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PROVIDENCE BUSINESS NEWS has named 24 honorees for its 2024 Manufacturing Awards program.

Marquis, Williams among 24 honorees for PBN’s 2024 Manufacturing Awards

PROVIDENCE – Dave Marquis, president and co-owner of Lincoln-based ChemArt Co., has been named the 2024 Strategic Leadership Award winner for Providence Business News’...

CCRI cuts ribbon on Bally’s-funded casino training room

LINCOLN – The Community College of Rhode Island on Thursday held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Flanagan Campus to mark the opening of its...
PROMISING PATH: Keishla Aponte, a participant in Year Up’s business operations job training program, was hired by BankFive and now works at its Customer Contact Center in Fall River.
PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

BANKING ON DIVERSITY: Collaboration changing faces of industry

Nationally, banking was long known as a white-male-dominated industry. But Rhode Island is taking steps to change that with BankForward, an initiative that aims...
PREP WORK: Randall ­Bonilla sterilizes instruments for patient use at The Providence Community Health Centers Inc.
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DENTAL PAIN: Workers in demand amid efforts to boost pay, reimbursements

Dentists and state labor specialists say there’s a shortage of dental professionals – doctors, hygienists and assistants – in Rhode Island, and it could...
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A new economic hub is taking shape

The R.I. Life Science Hub was created by the General Assembly in 2023 as a quasi-public agency ­funded with an initial investment of $45...
CUTTING EDGE: Garrett McKinnon landed a job as a composites technician at Moore ­Brothers Co. in Bristol after graduating from the IYRS School of Technology & Trades, which 
he enrolled in after deciding he wanted more than working long hours at a boatyard.
COURTESY JAKE RAPOZA

ROOM TO GROW: Marine trades offer jobs, training for all ages

Garrett McKinnon wanted to advance his career. He was working long hours at a boatyard and enjoyed it but wanted more. As he researched educational...

RIPTA celebrates $1.8M CCRI bus stop enhancement

WARWICK – The R.I. Public Transit Authority, state and local officials on Friday celebrated completion of a $1.8 million project at the Community College...
CURTAIN RISING: The Providence Performing Arts Center will hold its annual Gala Celebration on Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. 
COURTESY PROVIDENCE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER

Editor’s Choice: Providence Performing Arts Center to hold annual Gala Celebration

EDITOR’S CHOICE PPAC to hold annual Gala Celebration Sept. 21 THE PROVIDENCE PERFORMING Arts Center will hold its annual Gala Celebration. The event will...
THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND has the Rhode Island Promise scholarship, which allows qualified students to attend the school tuition-free, but Massachusetts has taken it a step further by making a community college education available tuition-free for any Massachusetts resident with a high school diploma. / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

Where does Mass. move to tuition-free community colleges leave R.I.?

Massachusetts has expanded its community college tuition-free program to cover all students this fall, but don't expect Rhode Island to follow suit anytime soon. State...
THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE of Rhode Island has received an anonymous $2 million gift to launch its "CCRI Advantage" graduation pathways initiative. / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

CCRI receives anonymous $2M gift to launch graduation pathways pilot program

WARWICK – An anonymous donor has gifted the Community College of Rhode Island the largest individual private financial award in the college’s 60-year history...
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