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STORMING BACK: The Andrea Hotel was badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy, but that hasn’t pushed away visitors, including, from left: Lisa and Paul Leonowicz and Laurie and Chuck DiMauro. / PBN PHOTO/ BRIAN MCDONALD

After Sandy, most beach businesses staying afloat

Upended by more than $2.4 million in beach-related damages alone last October by Hurricane Sandy, affected Westerly businesses have found creative ways to reopen...
DESPITE IMPROVEMENTS in the rate of infection for injecting drug users and heterosexuals, the gay and bisexual men are still acquiring HIV/AIDS at significant rates, according to the executive director of AIDS Project Rhode Island. / COURTESY THOMAS BERTRAND

Five Questions With: Thomas Bertrand

Thomas Bertrand, the executive director of AIDS Project Rhode Island, chairs the Rhode Island HIV Prevention Coalition and is a member of the Rhode...

Embrace employee leads bay benefit

NEWPORT – On the day before the 37th annual Save The Bay Swim, Embrace Home Loans’ employee Kelly Kittel initiated a “jeans day” to...

BankRI hosting food drive

Bank Rhode Island is hosting a seven-week food drive in each of its 18 branches across Rhode Island to benefit local food pantries. Begun...

Providence Center gets BJ’s grant

The Providence Center has received a $5,000 grant from the BJ’s Charitable Foundation, which will be used to support Home Base. The program provides more...
SOME OF the 60 children from around Providence participating in the Red Shed Bike Shop's first Bike Camp stand with their bikes. All participants received their own bicycle, lock, and helmet and learned how to ride, maintain, and stay safe with their bicycle.

Kids get bikes,<br> take part in camp

PROVIDENCE – Sixty children participated ride this summer in the Red Shed Bike Shop’s first Bike Camp. Each participant received their own bicycle from...
CENTRAL FALLS RESIDENTS sign up for Cox Communications Connect2Compete Program, which helps Americans access technology through Digital Literacy training, discounted high-speed Internet, and low-cost computers. / COURTESY COX COMMUNICATIONS/STEW MILNE

Cox offers discount Internet services to R.I. students, families

CENTRAL FALLS – Parents and children signed up Wednesday at Central Falls High School for Connect2Compete, a program dedicated to bridging the digital divide...
BROWN'S DEAN OF THE COLLEGE  Katherine Bergeron has been named president of Connecticut College. / COURTESY CONNECTICUT COLLEGE

Brown leader to take helm at Connecticut College

NEW LONDON, Conn. – Katherine Bergeron, dean of the college at Brown University, has been named the 11th president of Connecticut College. Set to take...
CREATING A FOLLOWING: An image from the Roger Williams Park Zoo Jack O’Lantern Spectacular Trail taken last fall is the zoo’s most popular Facebook post to date. Companies and marketers are utilizing “viral” social media to help draw visitors. / COURTESY ROGER WILLIAMS PARK ZOO

Marketers’ goal to stay connected

A nighttime photograph of a tree festooned with lit, hand-carved pumpkins at the Roger Williams Park Zoo went viral after it was posted on...
VENTURING OUT: Brandon Lane, Social Enterprise Greenhouse director of youth programs, discusses a math-skills summer program organized by the Northern Rhode Island Collaborative. / PBN PHOTO/MARTIN GAVIN

Camp connects math to business planning

When 126 high school juniors and seniors in northern Rhode Island started a summer program to beef up their math skills on Aug. 13,...
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