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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...
MARTHA SHERIDAN, president and CEO of the Providence Warwick Convention & Visitors Bureau, said about 10,800 visitors will be staying for various lengths of time at five different events in the two cities this fall. / COURTESY PROVIDENCE WARWICK CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU

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...
DEBORAH A. Gist, Rhode Island's commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education, said involving the public directly in as many ways as possible will make for a better strategic plan. The process for the next five-yer plan has begun.  / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

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...
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