R.I. Coalition for the Homeless executive director stepping down
PROVIDENCE – Caitlin Frumerie, who has led the Rhode Island Coalition for the Homeless for six years, announced this week she will step down...
3 R.I. elementary schools named Blue Ribbon schools
PROVIDENCE – A trio of local elementary schools have been designated as 2023 National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education.
Clayville Elementary...
Pickell, Hazen White among 10 honorees for PBN’s 2023 Manufacturing Awards
PROVIDENCE – Craig Pickell, CEO of Lincoln-based abrasive products manufacturer Bullard Abrasives Inc., has been named the 2023 Strategic Leadership Award winner for Providence...
HELPING HANDS: Online classes, grants speed training of desperately needed CNAs
Anyone who has spent even a little time in a nursing home or hospital has seen whose hands do the essential feeding, dressing, cleaning...
BOUNCING BACK: Manager training widens career path
Think of it as a combination of a Boy Scout campfire game and a classic round of Jenga. Teams make piles of sticks, scraps...
‘Federal Hill has come back in a strong way’
Olivia DeAngelis has only worked in the hospitality industry and considers Providence’s Federal Hill “a second home.” Now the general manager for both Scialo...
Attracting more teachers will take ‘a collective effort’
Jeannine Dingus-Eason said Rhode Island College remains “on the cutting edge of teacher preparation nationwide.” Dean of the Feinstein School of Education and Human...
These Providence residents were asked how best to spend $1M in their neighborhood
If you were given $1 million to improve the health and wellness of the people in your neighborhood, how would you spend it?
That question...
Pierce named Dr. Dana Gurney learning support chair at St. Andrew’s School
COURTNEY PIERCE, a former learning support case manager and teacher at Hong Kong International School, was recently appointed as the inaugural Dr. Dana Gurney...
‘Biotechnology is an industry’
Your grandmother with Alzheimer’s disease, your friend with depression and the people we all know with cancer. Biotechnology is knocking on the door of...


















