Tag: West Warwick
18 organizations receive $270K from Centreville Bank Charitable Foundation
WEST WARWICK – Eighteen organizations across the state will share $270,000 from the Centreville Bank Charitable Foundation.
The grants, which are part of the foundation’s...
AstroNova sees profit narrow to $2.6M in FY 2023
WEST WARWICK – AstroNova Inc. posted a profit of $2.6 million for its fiscal 2023 that ended Jan. 31, or 36 cents per diluted...
4 R.I. fire departments get $5.2M for hiring, equipment
PROVIDENCE – Four Rhode Island fire departments were awarded $5.2 million in federal funding to help reduce response time and improve safety, the state’s...
State receives $26M in federal funding for public housing
PROVIDENCE – Housing authorities in 24 communities across the state will receive $26.3 million in federal funding through the Public Housing Capital Fund, U.S....
RIPTA receives $5M in federal Safe Streets funding
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Public Transit Authority will receive $5 million to develop a Safe Streets action plan covering 29 communities across the state,...
6 R.I. communities reject cannabis sales; combined $1.4B in local school...
PROVIDENCE – Voters in 25 Rhode Island communities Tuesday approved recreational cannabis sales, while another six rejected allowing pot businesses to set up in...
275 First Student Inc. school bus employees plan to strike next...
PROVIDENCE – Service Employees International Union 1199 New England announced on Tuesday that 275 Rhode Island school bus drivers, monitors and aides with First...
West Warwick man pleads guilty to running $14M Ponzi scheme
PROVIDENCE – A West Warwick man admitted to conducting a decadelong Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of roughly $6 million, the U.S. Department of...
West Warwick man indicted in unemployment fraud scheme
PROVIDENCE – A West Warwick man has been indicted in an alleged conspiracy to fraudulently apply for COVID-related unemployment funds.
Richard Allen, 56, pleaded not...
West Warwick apartment complex sold for $29.6M to L.A. company
WEST WARWICK – A Los Angeles-based company that specializes in investments in affordable and workforce housing across the country recently bought a 176-unit apartment...
