Tag: Covid-19
Citizens Bank donates $1 million to Feeding America
PROVIDENCE – Citizens Bank has joined forces with Feeding America for the third consecutive year, donating $1 million to efforts to fight hunger, according...
R.I. COVID-19 cases rise by 582 over weekend, with 7 more...
PROVIDENCE – Cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island increased by 582 from Oct. 16 through Sunday, with seven more deaths, according to the R.I....
Feds unveil plan to get coronavirus shots to nursing homes
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal health officials on Friday unveiled a plan to get yet-to-be-approved coronavirus vaccines to nursing home residents free of charge, enlisting...
COVID-19 cases in R.I. rise by 198, with 3 more deaths
PROVIDENCE – Cases of COVID-19 in Rhode Island increased by 198 on Thursday, with thee additional deaths, the R.I. Department of Health said Friday.
Cases...
Report: Affordable housing continues to be out of reach for many
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island may have seen economic gains in 2019, but 2020 revealed the stark disparities in housing and economic security for safe...
Are you satisfied with Gov. Gina M. Raimondo’s ongoing response to...
Gov. Gina M. Raimondo and other elected officials received strong support from PBN readers back in March for the job they had done up...
Looking to turn fitness passion into lifelong career, IT consultant opens...
Fitness has been integral to Phillip Carroll’s life for as long as he can remember.
The former high school athlete began weightlifting after joining the...
Riffraff sells books like no one else
It seems fitting that a book was the inspiration for Riffraff Bookstore + Bar’s name.
Tom Roberge, co-owner of the Providence business, credited the name...
Clinical trial on plasma makes headway in R.I.
Rhode Island Hospital is one of 30 medical facilities nationwide testing whether a plasma-based treatment for COVID-19 that has been approved for emergency use...
Coverage safety net has plenty of holes
COVID-19 can do more than torment patients physically. It also clobbers some financially.
Even though many insurers and the U.S. government have offered to pick...

















