Steven Filippi - Providence Business News

BLOCK ISLAND BUSINESSES had feared tourism would be decimated when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived last spring, but it turns out the 2020 season wasn’t as dreadful as officials thought it might be. PBN FILE PHOTO/CASSIUS SHUMAN

Down year is OK for Block Island

Coronavirus 01/08/2021

Block Island’s tourism-dependent business owners entered the summer fearful of the damage the COVID-19 pandemic would do to their livelihoods, but most report that...

PICTURED IN FRONT of Ballard's Inn are, from left to right, Marion Filippi, Landon, Lauren, Natalie and Steven Filippi, along with Bryan Sawyer, COO of the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation. / COURTESY STEVEN FILIPPI/BLAARD'S INN

Stepping Up: Ballard’s Inn donates $8K to local charities

Coronavirus 07/10/2020

NEW SHOREHAM – Ballard’s Inn on Block Island donated a combined $8,000 to two Rhode Island charities that have been impacted by the COVID-19...

BEYOND BUSINESS: Associate Justice Brian P. Stern worked in the public sector before being appointed to the bench. Although he was named in 2011 to oversee the business calendar for Kent, Newport and Washington counties, he still presides over some criminal matters, including murders, outside of the business calendar. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

A 2001 court experiment in R.I. has paid off with speedier...

Business Services 08/25/2017

When Michael P. Fiore died powerboat racing in August 2014, his boat-building company quickly started falling apart. Outerlimits Offshore Powerboats Ltd., based in Bristol, owed...

THE HOTEL MANISSES was recognized with the Yankee Magazine Editor’s Choice Award for Best of New England 2017. /COURTESY HOTEL MANISSES

Yankee Magazine names award winners, Hotel Manisses among Editor’s Choice picks

Economic Activity 05/02/2017

NEW SHOREHAM – Yankee Magazine named Block Island’s Hotel Manisses as Rhode Island's Best Island Inn. The magazine released its Best of New England 2017 Editor’s Choice Awards last...