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NEW HOME: Loren M. Spears is executive director of the Tomaquag Museum in Exeter, which has spent years fundraising and clearing regulatory hurdles to establish a larger, more accessible home for the museum at the University of Rhode Island campus in South Kingstown.  PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Tomaquag Museum hopes to break ground on new larger facility at...

Education 03/27/2026

The 800-square-foot building that houses the Tomaquag Museum, Rhode Island’s only Indigenous museum, is a tight squeeze for its 12,000 cultural belongings, well over...

SNL alumna, Golden Globe-winning comedienne Tina Fey among Trinity Rep Pell...

Art & Culture 04/22/2025

PROVIDENCE – Tina Fey, a Golden Globe award-winning comedienne and former Saturday Night Live cast member, will receive the 2025 Lifetime Achievement in the...

IN PROGRESS: The nonprofit SWAP Inc. (Stop Wasting Abandoned Property) is building this two-family house at Burnside and Arnold streets in East Providence to sell to a family that meets income limits. Supporters of Question 3 on the ballot say similar affordable housing programs will be funded with a $120 million bond issue.  PBN PHOTO/WILLIAM HAMILTON

BUILDING BONDS: New housing, higher ed facilities top $343M in bond...

Art & Culture 10/25/2024

In Rhode Island, $107,452 won’t get residents very far in the housing market. That figure – the state’s median household income – doesn’t support an...

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