P&W Railroad 2Q revenue grows 11.17%
WORCESTER – Providence and Worcester Railroad Co. (Nasdaq: PWX) today posted a second-quarter profit of $320,000, a 7.78-percent decline from the year-ago period’s $347,000,...
New hotline invites tips about RIRRC
PROVIDENCE – Suspected cases of fraud, waste or abuse at the R.I. Resource Recovery Corporation (RIRRC) can now be reported via an anonymous, toll-free...
URI, higher-ed board, 2 towns to pay <br> costs at W.Kingston...
BOSTON – The University of Rhode Island, the R.I. Board of Governors for Higher Education and the communities of Narragansett and South Kingstown have...
Retail and food-service sales fall 0.1%
WASHINGTON – U.S. retail and food service sales fell 0.1 percent last month to $384.6 billion, ending a five-month rise, as a decline in...
Rails-to-Trails offers online bike-trail guide
WASHINGTON – A new Web site from a national bicycling advocacy group offers an interactive guide to trails across the country, including Rhode Island.
TrailLink.com...
APC introduces redesigned Back-UPS ES line
WEST KINGSTON – APC by Schneider Electric has introduced a newly redesigned Back-UPS (uninterruptible power supply) ES product line.
The new Back-UPS ES 350, 450,...
AAA: Gas prices down for the fifth straight week
PROVIDENCE – “Gasoline prices in Rhode Island continue to fall, a 13-cent drop over the last week,” AAA Southern New England said today in...
Fertilizer maker to build Johnston facility
JOHNSTON – Converted Organics Inc. (NASDAQ:COIN), a Boston-based organic soil amendment and fertilizer company, announced today that it plans to proceed with construction of...
Bank of America plans energy-management system
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Bank of America plans to use a new energy-management system at 3,300 banking centers nationwide to cut its heating and cooling...
Farmland values at record highs throughout the U.S.
U.S. farmland values are at a record even as the rest of the country suffers the worst housing crisis since the Great Depression, with...
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