Patricia Daddona
Homebuyers look to 100% financing
This past spring, Kathy McBride was hoping to buy a bungalow in Providence so she could move out of a mold-ridden apartment that was...
Cruise-ship traffic holding steady
The fall cruise-ship season in the port of New Bedford and Newport Harbor is lighter this year than in years past, but in an...
University engages biz community
Just days after the Sept. 5 launch of the University of Rhode Island’s Business Engagement Center, Executive Director Katharine Hazard Flynn was out in...
Five Questions With: Carie Hertzberg
Carie Hertzberg of Providence was named the executive director of Rhode Island Campus Compact in 2008. Rhode Island Campus Compact is a statewide...
Revolution players bartend for foundation
PROVIDENCE – New England Revolution team stars Kevin Alston, Darrius Barnes, Stephen McCarthy and Lee Nguyen traded their cleats for cocktail shakers on Sept....
People’s CU gives backpacks
MIDDLETOWN – People’s Credit Union employees delivered backpacks filled with school supplies to more than 100 students from all over Rhode Island on Aug....
Food Network chef to M.C. benefit
PROVIDENCE – Chef, author and TV host Dave Lieberman will be master of ceremonies at Amos House’s “Seed to Spoon,” an urban farm-to-table dinner...
Taco establishes NEIT scholarship
EAST GREENWICH – The Taco/White Family Foundation has donated $7,500 to the New England Institute of Technology to establish the Taco/White Family Foundation Scholarship...
RWU freezes tuition rates again after boosting student retention
BRISTOL – Roger Williams University has frozen tuition rates for the second year in a row, finding higher retention rates more than covered the...
R.I. lodging, restaurants continue to see modest growth in 2013
PROVIDENCE – Slow, modest growth characterized the past year in the Rhode Island lodging and restaurant industries, and more of the same is forecast...














