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"By establishing a free walk-in clinic, we hope that patients can come to us for non-urgent health needs instead of going to the emergency room, where the wait is longer and the cost is greater."" / COURTESY CHEER CLINIC

Five Questions With: Ryan Handoko

Ryan Handoko is a Brown University undergraduate student who also is one of the founders of CHEER clinic, a clinic within Clinica Esperanza/Hope Clinic....

Clements employees donates to Food Bank

PORTSMOUTH – Employees at Clements Market in Portsmouth donated $15,000 worth of nutritious food to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank through small payroll...

Segue Institute seeks planning committee

CENTRAL FALLS – Segue Institute for Learning, a charter school opened in 2009, is actively seeking interested community-based service providers to form a planning...

Junior Achievement gets Walmart grant

PROVIDENCE – Junior Achievement of Rhode Island has received a $25,000 grant from the Walmart Foundation that will support the organization’s mission of providing...
MAKE IT COUNT: Elizabeth Burke Bryant, executive director of Rhode Island Kids Count, says that college education and career training are essential in the current work environment. / PBN PHOTO/NATALJA KENT

Students weigh in on college preparedness

College-preparedness programs here are working to engage students but need to be expanded, according to a new study that gives voice to those most...
GROWING TREND: Linn Foster Freedman says she expects to see a growth in women business leaders and executives in the next five to 10 years. / COURTESY NIXON PEABODY

Getting involved is first step to improving education

There’s busy, and then there’s Linn Foster Freedman’s schedule. Freedman, a Nixon Peabody lawyer, divides her time between the firm’s Boston and Providence offices....
PARTY TIME? Workers at Priority Management Group discuss holiday-party benefits. From left: account manager Carla Rappa, Executive V.P. for Marketing and Technology Robert B. Skeffington, CPA Richard A. Santilli and Director Kristie Sellviveiros. / PBN PHOTO/NATALJA KENT

Holiday parties making comeback this season

Jeremy Crisp and the other managing partners at Nail, a Providence communications agency, like to think of their employees as machines – sort of....
CUT ABOVE THE REST: Christiaan Salon and Day Spa has been a staple of Providence’s small-business community for nearly 30 years. Pictured above are owners Bill Oates and Sheri Petrarca, right, with co-manager Tasha Regine. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

City salon has a style all its own

Sure, being surrounded by beautiful women is nice, says Bill Oates, founder and co-owner of Christiaan Salon & Day Spa. But that’s not the...
"Planning this festival has confirmed for me that preplanning is key and that you can never be too early when it comes to getting organized to execute a festival of this size." / COURTESY BRIGHT NIGHT

Five Questions With: Alexandra Kreher

Rhode Islanders looking for a New Year’s Eve night out should turn no further than downtown Providence and the annual Bright Night festival that...

Steel Yard artists install fence at skating center

PROVIDENCE – A quintet of Steel Yard artists are installing a 385-foot sculptural interactive fence around the Bank of America Skating Center in Kennedy...
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