Tuesday, September 15, 2026

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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...
STEEL TRASH CAN envelopes by artist Lu Heintz,  created for public display in Olneyville, have sparked  a controversy over the role of art in the community. /

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...
JOHN F. PALMIERI, who served as director of planning in the Cianci administration, says that experience will help him in Boston as it has in Hartford. /

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...
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