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BIG PLANS: Oak Leaf Wealth Management owners Jon Sweet, right, and Mark Williams, along with junior partner Marja Sweet, center, provide financial and retirement planning and money-management services for clients across the country. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Partnering for the future

Established in 1998, the financial-services firm Oak Leaf Wealth Management is growing its market in northern Rhode Island and efforts to serve women and...
DRINK LOCAL: Josh Roy, driver for Rhode Island Brew Bus, looks to drum up business at the recent Ocean State Beer Festival. The bus offers weekend tours of local breweries. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Craft beer: Flavor of the month or growth industry?

"MORE TOYS," Armando DeDona observed, as he cut open the shrink-wrapped hoses and heat exchanger delivered one September evening to Long Live Beerworks, the...
GOV. GINA M. RAIMONDO, right, was among attendees at a leadership conference put on by Rhode Island Women In Higher Education Friday at the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick. Also there were, from left, Annette Cerilli, director of the Bryant University Executive Development Center, Nancy Carriuolo, president of Rhode Island College, and Heather Abbott, founder of the Heather Abbott Foundation to help people afford customized prostheses. / PBN PHOTO/PATRICIA DADDONA

Women leaders discuss need to speak up, management skills

WARWICK – For four university presidents who happen to be women, running their institutions is very much like running a business. The hour-long panel of...
Carmine DiCenso is executive director of the Providence Animal Rescue League.

Five Questions With: Carmine DiCenso

For more than four years, Carmine DiCenso has applied nearly 20 years of experience in the animal welfare and human services fields to the...

Operation Stand Down gets a boost from Home Depot, volunteers

JOHNSTON – The Home Depot and Operation Stand Down Rhode Island this week put to use $20,000 to beautify the nonprofit’s new service center...

Marathons raise funds for five nonprofits

The Oct. 11 Newport Marathon and Half-marathon for 2015 in Newport and Middletown served as a fundraiser for five nonprofits. A donation of $50,000 from...

Citizens aids Pawtucket, Central Falls neighborhood projects

PROVIDENCE – The Citizens Bank Foundation has awarded six neighborhood projects in Pawtucket and Central Falls a total of $40,000 through its Growing Communities...
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH looks to have a groundbreaking for a 76,000-square-foot expansion of its School for Marine Science and Technology in New Bedford on Oct. 23. / COURTESY UMASS DARTMOUTH

UMass Dartmouth to break ground on marine science building in N.B.

NEW BEDFORD – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth expects to break ground on Oct. 23 for a $55 million expansion of its School for...
EVEN AS THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FELL three-tenths of a percentage point to 5.4 percent in September from August, the number of Rhode Island-based jobs fell 1,800 from the month before, while the number of employed Rhode Island residents fell 500 in the same period. / COURTESY DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND TRAINING

Jobless rate falls again, to 5.4% in Sept., as job count...

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island’s jobless rate fell to 5.4 percent in September, a three-tenths of a percentage point drop from August’s revised rate of...
KENDRA BORDEN, making her way to the stage at Samuel Slater Junior High School in Pawtucket Wednesday morning, was awarded $25,000 by the Milken Family Foundation for being named Rhode Island's 2015 Milken Educator Award winner. / COURTESY MILKEN FAMILY FOUNDATION

Pawtucket English teacher garners Milken Educator Award for 2015

PAWTUCKET – Kendra Borden, an English teacher at Samuel Slater Junior High School, has been named Rhode Island’s 2015 Milken Educator Award winner. The Milken...
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