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FROM LEFT: The team from Nortek Inc. at the Providence Children’s Museum’s annual golf tournament: Almon Hall, Andrew Prete, Edward Cooney and Kevin Donnelly. /

Children’s Museum nets $34K from annual event

The 26th Annual Allen H. Chatterton Jr. Memorial Golf Tournament to benefit Providence Children’s Museum was held at the Carnegie Abbey Club with more...

Salve Regina to inaugurate new president

NEWPORT – Salve Regina University will formally inaugurate Dr. Jane Gerety, a longtime member of its board of trustees, as the school’s seventh president...
DESIGNED BY Saccoccio & Associates Architects of Cranston, the Meeting Street School incorporates energy-efficient HVAC systems, and carpet, flooring, ceiling tiles and furniture made with recycled materials. /

Meeting Street receives LEED certification

PROVIDENCE – The Meeting Street School has become the first K-12 school in the state to be awarded LEED certification by the U.S. Green...

Goddard to lead Newport Art Museum

NEWPORT – Elizabeth A. “Lisa” Goddard, who has served as acting executive director of the Newport Art Museum and Art Association for the past...

R.I. officials, unions still in negotiations

PROVIDENCE – The Carcieri administration and the state’s largest public employees union are still negotiating the details of an agreement that would avoid worker...
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY will return to the Statehouse on Oct. 28 and 29. The agenda has not been set. /

R.I. House, Senate to return in late Oct.

PROVIDENCE – Both chambers of the General Assembly will reconvene at the end of next month. In a brief statement, House Speaker William J. Murphy...

Bookmobile to promote libraries’ downloads

CRANSTON – Ocean State Libraries, the nonprofit consortium that coordinates services between the state’s 50 public library systems, later this month will host the...
CHINUA ACHEBE will launch a new colloquium on Africa at Brown University with a lecture this fall, the school announced today. /

Famed novelist Achebe joins Brown

PROVIDENCE – The acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, author of the 1958 classic “Things Fall Apart,” will join the Brown University faculty as the...

Davidson co-chairs R.I. Business Plan

PROVIDENCE – Larry Davidson, a principal at the accounting firm Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co. Ltd., has been named a co-chair of the Rhode...

Brown U. hopes to build new dorms

PROVIDENCE – Brown University hopes to build new residence halls at some point in the next three to five years when funds become available,...
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