Amtrak's Vermonter project completed on time and on budget
US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood today announced the on-time and on-budget completion of a two-year project making upgrades and repairs along 190 miles of track between St. Albans and Vernon...
View ArticleR.I. college graduation rates exceed national average
Graduation rates at Rhode Island colleges are better than the national average, especially for the state's private four-year colleges, according to a study ranking 2010 graduation rates by The...
View ArticleOnline gaming firm closes Cambridge office, cutting 120 jobs
While Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios crashed and burned in a high-profile demise earlier this year, there was apparently another local online gaming firm heading for collapse that...
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Umass Farming
Students grow crops for credit and profit at the UMASS Crop Research ahd Education Center on North River Rd.South Deerfield
View ArticleVermont Community Loan Fund lends $501,800 in 3rd quarter
The Vermont Community Loan Fund (VCLF) approved $501,800 in financing to Vermont’s small businesses, affordable housing developers, and child care programs during the third quarter...
View ArticleHolyoke efforts to improve 3rd-graders' reading skills topic of meeting at...
Strategies to improve third-graders' readiing abilities will be discussed with national and statewide officials.
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New England Air Museum opens new high-tech flight simulators
Those who have ever wanted to try their hand at flying an airplane can now get a realistic feel for it at the New England Air Museum.
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Groups partner to spur Maine innovation economy
Blackstone Accelerates Growth has had an ambitious long-term goal of adding 10,000 skilled jobs and $664 million in revenues to the Maine economy in the next decade, and now it’s created one more way...
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Banana Republic building on Newbury Street for sale
The Banana Republic building on the first block of Boston’s tony Newbury Street is for sale. The four-story, 19,041-square-foot retail property at 28 Newbury was sold to Anastasios Parafestas by the...
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Western Massachusetts Dial-A-Lawer program to offer residents free legal...
All callers must dial (413) 782-1659 during the four hour program to get through to a lawyer.
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Providence metro ranks 94 in U.S.
The Providence area ranked 94 out of the 102 metropolitan areas across the U.S. ranked on The Business Journals' October 2012 On Numbers Economic Index.
View ArticleCitizens Bank has most deposits in R.I., says FDIC
RBS Citizens Bank remained Rhode Island's leading deposit holder during the fiscal year ended June 30, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
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Boston food truck Momogoose signs a restaurant lease near South Station
Momogoose, a food truck often found serving lunch in downtown Boston, has signed a lease for a permanent restaurant near South Station. The red Momogoose truck serves Asian-inspired sandwiches, rice...
View ArticleVermont Business Roundtable survey shows increasingly stable outlook into...
The chief executives of Vermont’s leading businesses demonstrated an increasingly stable outlook in their economic forecasts for the coming six months, compared against the previous...
View ArticleVermont Tech joins United States Green Building Council
With the goal of creating a sustainable environment through “green” building, Vermont Tech has joined the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), a 15,000-member organization...
View ArticleVermont Tech announces business plan competition winners
Six of Vermont’s burgeoning business stars have won a total of $19,000 in prizes in Vermont Tech’s 2012 Food and Farm Business Plan Competition. The competition for food- and...
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Rhode Island jack-o'-lantern fest lights up fall nights
The Jack-o'-lantern Spectacular at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, R.I., features 5,000 lit pumpkins along the zoo's wetlands trail.
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MA promoting low-interest loan programs
The state is offering financial help to people in need of wheelchairs and other assistive technology.
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Local colleges make Princeton Review's 'best business' and 'best law' schools...
Bryant University, the University of Rhode Island and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth all earned places on The Princeton Review's 2013 list of the 'Best 296 Business Schools,' and Roger...
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Vermont governor's race: Shumlin confident of re-election
Saturday October 27, 2012 RICHMOND -- Politicians often are criticized for telling people what they want to hear rather than being fully open with them, and Gov. Peter Shumlin says he doesn't want to...
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