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TESTING: Brewer Matt Von Holten, foreground, and cellarman Eric Gonzalez, who oversees the day-to-day post-brewing processes, test the wort – the liquid extracted from the mashing process when brewing beer – at The Guild Brewery in Pawtucket. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

SOBER REFLECTION: With the craft beer boom over, breweries look...

Cover Story 11/07/2025

Matthew Gray has cleared many hurdles to keep Ragged Island Brewing Co. running. And the obstacles are still coming. Gray opened Ragged Island Brewing with...

GLASS HALF FULL? A softening market has many local craft beer makers looking for new products and customers. Pictured is brewer Matt Von Holten, foreground, and cellarman Eric Gonzalez, at The Guild Brewery in Pawtucket.  PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Craft brewers to press lawmakers for help in softening market

Editorial and Op-Ed 11/07/2025

There will always be a market for beer but it is not unlimited, as local craft beer makers have learned in recent years. In 2011,...

RIFC Corner Kicks: Soccer club helping local food/drink establishments become profitable

Business Services 06/26/2025

(Editor’s note: This is the seventh installment in a weekly series spotlighting Rhode Island FC and Centreville Bank Stadium from a business perspective throughout...

HOMEWARD BOUND: Passengers disembark from a commuter train at the Pawtucket-Central Falls station on a recent weekday afternoon. The train arrived from Boston.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

RIDING THE RAILS: Is $63M train station helping to put Pawtucket...

Cover Story 05/23/2025

The train platform at the Pawtucket-Central Falls Transit Center is bustling, and longtime Pawtucket resident Charlie Zechel is among the dozens of people waiting...

Food and beverage operators selected for I-195 District Park Pavilion

Economic Activity 07/13/2023

PROVIDENCE – The Guild Brewery and Seven Stars Bakery will be the food and beverage providers for the I-195 District Park Pavilion, the I-195...

REBIRTH? Jan Brodie, executive director of the Pawtucket Foundation, stands outside an abandoned industrial building at Conant and Pine streets in Pawtucket that city officials hope will be part of the redevelopment envisioned around a commuter rail and bus station scheduled to be finished in 2022. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Industrial area on cusp of revival in Pawtucket

Focus 07/09/2021

When Eric DaRosa’s family opened North East Knitting Inc. on Conant Street in Pawtucket, the neighborhood was in rough shape. Many of the historic mill...

Before co-founding Isle Brewers Guild, Duffy was a partner and business-development officer for marketing and communications agency Duffy & Shanley Inc., working during that time with Narragansett Beer, Strela Beer and BrewGene. / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

Partnership can be the key to success

Entrepreneurship 05/03/2019

Jeremy Duffy | Isle Brewers Guild co-founder/managing partner It has been a long journey to get to brewing operations at Isle Brewers Guild. It was...