Real estate firm adds Newport affiliate office
William Raveis Real Estate, Mortgage & Insurance, New England’s largest privately held, family-owned real estate firm, has added a Newport office to the company’s...
R.I.-based freight carrier opens Houston office
Arpin International Group has opened a customer service office in Houston, expanding the number of the company’s operation and sales centers to 13. Arpin...
R.I. program targets minority companies
To Stanford Cameron, there’s no doubt that minority-owned construction companies and minority contractors aren’t getting enough work.
Cameron, president of the Center to Advance Minority...
Limits to growth for oysters? <br> Wild-harvest advocate asks for CRMC review
Moonstone Oysters’ production has grown at a rate of about 25 percent per year for the past 10 years.
Robert Rheault, owner of the...
Rebuilding hope, and a bit of local history
Odd as it sounds, there is common ground between old diners in which people once shared coffee, eggs and companionship, and inner-city teenage males...
Olneyville Square trash cans stir political tempest
The trash cans seem innocuous at first glance. Simple block text cut out of the metal panels on the sides written in English and...
Veteran Providence planner takes key role in Boston
In recent years, the City of Providence has undergone an amazing transformation, and a man who played a key role in that rebirth from...
Businesses must adapt to ‘flat-world’ issues
Our spherical world has been declared flat once again. And if your company has any age on it at all, you have likely found...
Providence metro region lags in GDP growth in ’05
The nation’s 363 major metropolitan areas accounted for 90 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product in 2005, according to experimental data released last...
Canadian textile maker set to use Quaker assets
When Victor Innovatex Inc. starts producing fabric for the upholstery business in Fall River at some point in the next few weeks, the Quebec-based...











