Patricia Daddona
Foundation grant to help Day One
PROVIDENCE – Day One, an organization dedicated to dealing with sexual assault as a community concern, has received a $50,000 grant from the Rhode...
Post appointed director of URI Coastal Resources Center
NARRAGANSETT – The University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Resources Center at the Graduate School of Oceanography has a new director, effective in January: Anton...
Late fall visitors more than double over last year in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – Off-peak conventions and large events booked in Rhode Island for Nov. 8 through Dec. 7 account for nearly 20,000 contracted hotel room...
Lardaro: Economic momentum continued in September
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Rhode Island sustained improvement in September of the economic momentum that had gotten a boost in August, University of Rhode Island...
State educators launching new five-year strategic plan
PROVIDENCE - State educators are launching development of the next five-year statewide strategic plan by broadly soliciting public input in a survey and recruiting...
Five Questions With: Eileen M. Hayes
Eileen M. Hayes, president and CEO of Amos House for the past 13 years, has been a social worker for 30 years. She received...
Jewelers Club donates to Home & Hospice
PROVIDENCE – The Providence Jewelers Club Foundation has donated $3,209 to the Home & Hospice Care of Rhode Island.
Home and Hospice Care provides hospice...
Boy scouts collect 130,000 pounds of food
EAST PROVIDENCE – Despite rain and cold, the Narragansett Council Boy Scouts of America collected more than 130,000 pounds of food at its 27th...
Job Lot foundation gives books to students
PROVIDENCE – The Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation and Providence Mayor Angel Taveras put nearly 2,000 books into the hands of Providence public...
Bike-a-thon raises $65K
PROVIDENCE – The bulk of the $65,000 raised in Lifecycle Inc.’s sixth annual Ride ’Round Rhody 2014 bike-a-thon this past summer is being...











