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Lists: Property & Casualty Insurers

Total premiums from 2023: $9.5 billion SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make additions or...

Lists: Employee Benefit Administrators

Total local employees providing employee benefit services: 338 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make...

List: Internet Access Providers

Ranked by oldest: 1. Verizon Communications Inc. | Year founded: 1870 2. Cox Communications Inc. | Year founded: 1962 3 (tie). OSEAN Inc. | Year founded: 1999 3 (tie). Towerstream Corp....

List: Web Development Firms

Ranked by employees: 1. (add)ventures | Employees: 86 2. RDW Group Inc. | Employees: 72 3. Brave River Solutions Inc., a Vertikal6 Co. | Employees: 28 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view...
STUCK IN NEUTRAL: Woonsocket City Council Vice President Valerie Gonzalez, left, and Michelle Taylor, an official at the nonprofit Community Care Alliance, stand with the “Dignity Bus.” The city used $150,000 of its American Rescue Plan Act aid to purchase the 20-bed emergency shelter for the homeless last year, and the alliance operated it. But funding for ongoing costs ran out and the bus has been dormant since May 31. Gonzalez says more funding is coming. 
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PAUL J. SPETRINI

WINDFALL WOES: Some R.I. communities slow to deploy ARPA millions before...

When Rhode Island cities and towns were awarded more than $500 million in COVID-19 relief money three years ago, it was a welcome infusion...
THE END RESULT: International Packaging Corp. CEO John Kilmartin, standing right, speaks with employees Vera Cruz, left, and Marybell Berdugo at a station where finished presentation boxes are packed for shipping. 
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Meet the Makers: Nimble moves keep Interpak going strong amid overseas...

(Editor’s note: This is the 24th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
COMPONENTS FOR the Revolution Wind offshore wind farm sit ready for delivery at the port in Providence earlier this year. / PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

Will Mass. wind farm’s blade failure affect Revolution Wind?

As crews continue to clean up debris from a destroyed turbine blade at a Massachusetts wind farm and a federal agency investigates what went...

Lists: Defense Contractors

Total local employees: 11,133 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to make additions or corrections, call...
UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Michelle Wilcox, 
CEO and president of Crossroads Rhode Island, stands in front of the Summer Street Apartments project in Providence, a five-story development by Crossroads that will feature 176 single-bed residences for those who were previously homeless.
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MICHAEL SALERNO

Tapping the private sector: Could R.I. businesses provide more affordable housing...

As Martha L. Wofford stood at a construction site in ­Providence’s West End in August 2022, the scaffolding at the site caught her eye...
FIRST CLASS: A rendering of what the $170 million Middletown middle school and high school complex is expected to look like when completed in 2027. The building will be constructed at the site of the existing middle school on Aquidneck Avenue. 
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R.I. schools undergoing $1.3B worth of changes

When it comes to public schools, they don’t build them like they used to. In a move away from the traditional New England schoolhouse system...
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