion Gold is Rhode Island’s second commissioner of energy resources, leading the state’s environmental planning at a critical time when climate change, increasingly intense...
SPEAKING UP: Sen. James Sheehan, D-Narragansett, speaks at a May 20 meeting of two teacher unions to discuss Commissioner of Education Deborah Gist’s future. / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Unions oppose Gist rehiring

Rhode Island’s longtime efforts to boost the quality of K-12 public education have hit turbulence with teachers unions pushing to replace state Commissioner of...
BRASS ATTACK: French horn virtuoso Eric Ruske performs at The Breakers in Newport as part of the Newport Music Festival. The classical-music event is now in its 45th season and remains a major draw. / COURTESY NEWPORT MUSIC FESTIVAL

Summer sounds fill R.I. coffers

Music is one of Rhode Island’s top summer draws, headlined by the Newport jazz and folk festivals, which unfold enticingly on the grounds of...
SURVEYING THE LANDSCAPE: DeCastro Landscaping President Gairad DeCastro started mowing lawns when he was 15 and launched his own company at 17. Now 23, he owns an expanding firm with two affiliated franchises. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Youth not wasted on DeCastro owner

At 23 years old, DeCastro Landscaping President Gairad DeCastro always has to be at the top of his professional game when he meets new...
YARD WORK: Executive Director Helen Lang says that she wants to make the Steel Yard better known in hopes of bringing more people in to get training and helping get more funding. / COURTESY STEEL YARD

Director: Steel Yard can be stronger economic presence

The Steel Yard in Providence is a unique combination of arts and technical training in welding, blacksmithing, jewelry and ceramics. Its new executive director,...
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