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July 5, 2009 - July 11, 2009 Archives
5:15 PM Fri, Jul 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Christine Dunn  Email
The Clarmar estate, a 20-room mansion set on 3.4 acres in the exclusive Watch Hill section of Westerly, will be auctioned on the premises Friday, July 31 at 11 a.m. Beginning on July 17, tours of the estate at 16......
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11:19 AM Fri, Jul 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Andy Smith Email
Building and grounds maintenance workers employed by Providence College have ratified a new four-year contract with the college this week. According to the Service Employees International Union, which represents the workers, the new contract calls for pay raises totaling 12......
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8:15 AM Fri, Jul 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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Eugene M. McQuade, the former FleetBoston Financial Corp. president from East Greenwich who helped Terry Murray build the biggest bank in the country, has been named an executive at Citibank, the nation's third biggest bank. McQuade, 60, starts his new......
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1:09 PM Thu, Jul 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Andy Smith Email
Summer hiring at Rhode Island restaurants remains roughly equal to last year, according to figures from the National Restaurant Association. The association calculates summer employment by taking the average number of restaurant jobs in June, July and August and determining......
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11:36 AM Thu, Jul 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Sales of foreclosed property have increased to almost 20 percent of Rhode Island home sales this year, much more than other New England states. A report released Thursday by Boston-based real estate consulting firm The Warren......
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11:19 AM Thu, Jul 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
McDonald's Corp. continues battling for the loyalty of coffee drinkers in small ways. The fast-food chain said on Thursday it will offer up a free iced or hot mocha on Mondays from July 13 to Aug. 3. The offer is......
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7:28 AM Thu, Jul 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Jack Perry Email
By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) -- You've heard of Alaska King Crab and Maine Lobster. Why not Massachusetts Mackerel or maybe Cape Cod Cod? States are increasingly looking to hook consumers by branding their local seafood specialties,......
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4:19 PM Wed, Jul 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Wednesday recalled 1 million play yards after reports that the product's side rails sometimes fail to latch, causing injuries to some children. In all, 21 injuries, including one concussion and several cases of......
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3:44 PM Wed, Jul 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
Bloomberg News photo A Southwest Airlines airplane takes off from T.F. Green Airport in Warwick. The Dallas, Texas, airline is offering cut-rate fares in a promotion that ends Wednesday. Looking for a cheap way to get out of town?......
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11:17 AM Wed, Jul 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By BRUCE LANDIS Journal staff writer JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- The state Turnpike and Bridge Authority voted, 3-1, Wednesday morning to move toward increasing the tolls on the Pell Bridge for the first time in its 40-year history and possibly re-instituting......
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4:42 PM Tue, Jul 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Barbara Polichetti Journal staff writer WARWICK, R.I. -- The Federal Aviation Administration has refused Mayor Scott Avedisian's request for a second community meeting on the proposed runway expansion at T.F. Green Airport, prompting Avedisian to call the denial "a......
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2:28 PM Tue, Jul 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Bruce Landis Email
BRISTOL, R.I. -- A Roger Williams University program supporting Rhode Island's shell fishing industry will get a $1 million federal grant, the U.S. Commerce Department said. The grant will go to the university's Center for Economic and Environmental Development, which......
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12:20 PM Tue, Jul 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Iron particles so small that a few thousand of them, lined end to end, would be as wide as a human hair may help doctors pierce the slimy shield that protects bacteria infecting artificial hips, knees and......
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11:38 AM Tue, Jul 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Heating oil prices jumped by four cents a gallon in the past week, diesel was up two cents and unleaded gasoline is down three cents per gallon, according to Tuesday's survey by the Rhode Island Office of......
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10:57 AM Tue, Jul 07, 2009 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
WEST WARWICK, R.I. -- The Kent County Water Authority is seeking to automatically pass along any increase in water rates granted to the Providence Water Supply Board to its customers. The request comes because Providence has asked the state Public......
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3:08 PM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Paul Grimaldi Email
Providence Journal photo / Sandor Bodo A table at the Abbey Grill in Fall River overlooks the teaching kitchen at the International Institute of Culinary Arts. The school closed recenlty after falling into financial difficulty. The cooking school started......
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1:49 PM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Andy Smith Email
The federal government has allocated an additional $3.6 million for the Trade Adjustment Assistance program in Rhode Island, bringing the total for the 2009 fiscal year to $4.7 million, more than twice the previous year's allocation. The program, originally designed......
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12:40 PM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Business staff Email
Providence-based GTECH Corp., a unit of Lottomatica, has signed a two-year contract extension with the Wisconsin Lottery to continue providing online lottery technology and services. The contract extension will begin on June 26, 2011, and is expected to generate revenues......
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12:33 PM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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North Providence-based Union Federal Savings Bank must stop making student loans as the result of an order by the U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision requiring the bank's parent company to lessen its reliance on the private lending packages. Union Federal......
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11:51 AM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Lisa Vernon-Sparks Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A South Main Street investment management firm doing business, for a decade, as an allied operation to a Massachusetts company, will separate to launch a new firm called Endurance Wealth Management, a company spokesman announced Monday. The......
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11:43 AM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. Email
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- After dropping two cents the week before, unleaded gasoline prices stayed relative stable over the past week. AAA said its average price in Rhode Island Monday was $2.68 per gallon, down a half-cent from a week ago......
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9:18 AM Mon, Jul 06, 2009 | Permalink |
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By Alex Kuffner Journal Staff Writer Nearly three out of four Rhode Islanders have access to the Internet at home, according to a recently released survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. The survey estimates that 73 percent of Rhode Island......
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