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Bruce Newbury

Stacking up a legacy

The term “icon” is tossed around often in the restaurant business. On West Main Road in Middletown, there is a genuine icon. And its owners...

URI graduate’s home services business expanding nationally after partnering with major...

LITTLE COMPTON – Patrick Brown never expected his college leaf-raking business to become a long-term career.  He started Rent Sons in 2010 at the age...
EARLY ­LESSON: ­Rebecca Johnson, owner of Sylvan Learning Center in Cumberland and Coventry, says she knew at a young age that she wanted to be a teacher. 
PBN PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Johnson’s made it her business to be a classroom ‘coach’

It’s a weekday afternoon at Sylvan Learning Center, and students large and small hover on cushioned chairs around little tables. One group of high school...

Only the strong survive in R.I.’s merger-mad real estate sales market

Paul Leys in 2000 became co-owner of an independent real estate brokerage named for co-founder Gustave J.S. White, a prominent name in Newport since...
FAMILY FUN: Sharon and Bob Bowen, owners of the Sonic restaurant on Route 44 in Smithfield, with their son Robert “Bo” Bowen Jr., 5. Bo hands out coupons to customers and helps his cousin, Peter McMichael, 17, who is a car hop at the restaurant. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Franchisee: Bob and Sharon Bowen

Sonic Drive-In | Smithfield The Pitch: This is how you SONIC! Years in business: 1½ Employees: 50 Cost to obtain franchise: $45,000 franchise fee ($1,073,000 total estimated investment) Before...
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