National Grid offering gas efficiency program
WESTBOROUGH, MASS. – National Grid’s Rhode Island natural gas customers now have energy efficiency programs similar to those that the utility7 has had in...
GTECH gains 3-year contract with Conn.
The Connecticut Lottery Corp. has awarded GTECH Printing Corp. a three-year contract worth $5 million to $7.5 million to provide instant-ticket printing services. Creative...
URI researchers find surprise change <br> in biochemistry of Narragansett Bay
NARRAGANSETT – University of Rhode Island scientists studying the sediments and plankton of Narragansett Bay have found an unexpected increase in the amount of...
Bryant adopts IBM-APC ‘green’ data center
SMITHFIELD – Armonk, N.Y-based IBM (NYSE: IBM) has teamed up with West Greenwich-based APC to create an energy-efficient data center at Bryant University, the...
Fire cuts power to hospital, 6 state departments
CRANSTON – State offices at the John O. Pastore campus were open today despite an underground electrical fire that left many departments without electrical...
AAA: R.I. gas prices rise 1¢ to $2.939
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island gasoline prices rose an average of 1 cent per gallon over the past week, after falling for five consecutive weeks,...
Mass. leads region in industrial plant openings
SUGAR LAND, Texas – Thirty-four new industrial plants are slated to begin operating this year in New England, an increase of 89 percent from...
Magazine celebrates ‘bounty’<br> of seasonal R.I. foods
The first issue of Edible Rhody featured an interview with Johanne Killeen and George Germon, owners of Al Forno Restaurant; an in-depth story on...
Save The Bay finds great demand for its programs
Students in Rhode Island and Massachusetts hold the future of Narragansett Bay in their hands, and leaders of Save The Bay want to be...
A partial victory, at last, in effort to ban cesspools
After five years of lobbying the General Assembly to phase out cesspools in Rhode Island, environmental advocates have scored a victory: the passage of...
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