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FUTURE EXPANSION? Alyssa Kenyon works as a trimmer in the Mammoth Inc. cannabis cultivation facility in Warwick. Founder and CEO Spencer Blier hopes eventually to add grow rooms, lab space and employees after retail sales of recreational marijuana start in December.  PBN PHOTO/MICHEAL SALERNO

A GROWING WORKFORCE: New labor pipeline emerging for legalized recreational cannabis

Cover Story 10/14/2022

Celia Kinneary entered Johnson & Wales University’s culinary program with a grand vision of opening her own bakery and brewery someday, but now those...

CANNABIS CULTIVATOR: Mammoth Inc. is among the state’s cannabis cultivators hoping to expand once marijuana sales for recreational use become legal in December. Above, trimmer Alyssa Kenyon works in Mammoth’s Warwick facility.  PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Competition, delays could limit cannabis job growth

Editorial and Op-Ed 10/14/2022

For years, growers and sellers participating in Rhode Island’s medical-marijuana program have been frustrated watching counterparts in Massachusetts and other states with legal recreational...

STRENUOUS SUMMER: Brad Marthens, who co-owns The Atlantic Inn on Block Island with his wife, Anne, had to cut room rates to help fill vacancies and didn’t have enough staff to open the inn’s restaurant daily until August, something he is usually able to start doing in June. PBN PHOTO/K. CURTIS

SINKING SPIRITS: Slowed supply chains, inflation, labor shortage are sapping optimism

Cover Story 09/30/2022

There’s only so long you can keep your chin up. After a 2½-year battle against health and economic devastation, Rhode Island companies have been beaten...

PUT TO THE TEST: Dr. Jonathan Martin, center, co-founder of PureVita Labs LLC, talks during a panel discussion at Providence Business News’ 2022 Business of Cannabis Summit on Sept. 15. PureVita offers regulatory testing for marijuana cultivators. Also on the panel are, from left, Seth Bock, founder and CEO of Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center Inc.; and Michael Budziszek, a professor of biological sciences at Johnson & Wales University. PBN PHOTOS/MIKE SKORSKI

Brace for abrupt shifts in legalized cannabis market

Industries 09/30/2022

In the cannabis market, nothing is simple, says Seth Bock, founder and CEO of Greenleaf Compassionate Care Center Inc. in Portsmouth. The legalization of...

CRAMPED CLASSROOM: Thornton Elementary School Principal Louise Denham sits in one of the school’s cramped classrooms. The building is more than 100 years old and is part of a plan to consolidate all four elementary schools in Johnston using a voter-approved $215 million school construction bond.  PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A financial remedy for R.I.’s aging schools

Education 09/16/2022

When Johnston Mayor Joseph M. Polisena visits the town’s high school, it’s a bit like taking a step into the past – and not...

Partners purchase Hayes & Sherry commercial real estate firm

Economic Activity 09/13/2022

PROVIDENCE – One of the region’s leading full-service commercial real estate brokerage firms is changing owners. Hayes & Sherry founding owners, Pete Hayes and Karl...

Five Questions With: Dr. Vijairam Selvaraj

Health Services 08/28/2022

Dr. Vijairam Selvaraj, a hospitalist at The Miriam Hospital, is senior editor of the Brown Journal of Hospital Medicine, an online publication launched in April. The...

SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY, like many other local colleges and universities, have updated their COVID-19 policies going into this fall semester where they are less strict than this time last year. / COURTESY SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY

After 2 years of COVID-19, local colleges optimistic in getting back...

Coronavirus 08/26/2022

PROVIDENCE – Could this academic year finally see almost complete normalcy on local college campuses for the first time in more than two years?...

2 newcomers running well-funded gubernatorial campaigns

Elections 08/19/2022

Two businesswomen running for governor who are also mounting their first political campaigns have so far led the way in digging into their personal...