Beaudreau to lead R.I. Service Alliance
PROVIDENCE – Bernard J. Beaudreau, who led the Rhode Island Community Food Bank for 11 years before leaving in 2006 to join the Chicago-based...
Unetixs sponsors online learning
NORTH KINGSTOWN – Medical technology company Unetixs Vascular Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of instrumentation for diagnosing vascular disease, has become a major...
2008 Best Places to Work to be honored June 4
PROVIDENCE – For the third time in as many years, Best Companies Group, in conjunction with Providence Business News, has named the Best Places...
Carriuolo named RIC’s next president
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Board of Governors for Higher Education last night named Nancy Carriuolo, a state education official and Rhode Island College executive,...
Rockland Trust helps fund UMass Cyber Café
DARTMOUTH – Rockland Trust Co. has donated $50,000 to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to support the creation of the Rockland Trust Cyber Café...
Sharing Newport history in Chinese
Denise Schwerin spent five years living in China, initially not knowing a word of the language, so she felt a twinge of empathy when...
Finding Nemo is now easier in R.I.
Nemo, the cute clownfish who starred in Walt Disney and Pixar Studios’ 2003 digital animation blockbuster, “Finding Nemo,” begins his adventures in the Coral...
A different view of future
Hundreds of workers and political activists marched on the R.I. State House May 2 to protest Gov. Donald L. Carcieri’s proposals to balance the...
Dems to get eyeful on solutions to climate change
When the Democrats gather in Denver at the end of August at their national convention, they could be deciding more than who will run...
DLT turning to technology for efficiency, flexibility
Since Sandra M. Powell took over as director of the R.I. Department of Labor and Training in January, there has been little in the...