Chamber dinner to honor R.I. National Guard
MIDDLETOWN – At its annual dinner later this month, the Newport County Chamber of Commerce will honor the R.I. National Guard for its long...
Sasse nominated as R.I. revenue director
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Donald L. Carcieri today announced he intends to nominate Gary S. Sasse of East Greenwich as director of a new R.I....
Top Providence official to take helm at RIPEC
PROVIDENCE – John Simmons, chief of administration under Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, will be stepping down at the year’s end to become executive...
YouthBuild Providence gets nearly $1M federal grant
PROVIDENCE – The Providence Plan has been awarded a $960,000 grant from the federal Department of Labor for its YouthBuild Providence program, which provides...
3 groups win Community-Police Partnership Awards
PROVIDENCE – In a ceremony this morning at Riverside Park in Olneyville, the MetLife Foundation honored three city organizations for their success in reducing...
For rural towns, planned protection
If you like bucolic scenes, a visit to Exeter yields the requisite stone walls, hard woods, split rail fences and characters not afraid to...
Creating a new vision for rural R.I.
A Rhode Island town without a central village, coupled with a Connecticut town with too many village centers, will function as the fulcrum for...
Snags delay next steps with RGGI
Rhode Island will probably not participate in the first regional auction for greenhouse-gas pollution allowances, as Gov. Donald L. Carcieri’s administration and the General...
Can biofuels save the planet – and wean U.S. off oil?
If the 75 million acres of corn produced annually by the United States were used just to make ethanol – a biofuel created by...
Task force to work to grow Providence arts sector
Four months ago, an Americans for the Arts study suggested that Providence’s nonprofit art and cultural audiences contribute about $111.8 million to the city’s...
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