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THINGS MADE WONDERFUL is a retail shop on a commercially zoned stretch of Foster. The town is looking to expand the commercial zoning to attract businesses. /

Foster looks to attract businesses

The Town of Foster wants to develop parts of a three-mile stretch of land dominated by trees and wetlands along U.S. Route 6 –...
RAMON MARTINEZ, president of Progresso Latino Inc., sees opportunity in regional planning for Pawtucket, Central Falls and 
Cumberland. /

Together, towns see a future

A coalition of groups is working to form a regional planning and economic-development strategy for Pawtucket, Central Falls and Cumberland. The Northern Rhode Island Tri-Communities...
TAISHA DIAZ, foreground, works with youth-services coordinator Shannon Hagedorn,  at Project Impact, to write a resume. Diaz is working on her GED. /

New location helps R.I. center expand job training

From almost the first day Family Resources Community Action in Woonsocket launched its employment training services 15 years ago, the program had been bursting...

Preserve R.I. gets grant for historic- preservation work

Preserve Rhode Island was recently awarded a $3,000 matching grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation Antoinette Downing Preservation Fund for Rhode Island....

Putting aside business, R.I. men gather at campus

Every year for the past 15 years, on the third weekend of February, between 40 and 60 men throughout the New England business community...
Mark A. Male /

Flooding, ‘green’ building issues in insurance

Mark A. Male has been named executive vice president of The Independent Insurance Agents of Rhode Island. He has more than 25 years of...

Small businesses deserve attention

At the second Rhode Island Economic Summit, organized by the state’s U.S. Small Business Administration office and the R.I. Small Business Development Center, the...
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Editorial Cartoon: Signs of the Times

Two signs are mounted on a highway overpass. The first sign declares, in large type: “Recession ahead*” The second, in smaller type, says: ...
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Editorial Cartoon: The dollar fell …

A man watches a TV newscast as the presenter says: “The dollar fell against all major currencies this morning – and then,...

Knowledge economy brings region together for future

Providence has undergone an amazing evolution in the last decade. The proof is found not just in the millions of dollars invested in Capital...
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