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AS PART OF THE Trees 2020 project, French-American School of Rhode Island middle school students planted a shade tree in the Carolyn Brassil Memorial Park. /

City teams with school to replace, care for trees

As part of a collaboration between the French-American School of Rhode Island Parents’ Association, the Providence City Parks Department and Trees 2020, students and...

U.S. renews extended jobless benefits

WASHINGTON – Rhode Island and other states with higher-than-average jobless rates will get additional federal assistance under a fresh extension of unemployment benefits...
THE COMBINED GROUP, called the United Regional Chamber of Commerce, will serve the Bay State communities of Attleboro, Bellingham, Blackstone, Foxboro, Franklin, Mansfield, Medfield, Medway, Millis, Norfolk, Norton, Rehoboth, Seekonk and Wrentham.  /

Attleboro, United Chambers merge <br> into United Regional Chamber

ATTLEBORO and FRANKLIN, Mass. – The Attleboro Area Chamber of Commerce has merged with the Franklin-based United Chamber of Commerce into a new group...
Cox Communications Senior Vice President and General Manager Paul Cronin, left, talks with Community Relations Coordinator Rosaura Fernandez, center, and Community Relations Manager Ana Paiz. /

Business is good, but so is commitment to R.I.

Rhode Island may be the smallest state, but it has provided big opportunities for Cox Communications. It was here in the Ocean State that the...
BRYANT UNIVERSITY President Ronald K. Machtley has played a key role in the positive changes on the Bryant University campus since he arrived in 1996. In addition to new buildings, the school has gone from a deficit to a $4.3 million surplus. /

Communication, planning make success possible

Anyone who visited Bryant College in the early 1990s saw a school badly in need of a new direction. Some campus facilities were looking...
Louis Giancola, president and CEO of South County Hospital, says community involvement is in line with the hospital’s mission. /

Connections deliver a healthier community

The South County Hospital is, like all the state’s community hospitals, equipped with the broad range of facilities and services one would expect in...
WILLIAM SHUEY, executive director of the nonprofit International Institute, sits with children from some of the refugee families the Providence agency tries to help get adjusted to new surroundings. /

Helping immigrants feel at home in new homes

Relocating to another country, even under the best of circumstances, is a traumatic experience. Fleeing your native land with nothing but the clothes on...
Barry Eyre, front, managing partner of Saint John Stone, stands with staff members, clockwise from left, Frank Eley, Angel Elston, Andrew Hobby, Brian Lapore and Jessica Carter, inside the company warehouse. /

Seeing opportunity in shiny slabs of stone

St. John Stone in North Kingstown is a shining example of a successful entrepreneurial endeavor, as evidenced by its selection in the Entrepreneurship category...

N.E. biotech alliance gathers for 1st time

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Biotechnology industry trade groups, companies, academic institutions and other organizations from across the region banded together today to establish the New...
THE TWO-YEAR GRANT, one of the largest corporate research grants URI has ever received, will help develop better storm-prediction models and a deeper understanding of climate change, said David M. Farmer, dean of the URI Graduate School of Oceanography. /

URI gets $630K for climate-risk studies

NARRAGANSETT – The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography today announced that it has received a $630,000 grant to study hurricanes, climate...
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