James Bessette

Has your company upgraded its cybersecurity over the last 12 months? Yes: 67% No: 33% No, but we’re working on upgrades: 0% Has your company suffered a cyber breach within the last 24 months? No: 80% Yes: 20% Did your company’s operations become severely impacted due to cyber breaches? No: 80% Yes: 20% No, because

STATE OF THE CITY: New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell will deliver the 2025 “State of the City” address on Jan. 29 at New Bedford High School. COURTESY JON MITCHELL EDITOR’S CHOICE One SouthCoast Chamber to host luncheon with N.B. mayor ONE SOUTHCOAST CHAMBER of Commerce will host the 2025 State of the City Luncheon featuring New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell. The mayor will address all current city matters and what he envisions for the city’s future. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29, 11:30 A.M. TO 1:30 P.M.

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PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO 1. Music, dancing: Restaurant owners say they need a change in Providence POSTED ONLINE: DEC. 13. Providence City Council President Rachel M. Miller has put on hold a proposal to loosen music and dancing restrictions at restaurants citywide after some residents expressed fears about increased noise, but

HELPING HAND: Foster Forward Executive Director Lisa Guillette, center with flowers, poses with her family after receiving the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2024 Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment for her work supporting teenagers and young adults in the foster care system. COURTESY RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION LISA GUILLETTE, executive director of East Providence-based nonprofit Foster Forward, was recently presented with the Rhode Island Foundation’s 2024 Murray Family Prize for Community Enrichment. Guillette directs a statewide nonprofit organization that supports teenagers and young adults who are currently or were formerly in the foster care system. With the honor, Guillette received $50,000 in

PROVIDENCE – Approximately 240 business and nonprofit representatives spent Thursday evening at the Graduate by Hilton Providence networking and conversing while obtaining copies of Providence Business News’ 2025 Book of Lists at the publication’s premier event for the annual special supplement. PBN on Thursday debuted its 38th edition of the Book of Lists, published Friday […]

GOV. DANIEL J. MCKEE'S job-approval rating in the fourth quarter of 2024 was 44%, the lowest of all New England governors, according to a new poll released Friday from Morning Consult. / PBN FILE PHOTO / MICHAEL SALERNO

PAWTUCKET – Live soccer matches and other events are still months away from happening at the stadium at Tidewater Landing. But that hasn’t stopped Rhode Island FC and stadium officials from introducing the new state-of-the-art facility to an energized public in an up close and personal way. The reigning United Soccer League Championship Eastern Conference […]

SOMERSET – Plans for a new cable manufacturing plant at the site of a former power plant on Brayton Point have been scrapped. A Prysmian Group spokesperson confirmed Monday to Providence Business News that the company has decided to not move forward with purchasing the land at Brayton Point and build the new manufacturing facility. […]

PROVIDENCE – An armory building that had been a focal point of developmental controversy in recent years, the state’s tallest skyscraper and an old mill building under contract to be acquired where tenants have recently unionized are among properties around the city noted in the Providence Preservation Society’s 2025 Most Endangered Places list. The society’s […]