Tag: Lead Story
List: Women-Run Businesses
Total number of regional employees: 30,826
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List: Family-Owned Businesses
Total number of local employees: 10,544
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List: Rhode Island Distilleries, Breweries and Vineyards
Ranked by oldest:
1. Providence Brewing Co. | Year founded: 1817*
2. Narragansett Brewing Co. | Year founded: 1890
3. Greenvale Vineyards | Year founded: 1992
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Pawtucket to use ARPA funds to help pay for soccer stadium...
PAWTUCKET – The pieces of the complex financing puzzle for a riverfront soccer stadium development are shifting yet again, with the city now planning...
CharterCARE Health Partners to be sold to Atlanta-based nonprofit
PROVIDENCE – Atlanta-based The Centurion Foundation is set to acquire the CharterCARE Health Partners system and turn it into a nonprofit again.
The nonprofit Centurion...
Report: R.I. Lottery transfers to state up 22% in fiscal 2022
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Lottery transferred $388.6 million into state coffers in fiscal 2022, a 22.3% increase from the previous year, according to an audit...
John Fernandez named Lifespan’s new CEO
PROVIDENCE – Lifespan Corp. has named John Fernandez, current president of Mass Eye and Ear and Mass General Brigham Integrated Care, its next CEO...
List: Assisted Living Facilities
Ranked by licensed beds:
1. Smithfield Woods | Licensed beds: 85
2. Anchor Bay at Greenwich | Licensed beds: 75
3. Wingate at Blackstone Boulevard | Licensed beds: 62
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List: Retirement Communities
Re-ranked by oldest communities:
1. Pine Hill Estates | Year established: 1972
2. Medway Place | Year established: 1987
3. Laurelmead Cooperative | Year established: 1994
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R.I. unemployment rate swells to 3.4%
CRANSTON – Rhode Island’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.4% in October, up three-tenths of a percentage point from September, the R.I. Department of...
