This week Steve and I sat down with Lucie Searle from The Providence Preservation Society to talk about PPS's upcoming Holiday Festival and Downtown Stroll Starting with a gala Patrons' Reception at City Hall: Friday, December 5th from 6 - 9 P.M., Providence City Hall is one of the country's best preserved examples of the Second Empire [...]

Join us on December 6th as we celebrate this festive event, with holiday music beginning at 2 p.m. Stroll through the many shops along the wharf, offering cookies, hot chocolate and cider. Frosty the Snowman arrives at 4:30 and a holiday sing-a-long begins at 5 p.m. The 38th official [...]

This week I got an email from a young man in New Jersey who has been thinking about taking the plunge and buying his first home, he has been listening to the show via the podcast, and is grateful for the advice I have been giving. There are a lot of myths and half-truths surrounding the real estate market these days, and it can be pretty [...]

Named one of the 20 most popular things to do in Rhode Island by Yankee Magazine, "Main Street Strolls" have been a catalyst for the revitalization of Main Street in East Greenwich. Aided by an influx of local shops and restaurants, the strolls have become a tradition throughout the summer months. Our East Greenwich office, conveniently [...]

Every year as the weather gets colder, I find that I become more vigilant in trying to use less energy and reduce my overall heating bill. Here are a few simple and inexpensive ways to save energy: [...]

The Rhode Island Association of Realtors released their third quarter statistics last week, and to no surprise, distressed home sales are driving the market. More than 1 in 4 single-family houses sold in the third quarter were foreclosures or short sales. More than half of all the distressed sales were in Pawtucket, Providence, Cranston and [...]

Our favorite time of year is fast approaching - the second week of December, which is Distribution Week for Adopt-A-Family, Inc. in Woonsocket. For some of us, it's an annual reunion with a couple hundred of our dearest friends; some we've known for 20 years and only see for one action-packed week in December. Now in its 26th year of [...]

Many Rhode Islanders are nervous in anticipation of the high cost of heating their homes this winter. As the topic of alternative energy in nearly everyone's discussions, it was a perfect time for the University of Rhode Island to host the 2008 Rhode Island Energy Expo. The expo is designed to offer innovative and practical strategies to [...]

The Rhode Island Association of Realtors released their third quarter statistics last week, and to no surprise, distressed home sales are driving the market. More than 1in 4 single-family houses sold in the third quarter were foreclosures or short sales. More than half of all the distressed sales were in Pawtucket, Providence, Cranston and [...]

Affordability was among the factors taken into account in this ranking for 2009. Cranston and Warwick were runners-up for the state. Click here to read BusinessWeek's review of Pawtucket and the other featured cities and towns across the nation. Click here to read the full article and view a video clip.