Tag: Christopher Beauchamp
Local shops prepare for Small Business Saturday, holiday shopping blitz
WOONSOCKET – With Small Business Saturday just days away, Rhode Island retailers are gearing up for the annual after-Thanksgiving holiday shopping campaign that encourages...
Woonsocket officials look to burn contracts and sell off regional wastewater...
Woonsocket has had enough.
Enough of the stink that stretches for miles and lingers for days. Enough of the sewage-laden trucks rumbling down local roads....
As funding shrinks, focus on training goes local
In response to unpredictable federal funding and constrained state budgets, officials at the nonprofit organization Skills for Rhode Island’s Future say they’re adapting their...
Report: Woonsocket bans homeless encampments on city property
WOONSOCKET – The City Council on Monday passed a pair of measures to address the homeless crisis, including banning encampments on city property, WPRI-TV...
SkillsRI launches Woonsocket Small Business HUB
WOONSOCKET – Skills for Rhode Island’s Future has launched the Small Business HUB to help empower entrepreneurs and small businesses across the city.
Located inside...
In two disadvantaged R.I. cities, a pilot business program focuses on...
Olga Saucedo made her lifelong dream of owning a restaurant come true, opening Cultura Mixta Family Restaurant in Central Falls last spring.
In May 2024,...
Social Enterprise Greenhouse launches GROW Woonsocket to enhance business development
WOONSOCKET – A local business development resource organization is now branching out with a new initiative to help provide support to small businesses closer...
R.I. Infrastructure Bank issues $20M in loans for Pawtucket, Woonsocket drinking...
PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank has closed on a $15 million loan to the city of Pawtucket and two loans to the...
Woonsocket Mayor Lisa Baldelli-Hunt resigns from office immediately
WOONSOCKET – Lisa Baldelli-Hunt, who has served as the city’s mayor for about a decade but ran into recent controversies within the last couple...
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