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Middletown defense contractor gets $16.8M contract

MIDDLETOWN – Rite-Solutions Inc. has been awarded a five-year, $16.8 million contract with the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport, the company announced...

Five Questions With: Larry Reagan

Larry Reagan is senior vice president, director of marine and recreational lending for OceanPoint Marine Lending, a division of Middletown-based BankNewport. He is responsible...

Prosperity Home Mortgage replaces HomeServices Lending in R.I.

PROVIDENCE – Prosperity Home Mortgage LLC, a HomeServices of America company, has announced it is expanding residential mortgage operations with offices in Rhode Island. Prosperity...

Cherrystone Angel Group accepting applications for Venture Pitch Night

PROVIDENCE – Cherrystone Angel Group, a private investment group that funds early-stage business ventures, is taking applications for a “Venture Pitch Night” event scheduled...

BayCoast Bank provides $60K to support entrepreneurs

SWANSEA – BayCoast Bank has awarded a $60,000 “challenge grant” to the South Coast Office of Entrepreneurship for All. The money will be paid in...

Feds to raise ceiling for home-sale appraisals

PROVIDENCE – For the first time in a quarter century, federal banking regulators are raising the minimal price for requiring appraisals on home sales. Beginning...
GOV. GINA M. RAIMONDO took the lead Thursday in announcing a second round of Innovation Campus funding aimed at commercializing academic research./PBN FILE PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Raimondo, URI announce new round of Innovation Campus funding

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and University of Rhode Island President David M. Dooley on Thursday announced a second round “RI Innovation Campus”...
ENERGY EFFICIENCY: Rhode Island ranked third in the nation this year in energy efficiency. That included efforts like the more than 2,100 Rhode Island homeowners who have taken advantage of National Grid's Heat Loan Program, which offers zero-interest loans to residential property owners for qualifying energy-efficiency improvements. Above, insulation is blown into the walls of a house. / COURTESY NATIONAL GRID

Rhode Island ranks third in 2019 energy efficiency report

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island was tied with Vermont, ranking third in the nation this year in energy efficiency, a new report shows. Overall, the New...

Five Questions With: Seth Magaziner

Seth Magaziner is serving his second four-year term as Rhode Island’s general treasurer after being reelected in November 2018. Magaziner graduated from Brown University,...

Student Loan Bill of Rights provides new protections for R.I....

PROVIDENCE – Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and other Rhode Island officials gathered Monday at the State House Library for a ceremonial signing of the...
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