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CONSTANTLY EVOLVING: Beauregard Built LLC owner Olivia Beauregard launched the Providence-based design-build firm, specializing in interior and exterior work in residential and commercial new construction and renovation, five years ago. 
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Designer travels ‘Amazing’ journey to build her career

Olivia Beauregard has always been fascinated by how things work. While some kids spend their free time playing video games, Beauregard would lie in...

Longtime T.F. Green decor soon to be unmoored

One of the first sights to greet travelers waiting to collect their bags at Rhode Island T.F. Green International Airport is a symbol for...

Keane’s Wood Fired Catering cooking up fresh profits

PBN 2025 FASTEST GROWING COMPANIES $250,000 TO $2.5 MILLION 2. Keane’s Wood Fired Catering CEO (or equivalent): Padraic Keane, owner and head of operations; Kaylyn...

Brown remains No. 13 in U.S. News’ best colleges, PC moves...

PROVIDENCE – Brown University tied Dartmouth College as the 13th-best national university, while Providence College moved up among the best regional universities, in U.S....
A GOOD YARN TO TELL: Katy Westcott started her company on a shoestring in 2012, and now Katrinkles Inc., a maker of tools and other items for crafters, is a substantial manufacturing business in Providence. 
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Fabric of her company crafted from a hobby

Katy Westcott is a designing woman. She knits socks and crochets sweaters. She spins yarn and even sews her own clothes. So her life...
RETURNING THE FAVOR: After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design in 1988 and first working for a firm owned by a professor at the school, Edward Wojcik, owner and principal of Ed Wojcik Architect Ltd., had RISD as his first client when he opened his firm in 1997.
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Edward Wojcik

PBN Leaders & Achievers Awards 2025 EDWARD WOJCIK Ed Wojcik Architect Ltd. Owner and principal EDWARD WOJCIK BELIEVES he is temperamentally suited to being a leader,...

RISD alumnus to teach institution’s first tattooing course

PROVIDENCE – Brooklyn artist Adam Krueger had long envisioned that someday he would return to teach a course at his alma mater, the Rhode...
PRODUCT ASSESSMENT: Alice Nichols, left, founder and owner, and Donna Bodell, vice president and designer, look over some of the products on the factory floor at pet supply manufacturer Up Country in East Providence.
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Meet the Makers: Determination pays off for pet apparel designer, with...

(Editor’s note: This is the 35th installment in a monthly series highlighting some of the region’s unsung manufacturers that make products essential to the...
OTHER PLANS? Erin Fitzgerald, director of the Center for Global Education and Fellowships at Salve Regina University in Newport, says she has many international students and researchers considering their options outside the U.S. 
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Uncertainty raises stress among foreign students

At Salve Regina University, the Center for Global Education and Fellowships has been preparing to welcome 80 international students to campus in the fall...

DESIGNxRI appoints Taylor as new executive director

PROVIDENCE – Islay Taylor, a seasoned arts administrator, educator and curator with more than a decade of experience leading community-centered creative across Rhode Island,...
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