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...
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...
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...
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,...