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TIGHT WEAVE: Theresia Joseph works in the packaging and receiving department at Lotuff Leather, a handmade leather goods manufacturer in Providence that designs and sells bags, suitcases and other accessories.
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Lotuff mastering art of the heirloom

(Editor’s note: This is the fourth installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
SETTING UP: Rachel Lawler, a volunteer at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Newport, organizes toys for the organization’s “­Santa’s Workshop” program, which allows families to choose from a selection of free gifts for their children.
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Volunteers come to MLK Center’s rescue

While the holiday season is always a busy time for the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Newport, this year the spike in...
RARE BREED: Dr. Thomas Bledsoe, a general internist and primary care physician at Brown Medicine’s East Providence Primary Care, says finding a primary care doctor such as him has become difficult for people in need of a new physician. Bledsoe is also president of the Rhode Island Medical Society.
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How to cure shortage of primary care docs?

When the phone rings at East Providence Primary Care, chances are there is someone in search of a new doctor on the other end. It...
HEAVY LIFTING: Cliff Moniz, a driver/warehouse worker at the We Share Hope food pantry and market in East Providence, unloads food ­donations. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Nonprofit sector overlooked key to a healthy economy

Selfless nonprofits are often the difference between needy Rhode Islanders going without during the holidays and managing to provide enough food and a few...
Sergio Sousa

Sousa inducted into CCRI’s Society of Knights and Squires

SERGIO SOUSA, regional vice president of marketing for Bally’s Twin River Lincoln Casino Resort and Bally’s Tiverton Casino & Hotel, was recently inducted into...
Patricia Raskin

Older workers are extending their prime time

It’s true that COVID-19 has fundamentally changed our lives and workplaces in the past 2½ years and the percentage of older people remaining at...
LOVE OF LITERATURE: Uriah Donnelly, right, realized his dream of owning a bookstore when he and his wife, Janet Moscarello, left, opened arc{hive} book + snackery in Warren in June.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Used bookstore and bar business building its own community in Warren

For Uriah Donnelly, owning a bookstore had long been a dream. A background in the restaurant industry, which he shares with co-owner and wife...
PAYING IT FORWARD: After overcoming anxiety with the help of improv comedy, Taylor Bruneaux, left, and her husband, Luke, are trying to share that transformative experience with others through their Kismet Improv comedy theater in Pawtucket, which offers both live shows and classes.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Improv theater finds its footing after shaky start

Taylor Bruneaux found stability and comfort in the most unscripted and seemingly unstable of places: improv comedy. The social circle and affirming “yes and” principle...

Looking back at 2022

Was 2022 a good year for your company? Yes: 80% Somewhat: 20% No: 0% Was your company able to fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic? Yes: 80% Somewhat: 20% No: 0% Did...
THE R.I. DEPARTMENT of Education will provide 13 school systems a food truck each as part of the department’s new $1.6 million Menu for Success Student Food Truck Initiative. R.I. Education Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green, fifth from right, presents check in support of initiative to students and district leadership at the Warwick Area Career and Technical Center. / COURTESY R.I. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

13 school systems to receive food trucks via RIDE’s new ‘Menu for Success’ program

PROVIDENCE – Thirteen local school systems will receive food trucks as part of the R.I. Department of Education’s new $1.6 million Menu for Success...
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