UMass professor nets $300K for scallop research
PROVIDENCE – University of Massachusetts Dartmouth professor Kevin Stokesbury was awarded $302,091 in grants from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as part of...
Local food businesses awarded $210K from DEM
PROVIDENCE — The R.I. Department of Environmental Management and its partners awarded more than $210,000 in grants from the Local Agriculture & Seafood Act...
Feb. 1% meal and beverage tax collection totals $2.1M
PROVIDENCE- Collection of the 1 percent meal and beverage tax in Rhode Island reached $2.1 million in February, a 38.8 percent increase from $1.5...
Pizza wars breaking out in R.I.
(Corrected at 12:13 p.m. to fix Westerly location in second paragraph.)
Pizza is in the spotlight. Gourmet pizza, grilled pizza, wood-fired pizza, coal-fired pizza, brick-oven...
Commerce RI authorizes $14.7M in incentives for companies’ expansion, relocation plans
PROVIDENCE – State officials authorized up to $14,655,000 in incentives Monday intended to attract two new companies to Rhode Island and encourage two existing...
$110M food-manufacturing facility proposed for Rhode Island
PROVIDENCE – A company affiliated with the massive Dutch food-industry retailer Ahold Delhaize is seeking nearly $2 million in state corporate incentives to locate...
TextUp takes home top honors at 2018 R.I. Business Plan Competition
PROVIDENCE – Michelle Petersen, a Brown University student who developed a low-cost software package that lets social workers efficiently manage documents and information flows,...
Fresh food, ingredients spice flavor of Gracie’s
At just 26 years old, Ellen Gracyalny opened Gracie’s on Providence’s famed Federal Hill and differentiated her restaurant from the lineup of great Italian...
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