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THE MILL REHAB  will allow the IYRS to expand its boat-building and marine vocational training programs. Above, the current main classroom for its boat-building program. /

IYRS’ mill rehab attracts $500K in federal aid

NEWPORT – Rhode Island’s Congressional delegation secured $500,000 in federal money to help fund the International Yacht Restoration School’s renovation of a 177-year-old mill...
NATIONWIDE, the average price of self-serve regular today was $3.609 per gallon, a level that for Rhode Island is still 2 cents away. Above, a man fills his vehicle at a station in New York. /

R.I. gas prices surge to 3rd record high

PROVIDENCE – “Gasoline prices continue to vault to record highs, with a 15-cent increase over the last week leaving prices today on the doorstep...
WITH NEARLY EVERY Rhode Island high school football coaching staff owning Porta Phone headsets to help communicate during games, Paul, left, and John Hooper Jr. have built a winning franchise together with their father, Porta Phone inventor and former coach John Sr. /

Coach scores with headsets

There was one thing John Hooper Sr. had trouble with when he was a head football coach at a small New Jersey college decades...

Raytheon wins $241M order for air defense

WALTHAM – Raytheon Co., the world’s largest missile maker, won a contract valued at $241 million to provide Patriot air-defense equipment and support to...

A.H. Belo chief looking at ‘sensible’ cost cuts

A.H. Belo Corp. said first-quarter results fell short of its forecasts and announced plans to lower expenses to cope with the toughest newspaper advertising...
PAUL HENDRICKS, owner of Hendricks Auto Body in Uxbridge, Mass., may see more income from Massachusetts’ new ‘managed competition’ system for auto insurers. /

Wait and see on managed competition

The move to a more competitive auto insurance industry in Massachusetts is about a month old, and Paul Hendricks is still left wondering how...

Kelly Space & Tech. is planning an R.I. facility

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Kelly Space & Technology Inc. plans to open a Rhode Island facility to develop and market marine-industry applications for its...

APC-MGE promotion will help Nature Conservancy

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – APC-MGE has pledged to give The Nature Conservancy $5 for each power-backup and power-saving device sold through Earth Day, April 22. The...
MATERIAL USED for track maintenance sits in a Pawtucket freight yard where a transfer station for construction trash was proposed. The city and other opponents recently won a court ruling blocking the proposed project at the junction of Goff and Pine streets. /

Pawtucket wins long fight to block transfer station

City planners and revitalization advocates in Pawtucket are applauding a R.I. Supreme Court decision earlier this month that, they say, will keep a heavy...
THE VIBRANT SCENE on Wickenden Street early in the evening in front of Coffee Exchange is one of the reasons that new retail shops are 
moving there. From left, Marie Alfred, Mac MacDougall, 
Jennifer Rydwansky, Kara Lacey and Jenn Pohle. /

Wickenden thrives on eclectic mix

Decades ago, the aunt of Chutema Am’s mother-in-law served as a cook at the Cambodian Royal Palace. The recipes that she learned there made...
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