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POWERFUL PAIR: Solid State Power Corp. manufactures batteries for boats and aquatic vessels, drones, mining equipment, data center backup systems and scientific equipment, and ships them worldwide. Pictured from left are Phil Calef, father of founder and CEO Tom Calef, and assembly technician Jaquir Som at the company’s Pawtucket manufacturing facility.
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MICHAEL SALERNO

Meet the Makers: Pawtucket battery maker takes power to the extreme

(Editor’s note: This is the 49th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
SPREADING OUT: University of Rhode Island public health professor Wenhui Feng examines a map of dollar stores in Rhode Island, most of them concentrated in urban areas. Feng is leading a new study on dollar stores and the food that is purchased there. 
PBN PHOTO/STEPHANIE BERNABA

Dollar stores and diet the focus of URI-led study

For Rhode Islanders who live in neighborhoods without a full-service grocer, a so-called dollar store can be a convenient and affordable place to buy...

R.I.’s cannabis reset proving costly

For Rhode Island businesses that spent years preparing to enter the state’s expanding adult-use cannabis market, the licensing process has become a costly reset. The...

Lists: Rhode Island Health & Dental Insurers

Total lives covered: 1,254,033 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by Mesj Associates. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to...

Lists: Rhode Island Commercial Real Estate Sales – Retail

Sales ranked by square footage: 1. 111 High Street Pawtucket 42,917 2. 248 Post Road Westerly 33,773 3. 1237 Main Street West Warwick 23,000 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by...

Lists: Rhode Island Commercial Real Estate Sales – Office

Sales ranked by square footage: 1. 50 Enterprise Cntr Middletown 75,000 2. 480 Jefferson Blvd Warwick 69,700 3. 300 Crossing Blvd Warwick 66,000 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by Mesj...
FASTER ACTION: Johnson & Wales University is one of two Rhode Island colleges that offer three-year degree programs in certain fields of study. The other is New England Institute of Technology. A growing number of U.S. higher education institutions have established three-year programs in recent years. 
PBN PHOTO/ANNE EWING

Three-year degrees gain ground on campuses

Giles Sims, 34, was sick of getting passed over for jobs because he didn’t have a college degree. But with a wife and a widowed...
Jason Kelly / PBN PHOTO/STEPHANIE D. BERNABA

Five Questions With: Jason Kelly

Jason Kelly | Director, Bryant University Chafee Center for International Business 1. What does the Chafee Center’s new World Trade Center designation mean for Rhode...

Lists: Rhode Island-Based Banks

Total assets: $245.8 billion SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by Mesj Associates. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists, or to...

Lists: Private Secondary Schools

Total high school enrollment 2025-2026: 7,250 SUBSCRIBERS: Click here to view the complete list. List researched by MESJ Associates. For information about participating in PBN’s Top Lists,...
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