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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...

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...

R.I. Coalition to End Homelessness hires new executive director 

After five months without a permanent leader, the Providence-based nonprofit tasked with collecting and analyzing the data on Rhode Island’s unhoused population has a...

R.I.’s annual homelessness census set for Tuesday night

When teams of volunteers fan out across Rhode Island after dark Tuesday on a mission that will take them through parks, alongside highway ramps,...

Preservation of Affordable Housing closes on financing to renovate Hillside Village

PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Housing and Mortgage Finance Corp. and the nonprofit Preservation of Affordable Housing have closed on financing for the second-stage tax credit...

BankRI, PCF Development to host free workshop for first-time homebuyers

PROVIDENCE – Bank Rhode Island and Pawtucket Central Falls Development will host a free virtual workshop on Oct. 22 aimed at breaking down the...
STEELY GAZE: Noel Laflamme, a technician at metal fabricator Ward’s Manufacturing LLC in Warren, measures the thickness of a steel plate as he prepares for a job in the workshop. 
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

CRACKS IN THE METTLE | PBN survey: R.I. businesses remain resilient,...

When siblings Kelly and Kiffin Ward co-founded their Warren metal fabrication business, Ward’s Manufacturing LLC, in early 2024, they set out with a vision...

$3.6M in community-development grants awarded to 10 municipalities

PROVIDENCE – Ten municipalities have been awarded approximately $3.6 million in federal community-development grants, Gov. Daniel J. McKee announced Wednesday.  Administered by the U.S. Department...

R.I. federal judge blocks HUD from rushing through grant awards under...

A Rhode Island federal judge on Sept. 13 granted a temporary restraining order blocking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from awarding...

Lawsuit seeks to reverse Trump admin. changes to federal housing grant criteria

PROVIDENCE – A lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island seeks to end new restrictions placed on the $75 million federal...

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration’s restrictions on health, housing grants

PROVIDENCE – A federal judge on July 24 granted a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration’s restrictions on U.S. Department of Health and...
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