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SPREADING OUT: University of Rhode Island public health professor Wenhui Feng examines a map of dollar stores in Rhode Island, most of them concentrated in urban areas. Feng is leading a new study on dollar stores and the food that is purchased there.  PBN PHOTO/STEPHANIE BERNABA

Dollar stores and diet the focus of URI-led study

Education 09/25/2026

For Rhode Islanders who live in neighborhoods without a full-service grocer, a so-called dollar store can be a convenient and affordable place to buy...

BIG LEAP: Andrew Palumbo of Warwick competes in the long jump for the Trudeau Tigers, at the Special Olympics Rhode Island Summer Games earlier this year.  / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Sharing the joy of competition – and fitting in

Nonprofit 08/09/2019

FOR THE APPROXIMATELY 1,400 athletes from around the state who competed at the Special Olympics Rhode Island’s 51st Annual State Summer Games at the...

SWING OF THINGS: In their leisure time, employees at Parkinson Technologies participate in a golf league at Chemawa Golf Course in North Attleboro. Joe Connelly, Parkinson product development manager, tees off.  / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Healthy employees keep Parkinson Technologies on cutting edge

PBN Award Winners 08/09/2019

Healthiest Employers of Rhode Island 2019 2-149 EMPLOYEES #1: Parkinson Technologies Inc. CEO (or equivalent): Peter Termyn, CEO and president Number of employees: 80 Woonsocket-based Parkinson Technologies INC....

Edesia’s Salem named EY’s N.E. Entrepreneur of the Year 2018

Entrepreneurship 06/29/2018

NORTH KINGSTOWN – Edesia Inc. founder and CEO Navyn Salem has received Ernst & Young LLP’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2018 Award in the...

Go ahead, order that cheesesteak

Advice 10/13/2017

In the latest science shocker, researchers discovered that a number of people around the world are eating foods such as cheese, butter and full-fat...

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