Providence-Warwick metro unemployment falls in April
PROVIDENCE – The unadjusted unemployment rate in the Providence-Warwick metropolitan area was 2.6% in April, a decrease from 3.9% one month ago and down...
Five Questions With: Regan Brewer
Regan Brewer is president of the Jane Addams Resource Corp., a Chicago-based nonprofit that earlier this month opened a manufacturing-focused workforce training center at...
N.B. protest pauses work on Vineyard Wind project
NEW BEDFORD – Work on a highly touted wind farm project off the Massachusetts coast was shut down because of a protest over diversity...
Why Woonsocket’s sewage treatment plant can’t afford to fail
You smell it before you see it: a faint sour tinge to the breeze blowing out from the Woonsocket Wastewater Treatment Facility.
It’s hardly a...
Shipyards celebrate $1.4M in federal funding
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Representatives from both J. Goodison Co. and Senesco Marine LLC shipyards joined state and local officials Friday to celebrate $1.4 million...
PBN honors top Business Women for 2023
PROVIDENCE – Paula Iacono at first didn’t set out to be a fundraiser. But, she said, “it happened.”
Iacono, the executive director of the Chartercare...
Prichett continuing his father’s illuminating work at Lumetta
(Editor’s note: This is the ninth installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
Westerly center is designed to build on a military background
Though decades ago, T.J. Smith still remembers the camaraderie and sense of purpose he felt during his time as a member of the Rhode...
Pickell named 2023 R.I. Small Business Person of the Year
CRAIG PICKELL, CEO and president of Lincoln-based abrasive manufacturer and supplier Bullard Abrasives Inc., was named the 2023 Rhode Island Small Business Person of...
Neronha sues manufacturers of ‘forever chemicals’
PROVIDENCE – R.I. Attorney General Peter F. Neronha announced Thursday that he has filed a lawsuit against the manufacturers of “forever chemicals,” most commonly...
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