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March 2, 2008 - March 8, 2008 Archives
5:29 PM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Tim Barmann  Email
Verizon Communications said this afternoon that it will donate an original Norman Rockwell painting, "The Lineman," to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass. The oil-on-canvas painting was created by Rockwell in 1948 for an advertisement for New England......
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5:14 PM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal archive photo / Sandor Bodo Jumbo tiger shrimp appetizer at the former Raphael Bar Risto. PROVIDENCE - A popular Italian restaurant that came to prominence during the resurgence of downtown Providence in the 1990s has closed. Raphael Bar......
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3:24 PM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
Journal archive photo Governor Carcieri attends a ceremony last March, at the botanical garden at Roger Williams Park, to mark the start of the tourism season. PROVIDENCE - State officials will mark the start of this year's high tourism......
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2:59 PM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andy Smith Email
The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation and the New England Institute of Technology announced today they are accepting students into a new federally funded training program for the marine trades industry. The Composite Repair & Boat Construction Training Program is......
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2:33 PM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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State regulators today gave Verizon Communications the first of three approvals it needs before it can begin providing cable television service to 115,000 households in 10 Rhode Island communities. The Division of Public Utilities and Carriers found that Verizon "has......
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2:03 PM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Andrea Panciera Email
WASHINGTON -- President Bush will make a statement on the nation's economy this afternoon, hours after a Labor Department report was released that showed employers slashing 63,000 jobs last month -- the most in five years. He's scheduled to speak......
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1:34 PM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
Joseph J. MarcAurele, president of Citizens Bank's Rhode Island operations, is hosting a discussion about doing business in China. MarcAurele will be joined by Anne Forbes Van Nest, a senior vice president at Citizens Financial Group; Nelson de Castro, a......
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1:32 PM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
Journal archive photo / Bill Murphy Providence Place mall is making changes to help shoppers leave the parking garage faster. PROVIDENCE - Providence Place mall is trying a new gambit to unclog the chronic bottlenecks that plague its parking......
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1:06 PM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Tim Barmann Email
Cox Communications is preparing to offer TiVo-based digital video recorder service in its New England division, Multichannel News has reported. TiVo president and CEO Tom Rogers, in a conference call Wednesday discussing the company’s quarterly results, said Cox is currently......
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12:23 PM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
Journal archive photo / Mary Murphy Christopher L. Bergstrom, executive director of the state Economic Policy Council, at a council meeting last September. PROVIDENCE - Rhode Island Economic Policy Council has released its new strategy for improving the state's......
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8:37 AM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Kostrzewa Email
Providence Equity Partners, the Providence-based firm run by Brown University graduate Jonathan Nelson, is among the companies preparing bids for the Weather Channel and its Web site, according to the Wall Street Journal. The deadline for preliminary bids is today.......
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8:08 AM Fri, Mar 07, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Kostrzewa Email
The U.S. unexpectedly lost jobs in February for the second month in a row, reinforcing concerns that the economy is contracting. The Labor Department reported at 8:30 this morning that the country lost 63,000 jobs in February after a decline......
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5:58 PM Thu, Mar 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
PROVIDENCE -- Lawmakers in the state Senate want to force the state's largest power company to invest in renewable energy projects, such as wind turbines. Senate President Joseph Montalbano said today that legislation they are proposing would primarily affect National......
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5:10 PM Thu, Mar 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
Fortune magazine has named Providence-based Textron Inc. as the country's top-ranked aerospace and defense company. Textron moved up six spots from its ranking last year, according to the company. "Textron is honored to be recognized as number one among such......
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4:33 PM Thu, Mar 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
The U.S. Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service plans to hold four public hearings in Massachusetts beginning Monday, March 10, to solicit comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Cape Wind Energy Project. The draft report is available for......
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3:49 PM Thu, Mar 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
As state lawmakers advance an effort to build wind turbines off the Rhode Island coast, Texas, an early adopter of wind energy, is struggling with the unpredictability of the resource. The Wall Street Journal reported today that regulators in Texas......
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2:15 PM Thu, Mar 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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Journal photo / John Freidah Dan Driscoll, owner of Giro's restaurant, is closing his business on Saturday. SOUTH KINGSTOWN -- After a 75-year run, Giro's restaurant in the South Kingstown village of Peace Dale will close its doors Saturday.......
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2:05 PM Thu, Mar 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
National Grid has sold a fiber optic division of its KeySpan Corp. subsidiary. Lightower Fiber LLC, a provider of digital fiber optic networks, today announced plans to purchase KeySpan Communications. That acquisition, coupled with Lightower's purchase of DataNet Communications Group......
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11:06 AM Thu, Mar 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Kostrzewa Email
General Dynamics Corp., the owner of Electric Boat at Quonset Business Park, boosted its quarterly dividend 21 percent to 35 cents a share. The dividend is payable May 9 to shareholders of record on April 11, the Falls Church, Virginia-based......
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10:58 AM Thu, Mar 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
Author Jeffrey W. Meshel. Author and "master networker" Jeffrey W. Meshel will deliver a speech at this year's Business EXPO, the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce announced today. The speech will take place at the Rhode Island Convention Center.......
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8:33 AM Thu, Mar 06, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Kostrzewa Email
Woonsocket-based CVS Caremark Corp. has applied for licenses to open the first 10 MinuteClinics at retail sites in Massachusetts. The state recently adopted regulations to allow the medical clinics in retail locations. MinuteClinic, which runs 500 clinics nationwide, said it......
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6:08 PM Wed, Mar 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
Senate President Joseph A. Montalbano will unveil renewable energy legislation tomorrow at a news conference at 3 p.m., his spokesman announced today. Senate leaders plan to gather in the State House in room 313 to discuss the bills. Part of......
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2:27 PM Wed, Mar 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
Journal Photo/Mary Murphy Michael Polak, right, and John Kelly, both of New England Organics, a composting company in Portland, Maine, set up their display yesterday at the 11th annual New England Regional Turfgrass Conference and Show at the Rhode......
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11:35 AM Wed, Mar 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
Journal archive photo / Bill Murphy Sue Cabeceiras, of Warwick, shops at the new ALDI market. The Blue Elephant restaurant in Providence will no longer serve dinner, a decision its owners blamed on the increasing cost of food. "To......
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8:32 AM Wed, Mar 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Kostrzewa Email
The ongoing Annual New England Turfgrass Conference at the Rhode Island Convention Center shines light on the state's industry. About half the 6,000 acres of sod grown in New England comes from Rhode Island, said Gary Sykes, executive director of......
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8:24 AM Wed, Mar 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Kostrzewa Email
D. Palmieri's Bakery, a fixture in Johnston for 36 years before a devastating fire last year leveled the structure, is set to reopen. Stephen Palmieri, owner, and Mary Tobin, manager, have invited customers, politicians and other local leaders to a......
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8:17 AM Wed, Mar 05, 2008 | Permalink |
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By John Kostrzewa Email
Gary Gygax, a pioneer in the gaming industry and the creator of the fantasy role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons, has died. He was 69. Gygax died Tuesday at his home in Wisconsin, according to a statment by Hasbro Inc.'s Wizards......
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1:49 PM Tue, Mar 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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AP photo Cranium executives show off their new board game in 1999. Toymaker Hasbro Inc. is laying off 40 people at newly acquired Cranium Inc., the maker of the Cranium, Cadoo and Hullabaloo board games. The layoffs come as......
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10:58 AM Tue, Mar 04, 2008 | Permalink |
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By Benjamin N. Gedan Email
Journal archive photo / Bill Murphy The new bridge between the Rhode Island Convention Center and the Dunkin' Donuts Center is now open. PROVIDENCE - The bridge connecting the Dunkin' Donuts Center and the Rhode Island Convention Center has......
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