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WindWinRI student training program receives $175K DLT grant

Education 01/03/2022

NORTH KINGSTOWN – As plans for a slew of offshore wind arrays take shape across the region, the North Kingstown Chamber of Commerce is...

FUTURE WORKFORCE? Rhode Island high school students participating in a career pathway program for offshore wind jobs ride in a boat circling a Block Island Wind Farm turbine. / COURTESY LUCKY DAWG PHOTOGRAPHY/DOUG LEARNED

A reversal of fortune on jobs front

Economy 11/26/2021

WORKFORCE After working for years to create new jobs in Rhode Island, state labor officials have been faced with an unusual problem recently. In some...

Walsh earns Bob Cioe Award from North Kingstown Chamber for community...

Financial Services 11/26/2021

AMY WALSH, executive director of commercial banking in Rhode Island for JPMorgan Chace & Co., was recently awarded the Bob Cioe Award from the...

MAKING CONNECTIONS: The Statewide Business After Hours scheduled for Oct. 26 has been relocated to the Crowne Plaza Providence-Warwick. / COURTESY CROWNE PLAZA PROVIDENCE-WARWICK

Editor’s Choice: Rhodes on the Pawtuxet to host Statewide Business After...

Subscriber Only 10/15/2021

EDITOR’S CHOICE Crowne Plaza to host Statewide Business After Hours THE STATEWIDE BUSINESS After Hours, the annual event in which all of Rhode Island’s...

TRAINING HUB: Jennifer Menard, left, interim vice president of economic and business development at Bristol Community College, and Laura Douglas, college president, stand outside the future home of the school’s National Offshore Wind Institute on the New Bedford waterfront. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Unchartered training: How does region build workforce for new wind sector?

Cover Story 08/06/2021

Toiling hundreds of feet above the open ocean, sometimes amid stormy weather and battering waves, technicians in the offshore wind industry need not only...

MARK S. HAYWARD, bottom center, U.S. Small Business Administration Rhode Island District director, shares insights about the small-business relief programs during PBN's 2021 Coronavirus Business Stimulus Summit on Thursday. Also participating was, from top left, Anthony J. Mangiarelli, partner and director of enterprise solutions group for Kahn, Litwin, Renza & Co., PBN Editor Michael Mello, and Kristin Urbach, executive director for the North Kingstown Chamber of Commerce. At bottom left is Jenny Pereira, Rhode Island Foundation vice president of grants and community investment.

PBN summit panelists lay out latest rules on federal, state business...

Business Services 02/11/2021

PROVIDENCE – The dizzying array of state and federal relief programs rolled out over the last year is enough to trip up even the...

MAIN ATTRACTION: Bank of America Corp. Chairman and CEO Brian Moynihan will be the keynote speaker at the Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce 30th Anniversary Celebration on Feb. 10. / PBN FILE PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Editor’s Choice: Northern Rhode Island Chamber to celebrate 30th anniversary

Subscriber Only 02/05/2021

EDITOR’S CHOICE Northern Rhode Island Chamber to celebrate 30th anniversary THE NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND Chamber of Commerce will hold its 30th Anniversary Celebration. The event...

SIGN OF THE TIMES: Asher Schofield, co-owner of Frog & Toad LCC in Providence, has kept the retailer’s two locations closed to foot traffic during the pandemic, but Frog & Toad has been able to offset that loss of business with online sales and curbside pickup. / PBN PHOTO/PAMELA BHATIA

Some independent retailers pay heavier price than others in COVID-19 era

Coronavirus 01/22/2021

Two hundred feet – about a 60-second walk – separates LuLi Boutique LLC from Frog & Toad LLC in Providence. But the pandemic experiences...

EXECUTIVE SESSION: One SouthCoast Chamber of Commerce CEOs Rick Kidder, left, and Mike O’Sullivan will have an online conversation for members on Feb. 4. / COURTESY ONE SOUTHCOAST CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Editor’s Choice: One SouthCoast Chamber CEOs to discuss agenda, programs

Subscriber Only 01/22/2021

EDITOR’S CHOICE One SouthCoast Chamber CEOs to discuss agenda, programs ONE SOUTHCOAST CHAMBER of Commerce will hold an online conversation with the Chamber’s two...