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Fishermen battling with changing oceans chart new course after Trump’s push...

STONINGTON, Maine (AP) – Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine's chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state's lifeblood industry...
BACK ON THE MENU: Michael Durrett Jr. and Carolyn Durrett purchased the Becky’s BBQ smokehouse restaurant in Middletown last year following the retirement of the former longtime owner, and they have breathed new life into the neighborhood favorite after reopening in August.
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Everybody’s Business: Durrett brings Carolina flavor to Becky’s BBQ in Middletown

(Editor’s note: This is the 57th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
BIG BOOST: Kristin Costa runs her small business, Pinch of Fancy LLC, with the help of culinary business incubator Hope & Main in Warren, but she started in her own kitchen and was helped by Rhode Island relaxing laws against homemade food businesses in 2022. 
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MICHAEL SALERNO

Cottage food industry booming after state relaxes homemade food sale laws

The cottage food industry in Rhode Island is booming. What were once side hustles – selling homemade food items made out of one’s own...

To Savor: A season for chilling reds

As we approach the Memorial Day weekend, I am frequently asked about which foods to cook and which wines to pair with them. Coming...
Bruce Newbury

Getting the first taste of success

It was 25 years ago in the spring of 2000 at the International Association of Culinary Professionals conference in Providence when royalty of the...
EDESIA INC. is launching a Mother's Day donation drive to help feed starving children worldwide in response to the end of funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Edesia launches donation drive after end of USAID funding

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Edesia Inc. on Wednesday launched a donation drive so the nonprofit manufacturer can continue providing food for malnourished people worldwide in...
MELISSA S. CHERNEY, who has led the Great Plains Food Bank in North Dakota for the last six years, has been named the Rhode Island Community Food Bank's next CEO. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK

R.I. Food Bank names Cherney as new CEO

PROVIDENCE – The leader of North Dakota's largest hunger relief organization will head to the Ocean State to take the top role at the...

‘There’s just no lunchtime crowd anymore’: Downtown Providence restauranteurs navigate post-COVID...

PROVIDENCE – Benjamin Sukle, owner and operator of Oberlin restaurant at 266 Westminster St., has seen many eateries come and go over the years...

Edesia’s warehouse piling up without new federal government orders

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Edesia Inc. President and founder Navyn Salem said the humanitarian aid agency's warehouse is once again piling up with life-saving food...
PLANT PROGNOSIS: Keiddy Urrea-Morawicki, director of the Plant Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Rhode Island in South Kingstown, works in the lab.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

URI lab is a real (plant) lifesaver for farms, landscapers

Roots Farm co-owner Kelli Roberts’ Asian greens were wilting and she wasn’t sure what was causing the problem, so she contacted the Plant Diagnostic...
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