Tag: Johnston
Stop & Shop to stop selling tobacco products on Aug. 31
PROVIDENCE – Stop & Shop will stop selling all cigarettes and tobacco products at its 360 stores by Aug. 31, the grocery retailer announced...
$48.5M flood project for Cranston, Johnston federally authorized
PROVIDENCE – The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service has been authorized to implement the Pocasset River Flood Damage Reduction Project, the...
Encompass Health opens rehabilitation hospital in Johnston
JOHNSTON – Encompass Health Corp., the nation’s largest owner and operator of rehabilitation hospitals based in Alabama, has opened a 50-bed inpatient facility at...
Eastside Marketplace, Stop & Shop in Johnston are closing down
PROVIDENCE – A Stop & Shop supermarket in Johnston and the Eastside Marketplace at 176 Pitman St. in Providence will close by the end...
RIPEC: State’s property tax system broken
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Public Expenditure Council on Thursday will release a new report on property taxation across Rhode Island that it says is...
R.I. Commerce awards $4M for Commercial District Improvements
PROVIDENCE – State officials on Tuesday announced the latest grant recipients of a pair of infrastructure and commercial revitalization programs run through R.I. Commerce...
Eleventh-hour bottle bill reignites debate between environmental, business groups
Disagreement over a state bottle recycling program is as pervasive as the piles of recyclable bottles and cans littering Rhode Island streets, beaches and...
Agencies to get $26.9M for public housing
PROVIDENCE – Public housing projects across the state will benefit from $26.9 million in federal funding awarded to 24 local housing authorities, U.S. Sen. Jack...
R.I. gets $52.9M for Cliff Walk, 37 other projects
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island will get more than $52.9 million in federal funding to support 38 local projects, including $5 million to repair the...
$12M awarded for municipal resilience projects
PROVIDENCE – Twenty communities across the state that participated in the Municipal Resilience Program were awarded a total of $12 million in grants, Gov....
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