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ELLEN COVELL of Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank has made about 25 U.S. Small Business Administration 504 loans in the past four years. /

SEED names Covell its banker of the year

TAUNTON – The South Eastern Economic Development Corporation (SEED) has selected Ellen Covell, a vice president and commercial lending officer at Cape Cod...

Williams to leave state service for RWU

PROVIDENCE and BRISTOL – Jerome F. Williams, director of the R.I. Department of Administration and before that, of the R.I. Department of Transportation, is...

R.I. gets $975,000 for local food and shelter aid

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will receive more than $975,000 under the U.S. Emergency Food and Shelter (EFS) Program to assist local food banks, shelters,...
NOT SO GREEN ANYMORE: Soyna Bradford, owner of Green Gal Catering in Dartmouth, has honed her business acumen through the CWE’s Power Up! course. Here she’s in the Dartmouth Grange’s kitchen, where she often cooks. /

Test of business idea is in the plan

(This is the third and final installment in an occasional series on the issues and challenges that confront enrollees in the 13-week Center for...

MIDC stops making new loans

A Providence-based nonbank lender catering to “underserved” small businesses owned by minorities and women has stopped taking new loan applications and is considering overhauling...

South County Hospital to open cath lab

South County Hospital plans to open a $2 million diagnostic cardiac catheterization lab early next month, staffed by local physicians and backed up by...

Retired DEM official lauded for organizing enforcement

After more than 30 years at the R.I. Department of Environmental Management, Dean Albro retired in September as the chief of the Office of...
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Women’s initiatives are thriving in R.I.

A little more than one year ago, law firm Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP launched its women’s initiative, Women AdVocates for Enterprise, or WAVE,...

Author: Minorities’ access to law schools limited

In arguing against what he sees as the too-lofty entry requirements imposed by American Bar Association accreditation for United States law schools, Massachusetts School...
ALL THAT’S FIT: Since taking over The Providence American in 2006, Peter Wells has aimed to include content for people from varying backgrounds, not just blacks. /

Paper’s focus is on the positive

Since the late 1800s, Rhode Island has been home to a number of newspapers aimed at the black community. That tradition continues today with...
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