Amid the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic last June, Daniel J. McKee appeared frustrated.
McKee, then Rhode Island’s lieutenant governor, took the unusual step of...
When Magdalena Andreozzi moved workshops offered by her nonprofit online during the COVID-19 pandemic last summer, she expected some bumps in the transition.
After all,...
Kevin Millonzi has “viral” coverage as part of his business-interruption insurance, but that didn’t save the West Warwick caterer from getting rejected when he...
Jack Martin | Providence Public Library executive director
On March 16, 2020, Providence Public Library’s administrative team gathered in person for the last time in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has forever altered a lot about the health care system since it first arrived in March 2020 – telemedicine, behavioral health,...
PROVIDENCE – Health insurance companies are actively partnering with community organizations, state agencies and cities to help vaccinate people who are at high risk...
PROVIDENCE – CVS Pharmacy is now selling over-the-counter COVID-19 testing kits, the company announced Monday.
CVS Health Corp. is selling three tests that have received...
PROVIDENCE – Researchers at Butler Hospital have released new data on a procedure that may help treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The study involved 10 patients...
Betsy Canino, chief of clinical services at the PACE Organization of Rhode Island, discusses PACE-RI’s efforts to administer COVID-19 vaccines to homebound people in...
WARWICK – A new partnership between Thrive Behavioral Health and CODAC Behavioral Healthcare is offering people in Kent County access to medication-assisted treatment to...
Jack Martin | Providence Public Library executive director
On March 16, 2020, Providence Public Library’s administrative team gathered in person for the last time in...
Improving our K-12 public schools to a level approaching and hopefully surpassing those of Massachusetts and other states consistently recognized for educational excellence is...
PROVIDENCE – Aidan Reilly, a senior at Brown University who helped co-found a nonprofit that addresses food insecurity by repurposing produce surplus, was named...
BOSTON – The University of Massachusetts announced Wednesday that its board of trustees approved President Marty Meehan’s proposal to freeze tuition at all four...
SMITHFIELD – Bryant University will be in search of a new provost and chief academic officer.
Glenn M. Sulmasy, who became the university’s first provost...
EAST PROVIDENCE – ONE Neighborhood Builders, a Providence-based community development nonprofit, has purchased a 36-unit apartment complex in East Providence for $3.3 million, the...
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission will hold its 35th annual historic preservation conference next week, with breakout sessions and keynote...
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Senate has approved legislation that will make permanent tax exemptions that apply to residential properties that are under construction or...
Amid the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic last June, Daniel J. McKee appeared frustrated.
McKee, then Rhode Island’s lieutenant governor, took the unusual step of...
When Magdalena Andreozzi moved workshops offered by her nonprofit online during the COVID-19 pandemic last summer, she expected some bumps in the transition.
After all,...
Kevin Millonzi has “viral” coverage as part of his business-interruption insurance, but that didn’t save the West Warwick caterer from getting rejected when he...
Jack Martin | Providence Public Library executive director
On March 16, 2020, Providence Public Library’s administrative team gathered in person for the last time in...
PROVIDENCE – Health insurance companies are actively partnering with community organizations, state agencies and cities to help vaccinate people who are at high risk...
PROVIDENCE – CVS Pharmacy is now selling over-the-counter COVID-19 testing kits, the company announced Monday.
CVS Health Corp. is selling three tests that have received...
PROVIDENCE – Researchers at Butler Hospital have released new data on a procedure that may help treat severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The study involved 10 patients...
Betsy Canino, chief of clinical services at the PACE Organization of Rhode Island, discusses PACE-RI’s efforts to administer COVID-19 vaccines to homebound people in...
WARWICK – A new partnership between Thrive Behavioral Health and CODAC Behavioral Healthcare is offering people in Kent County access to medication-assisted treatment to...
Jack Martin | Providence Public Library executive director
On March 16, 2020, Providence Public Library’s administrative team gathered in person for the last time in...
Improving our K-12 public schools to a level approaching and hopefully surpassing those of Massachusetts and other states consistently recognized for educational excellence is...
PROVIDENCE – Aidan Reilly, a senior at Brown University who helped co-found a nonprofit that addresses food insecurity by repurposing produce surplus, was named...
BOSTON – The University of Massachusetts announced Wednesday that its board of trustees approved President Marty Meehan’s proposal to freeze tuition at all four...
SMITHFIELD – Bryant University will be in search of a new provost and chief academic officer.
Glenn M. Sulmasy, who became the university’s first provost...
EAST PROVIDENCE – ONE Neighborhood Builders, a Providence-based community development nonprofit, has purchased a 36-unit apartment complex in East Providence for $3.3 million, the...
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Historical Preservation & Heritage Commission will hold its 35th annual historic preservation conference next week, with breakout sessions and keynote...
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Senate has approved legislation that will make permanent tax exemptions that apply to residential properties that are under construction or...
SUCCESS STORY: Jean Garrido, left, receives training from D.K. Kinha at Bouckaert Industrial Textiles in Woonsocket. Garrido was hired after receiving
help in career services from the state Department of Labor and Training. Gov. Gina Raimondo has expanded the state’s job training programs since taking office in 2015. / PBN FILE PHOTOS/MICHAEL SALERNO
Part of Rhode Island’s economic future depends on the state’s ability to keep pushing the envelope on job training, and that includes getting employers to keep putting “skin in the game,” according to Gov. Gina M. Raimondo. A prime example, Raimondo said, is the Westerly Education Center, a job-training facility opened in late 2016 with…
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