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FROM LEFT: Joseph Kotula, Ed Pelletier, Erin Foley, Nicholas DiLello, Jr., Andrew Pelletier, and Donna Ricci from Barnum Financial Group, an office of MetLife, stand with students from The Grace School at Meeting Street. Students recently received donated bicycles from the friends of Foundation for Life Inc.

Meeting Street gets<br> bicycle donations

Nonprofit 12/06/2013

PROVIDENCE – Friends of The Foundation for Life Inc. recently visited Meeting Street in Providence and donated a dozen bicycles and helmets to the...

WISTANLEY ENTERPRISES LLC and Surrey Equities LLC have sold the Wal-Mart and Kohl's properties attached to the Rhode Island Mall for $33.35 million. The properties total 226,515 square feet. / COURTESY GOOGLE MAPS

Rhode Island Mall anchors sold to undisclosed buyer for $33M

Economic Activity 12/05/2013

WARWICK – The owners of the Rhode Island Mall have sold the Wal-Mart and Kohl’s properties to an undisclosed buyer for $33.35 million. According to...

Unitarian group boycotts Renaissance Providence Hotel

Personnel 12/05/2013

PROVIDENCE – In response to an ongoing labor dispute at the Renaissance Providence Hotel, the Boston-based Unitarian Universalist Association announced at a rally Wednesday...

UMass seeks funding to support second tuition, fee freeze

Education 12/04/2013

BOSTON – The University of Massachusetts is seeking $519 million in state funding for the new fiscal year that starts July 1, a sum...

Rhode Island nonprofits get a little help on ‘Giving Tuesday’

Nonprofit 12/03/2013

PROVIDENCE – Some Rhode Island nonprofits are benefiting from #GivingTuesday, an online movement launched last year as a way to promote giving during the...

DR. FATEMEH AKHLAGHI, a University of Rhode Island professor of biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences, has received $1.65 million from the National Institutes of Health to study a new treatment for alcoholism in collaboration with Dr. Lorenzo Leggio of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

URI professor wins grant to study possible alcoholism treatment

Education 12/03/2013

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The National Institutes of Health has awarded a University of Rhode Island pharmacy professor a $1.65 million grant to study a...

KEEPING TABS: Dr. Albert Puerini, left, CEO and president, Rhode Island Primary Care Physician Corp., and Noah Benedict, chief operating officer at the corporation, with the database. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN CORP.

Online network improves efficiency

Government 11/30/2013

A secure, online network has been designed to help primary care doctors coordinate care confidentially with behavioral-health providers. Dr. Albert Puerini, president and CEO of...

BUILDING SOMETHING: Baltic Group Managing Partner Irene Schmitt surveys 400 Wesminster St. with Harold Antonson, grey jacket, city of Providence electrical inspector, and Don Hardy of Sheridan Electric. / PBN PHOTO/BRIAN MCDONALD

Determination, problem-solving push Schmitt forward

Personnel 11/30/2013

Turning around a failing institution like the former Framingham Savings Bank in Massachusetts is no small feat, but it’s one that led to Irene...

"The job draws on my strengths and experience in design, digital media, communications, business, collaborations, event planning, and entrepreneurial interest." / COURTESY EYEOFTOBIA.COM FAMILY PORTRAITS

Five Questions With: Anisa Raoof

In Their Own Words 11/29/2013

Anisa Raoof is executive director of the Providence Children’s Film Festival. She is the creator and publisher of online parenting resource Kidoinfo, co-founder of...