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JOIN THE CLUB: Bruce Cotta works out at the Newport YMCA, where he has a membership subsidized through Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island’s BlueCHIP program. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCY

Insurers make it easier to join gym

Financial Services 05/31/2014

Penny Phaneuf, 68, has been going to Gold’s Gym in East Greenwich for three years but this year, she’s only paying $5 a month. Retired...

RICH HISTORY: A rendering of a $2 million addition for a fishing museum connecting the Seaman’s Bethel, left, and the Mariner’s Home, is proposed in New Bedford. / COURTESY JM BOOTH & ASSOCIATES

N.B. museum would honor fishing industry

Economic Activity 05/31/2014

As the New Bedford Whaling Museum breaks ground on a $6.5 million expansion that began May 20, a more-modest $2 million proposal to create...

SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY'S Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy has named its inaugural group of undergraduates to a leadership development program, the Nuala Pell Leadership Program in Public Service.

Pell Center names inaugural 12 undergraduate leadership fellows

Education 05/30/2014

NEWPORT – Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy has selected 12 sophomores for leadership development training in the upcoming...

THE $8.4 MILLION RISD MUSEUM renovation includes galleries dedicated to ancient Egyptian and Asian art, as well as new spaces for the exhibits of costumes and textiles. Above, RISD Museum Conservator Ingrid Neuman, left, Lead Museum Technician Laura Ostrander handle Egyptian art in the museum. / COURTESY RISD MUSEUM

RISD to celebrate gallery openings for renovated museum

Education 05/30/2014

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island School of Design Museum is opening galleries to the public in its newly renovated 1926 Eliza G. Radeke Building...

"OVER THE last few years, in collaboration with the Global Studies department at Providence College, we interviewed 60 immigrants and refugees around the state who hail from 45 different countries."

Five Questions With: Michelle DePlante

In Their Own Words 05/30/2014

Michelle DePlante is director of community relations and Welcoming Rhode Island at the Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island. She directs community engagement and...

Decof pledges music-education scholarship

Nonprofit 05/30/2014

PROVIDENCE – The law firm of Decof, Decof & Barry P.C., has pledged to contribute $1,250 annually to establish a new scholarship in elementary...

Arthritis walk raises $65K

Nonprofit 05/30/2014

PROVIDENCE – Local residents raised more than $65,000 to fight and cure arthritis by participating in the Rhode Island Walk to Cure Arthritis on...

HINCKLEY ALLEN attorney Leon Boghossian III walks to his Providence office. At its annual meeting Thursday, the Rhode Island Foundation presented Boghossian with its Harold B. Soloveitzik Professional Leadership Award, which honors professional and personal commitment to philanthropy. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION

Hinckley Allen’s Boghossian<br> gets R.I. Foundation award

Nonprofit 05/30/2014

PROVIDENCE – Leon C. Boghossian III received the Harold B. Soloveitzik Professional Leadership Award from the Rhode Island Foundation Thursday at its annual meeting. The...

SIXTH GRADERS at Talbot Innovation Middle School in Fall River, Mass., hold books they received as part of a large book donation made by Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation and Book Enterprises LLC. / COURTESY NEWBERRY PUBLIC RELATIONS & MARKETING

‘Operation’ brings 8,000 books to school

Nonprofit 05/30/2014

FALL RIVER – An initiative dubbed “Operation: Book Drop” delivered 8,223 books to the Talbot Innovation Middle School on May 22. The Talbot donation is...

MICHAEL GOODMAN, an economic sociologist who has served as associate professor and chairman of the UMass Dartmouth Department of Public Policy and director of economic and public policy research at the Donahue Institute, will succeed Clyde W. Barrow as director the UMass Dartmouth Center for Policy Analysis effective July 1. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH

Goodman to lead UMass Dartmouth policy analysis center

Education 05/28/2014

DARTMOUTH – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has tapped Michael Goodman, an expert on the Massachusetts economy, to lead the school’s Center for Policy...

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