Pawtucket fights to keep trash transfer station out
In the last few years, Pawtucket has made no secret of its plans to reinvent itself. In an effort to shed its image as...
New film puts spotlight on people of Federal Hill
Jon Raben is a geologist, not a professionally trained filmmaker, and until five years ago – when he dove headfirst into the neighborhood’s history...
Inventors help meet global demand for new ideas
To stay alive, some fish must stay in motion constantly, driving water through their gills to move oxygen into their bloodstream. And to stay...
Restoration program marks 1.25 million lobsters
Lanny Dellinger, a full-time lobsterman since the early 1990s, said the best thing to come out of a recently completed six-year lobster restoration program,...
Specialty tech firms serving R.I.
In February 2004, five entrepreneurs met up in a San Francisco suburb and spent a long weekend thinking up ideas for a new technology...
Newport’s North End could soon see revitalization
In the area of redevelopment, Keith W. Stokes says, Newport has been at a disadvantage for years.
Other Rhode Island communities, such as Providence and...
Collette works to revive tourism in New Orleans
Collette Vacations has been taking tour groups to New Orleans for more than half a century, lodging them in the heart of the French...
Casino gambling a perennial hot topic since ’90s
The town-wide “straw vote” on a Narragansett Indian casino in West Warwick came on a day so hot in June 1999 that then-Gov. Lincoln...
Downtown tries to lure more retail
Vacancy rates down but cost remains a deterrent
Last December, the vibrant window design at Biggles toy store looked like the embodiment of the momentum...
‘Perfect storm’ leads to housing boom in the city
During the recession of the early 1990s, housing development in Providence slowed along with the city’s real estate values. Just ask Arnold “Buff” Chace...
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