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DYNAMIC DUO: Greg Homol, left, fitness center director at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Marianne Sullivan, the university’s director of health services, with the 2020 Manuel Carballo Governor’s Award for Excellence in Public Service they earned from the commonwealth of Massachusetts for designing and running an on-campus COVID-19 testing facility. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH

UMass Dartmouth directors honored for COVID-19 response

Coronavirus 05/28/2021

MARIANNE SULLIVAN, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s director of health services, and GREG HOMOL, the university’s fitness center director, recently received the 2020 Manuel Carballo...

ON THE FENCE: Sen. Kendra Anderson, D-Warwick, is a freshman lawmaker and school teacher who loves all the research she needs to do on legislation. But she also thinks part-time lawmakers could do a better job if they had more time. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Is a part-time General Assembly still right for Rhode Island?

Coronavirus 05/28/2021

As anyone who has witnessed the mad scramble of legislative activity at the end of each year’s General Assembly session can attest, it is...

UI fraud still too big to handle

Coronavirus 05/28/2021

As nearly 1 in 10 Rhode Islanders knows firsthand, the devastating economic toll of COVID-19 has gone beyond lost jobs and shuttered businesses. There’s...

Some restaurants still feeling a burden

Coronavirus 05/28/2021

If the unimaginable ordeal we have come through over the past 14 months has ended – which is a big “if” – the end...

PROVIDENCE COLLEGE is requiring all full-time undergraduate and graduate students to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 by Aug. 9 in order to return to the college in the fall. / COURTESY PROVIDENCE COLLEGE

PC to require full-time students to be fully vaccinated by Aug....

Coronavirus 05/27/2021

PROVIDENCE – In a letter to students, parents and guardians, Providence College President Rev. Kenneth R. Sicard on Thursday said all full-time undergraduate and...

CVS HEALTH CORP. on June 1 will start offering customers who receive the COVID-19 vaccine a chance to win cruises, trips and other prizes. / AP FILE PHOTO/GENE J. PUSKAR

CVS will offer prizes to motivate holdouts to get COVID-19 shot

Coronavirus 05/27/2021

WOONSOCKET – CVS Health Corp. will start offering the chance to win Bermuda trips, cruises and even VIP tickets to the next Super Bowl...

R.I. reports 76 new COVID-19 cases

Coronavirus 05/27/2021

PROVIDENCE – State health officials on Thursday reported 76 new COVID-19 cases, an increase of 11 from the previous day but no new deaths. Sixty-five...

EXPANDED PROGRAMMING: As executive director of Rhode Island Higher Education & Industry Centers, Amy Grzybowski oversees the programming at the Westerly Education Center, where she has introduced new workforce training programs using the $1.7 million she has raised in the past four years. / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

Grzybowski guides people through pandemic, aids in advancing careers

Business Women 05/27/2021

PBN 2021 Business Women Awards Government/Quasi-Government Woman to Watch: Amy Grzybowski, R.I. Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner The last year has been especially busy for Amy...