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May 6, 2008 Archives

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Visit Journal's booth at Business Expo

12:11 PM Tue, May 06, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Jack Perry    Email

PROVIDENCE -- Free, expert business advice. That’s what you’ll get when you visit The Providence Journal’s booth at this year’s Business Expo, today and tomorrow, at the Rhode Island Convention Center, downtown Providence. From how to finance a small business......

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Advisory firm backs Bancorp Rhode Island managers

10:04 AM Tue, May 06, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Paul Grimaldi    Email

The management at Providence-based Bancorp Rhode Island, the parent of Bank Rhode Island, this week received a positive review from a national investment advisory firm. The review comes as the bank fights off a pair of dissident shareholders intent on......

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CVS Caremark buys two Cumberland buildings

9:34 AM Tue, May 06, 2008 | | Write a comment
By Paul Grimaldi    Email

CVS Caremark Corp. recently purchased two buildings near its Woonsocket headquarters to provide more room for its employees. CVS has been expanding ever since it moved to the Highland Industrial Park, which straddles the Woonsocket-Cumberland border in 1981. Back then,......

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Offshore wind farm site scrapped

8:19 AM Tue, May 06, 2008 | | Write a comment
By John Kostrzewa    Email

A company proposing an offshore wind farm in Buzzards Bay is dropping one of three locations it was considering. Patriots Renewables said it’s no longer proposing a cluster of wind turbines off the Fairhaven shoreline because of the area’s high......

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Business Expo 2008 opens today

8:09 AM Tue, May 06, 2008 | | Comments (1)
By John Kostrzewa    Email

Business leaders and public officials will open the two-day Business Expo 2008 this morning at 9:30 at the Rhode Island Convention Center. John Maeda, incoming president of the Rhode Island School of Design, will deliver a keynote address at 10:30......

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Haddock catch may be reduced

8:04 AM Tue, May 06, 2008 | | Write a comment
By John Kostrzewa    Email

Last fall's plankton bloom failed to develop in New England's prime fish breeding and feeding ground of Georges Bank, which could reduce the amount of haddock there. A report from the Northeast Fisheries Science Center said the Georges Bank fall......

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