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Rhody Fresh milk adds four new dairy farms

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By Andy Smith    Email

Providence Journal photo / Andrew Dickerman Cartons of Rhody Fresh milk in a cooler at McQuade's Marketplace in Jamestown. The Rhode Island Dairy Farms Cooperative, which sells locally produced milk under the Rhody Fresh brand, is adding four new......

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NYLO hotel in Warwick holds sales job contest

5:27 PM Fri, May 29, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Andy Smith    Email

If it works for Donald Trump, why not the NYLO hotel in Warwick? Management of the hotel, located in a restored mill building at 400 Knight St., will hold a competition next week inspired by Trump's TV reality show, The......

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Computer programs approved for state workforce training

2:12 PM Tue, May 19, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Andy Smith    Email

The Education Exchange, a Wakefield-based provider of adult education in southern Rhode Island, announced Tuesday that 11 of its computer classes and certification programs have been approved as eligible training programs by the state Department of Labor and Training. That......

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Yacht Restoration School opens restored Newport mill

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By Andy Smith    Email

Providence Journal photo / Bill Murphy A worker repairs the exterior of the Aquidneck Mill building at the International Yacht Restoration School, in Newport, in this photo taken in May 2008. The International Yacht Restoration School is scheduled to......

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State Awards $2 Million in Worker Training Grants

12:43 PM Wed, Mar 25, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Andy Smith    Email

The Governor's Workforce Board announced Wednesday that it is awarding $2 million in workforce training grants to 77 Rhode Island employers. The grants will benefit nearly 6,700 workers. The grants, which are matched on a 50/50 basis by employers, are......

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East Providence jewelry company cuts 70 jobs

3:17 PM Mon, Mar 23, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Andy Smith    Email

East Providence, RI -- Victoria & Co., the East Providence firm that designs, markets and distributes wholesale fashion jewelry and other products for its owner, the Jones Apparel Group, Inc., is cutting about 70 jobs in Rhode Island. "It is......

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Newport Creamery Moves Ice Cream Plant to Massachusetts

2:43 PM Fri, Mar 13, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Andy Smith    Email

Middletown, R.I. -- Newport Creamery, owned by The Jan Cos. of Cranston, is moving its ice cream production plant from Middletown to an undisclosed location in southeastern Massachusetts. The old plant was located behind the Newport Creamery restaurant at 208......

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