Building a brand on chicken salad
It started out as chicken scratch, literally. Now, more than 57 years later, Attleboro-based Willow Tree Poultry Farm has expanded its operation area, thus...
Smooth sailing for SSV Perry
The hull of SSV Oliver Hazard Perry is towed to its new home at Senesco Marine in North Kingstown by Reagan Construction Corp. on...
Chelo’s nets $11K for The Providence Center
Chelo’s Restaurant Group recently donated $11,078 in proceeds from the Chelo’s 24th annual Golf Classic to The Providence Center to support behavioral health services...
Court upholds city edict on hotel-worker retention
A federal appeals court upheld a Providence city ordinance that requires the new owners of hotels to retain current employees for at least three...
Holiday travel to be 2nd highest in decade
WASHINGTON – If you’re planning on hitting the road over the Christmas-New Year’s holiday this year, you’ll be in good company – 91.9 million...
Historic diner to reopen on West Side
(Updated, 12:30 p.m.)
PROVIDENCE – The former Poirier’s Diner building, which operated for 50 years under many names in the Eagle Square neighborhood of Olneyville,...
Polar Express reservations to begin in January
A holiday staple for 12 years, the Blackstone Valley Tourism Council’s Polar Express train trip has expanded, including adding a half-dozen new trips this...
Restaurants feed state’s economic engine
There is not the level of drama on Restaurant Row to capture media attention as there is coming out of Washington, D.C., the Statehouse...
Prospective Biltmore buyer backs out
PROVIDENCE – Sale of the bankrupt Biltmore Hotel, scheduled to take place Friday in Superior Court, has fallen through.
Providence attorney Richard L. Gemma,...
Anti-casino citizens deny big-money backing
FOXBORO – Citizens mobilized against the Wynn Resorts-Patriot Place casino plan deny receiving any funding from Suffolk Downs, a potential competitor for the one...