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R.I. unemployment rate dips slightly to 3% in April

CRANSTON – Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment in April was 3%, one-tenth of a percentage point less than March, the R.I. Department of Labor...

BankRI grants a combined $93,000 to 28 nonprofits

PROVIDENCE – Bank Rhode Island has awarded $93,000 in grants to 28 local nonprofits to support programs that focus on education, human services and the...

12 Providence art nonprofits share $500K in ARPA funds

PROVIDENCE – Twelve arts and /or culture-based nonprofit organizations will share $500,000 in grants from the city's federal American Rescue Plan Act funds, Mayor...

Five Questions With: Lynne McCormack

1.  How do you envision expanding Rhode Island’s commitment to the arts? My work has always been centered on making the arts accessible to all...

R.I. unemployment rate dips to 2.9%, a 30-year low

CRANSTON – Rhode Island’s economic recovery continued in May with the monthly unemployment rate dropping three-tenths of a percentage point from April to 2.9%,...

Starkweather & Shepley Underwrites Westerly’s Colonial Theatre Internship Program

EAST PROVIDENCE, RI AUGUST 2021– Starkweather & Shepley Insurance Brokerage Inc. (S&S), is proud to have supported the Colonial Theatre, in Westerly, Rhode Island,...
NOT QUITE SHOWTIME: J.L. “Lynn” Singleton, Providence Performing Arts Center president, says getting the theater up and running to the level it was before the pandemic won’t be “like turning the light switch on.” / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Curtain will go up again, but slowly

J.L. “Lynn” Singleton, president of the Providence Performing Arts Center, has had to overcome hurdles since joining PPAC nearly four decades ago. The COVID-19...
FIGHTING ON: Barnaby Evans, founder and executive artistic director of ­WaterFire Providence, says the nonprofit will survive the pandemic. He’s pictured in front of a stage erected in a parking lot for an outdoor play.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

We’re all invested in fight to keep tourism, arts alive

Amid the plight of those struggling daily to pay for food or rent or dealing with the devastating loss of someone to COVID-19, the...
CONTEMPORARY VIEW: Bobbie Lemmons, right, founder and creative director of Atelier Newport, in the gallery with ­Michele Maker Palmieri. Lemmons focuses on emerging and midcareer artists.
 / PBN FILE PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Newport gallery grows with city

(Updates throughout to add Palmieri as owner and clarify Lemmons' role as a business partner.) For the past three years, Atelier Newport founder Bobbie Lemmons...
PROVIDENCE MAYOR Jorge O. Elorza, left, announced the launch of another round of the Providence Design Catalyst program. This year, the program will provide $150,000 to the program's cohort. Applications opened Nov. 1. On the right, R.I. Department of Labor and Training Director Scott Jensen. / COURTESY DESIGNXRI

Applications open for next round of Design Catalyst program

PROVIDENCE – Applications for the next round of the Providence Design Catalyst program are now open, Mayor Jorge O. Elorza and DESIGNxRI announced Thursday. The...
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