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SEEKING CLIENTS: Robert Wheeler, co-owner of Friends of Toto Inc., a dog day care and grooming business in Pawtucket, spent $400,000 to double his business space to accommodate growing customer demand but now he must find additional customers to cover the construction costs of expansion. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Preppin’ for RECESSION. PBN survey: Talk of a coming downturn is...

Cover Story 02/03/2023

If and when the country will slip into a recession depends on who you ask, but the gloom is already settling over Rhode Island...

HELP WANTED: R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, pictured speaking at a Rhode Island Kids Count event in January, has asked for assistance from the business community to improve Providence’s struggling schools.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Where are businesses in helping city schools?

Education 02/03/2023

Not long after the Providence Public School District was taken over by the state in 2019 to turn around the state’s largest – and...

CCRI gets $400K grant to partner with Delta Dental

Education 11/18/2022

WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island announced Friday it has received a $400,000 grant through the Strada’s Employer and Community College Partnership...

THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE of Rhode Island Foundation has received approximately $1 million from the Champlin Foundation and Delta Dental of Rhode Island to support refurbishments to the college's dental hygiene clinic. / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

CCRI receives $1M in gifts to support dental clinic refurbishments

Education 10/31/2022

WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island Foundation announced Monday that it has received approximately $1 million in multiyear capital funding gifts from...

Rhode Island Mission of Mercy free dental clinic returns for first...

Health Services 10/02/2022

PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Mission of Mercy dental clinic returned for the first since 2019 this year, providing over 450 Rhode Islanders in...

Gadbois joins Delta Dental of Rhode Island board

Health Services 05/22/2022

PROVIDENCE – Dr. Christine Gadbois, CEO of CareLink Inc., a nonprofit health care network that serves older adults across the state, is now a...

Five Questions With: Dr. Marty Nager

Health Services 01/30/2022

Dr. Marty Nager is president of the Rhode Island chapter of the Dental Lifeline Network, a national nonprofit that offers free dental care to...

Thundermist breaks ground on $8.6M dental facility

Health Services 10/24/2021

WEST WARWICK – Thundermist Health Center’s new dental building will provide enough room to care for 5,500 additional dental patients, the nonprofit community health...

AFFORDABLE ACCESS: Blaine Carroll, right, president of First Circle Inc., shows Joseph Perroni, CEO of Delta Dental of Rhode Island, the Chewsi app, which was launched in 2017 by First Circle, a subsidiary of Delta Dental. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

First Circle’s Chewsi app helps patients access dentists affordably

Health Services 10/01/2021

PBN 2021 Innovative Companies Awards Health/Wellness: First Circle Inc. Once the need for dental work arises, the issue rarely resolves on its own, but for the...