Bristol’s C and C Fiberglass wins ninth award for boating design excellence
To those standing in the cavernous garage of C and C Fiberglass Components on Ballou Boulevard last Friday morning, the smell of fiberglass was the smell of success. Among the boating enthusiasts and dignitaries who gathered inside the boat building company was Governor Lincoln Chafee, who admired the company’s products, including the J 100, which, [...]
Read More →Bristol’s boutiques enjoyed a busy holiday season
At I Boutique on Hope Street, co-owner Carol Scott didn’t need to look up sales receipts to know that the store had a good ending to 2012. As she’s done for the past eight years, Ms. Scott planned to take the first week of the new year to walk through the store, counting all the [...]
Read More →Wendy’s serves its last burger in Bristol
As of Thursday, Bristol will say good-bye to the signature square “hot ‘n juicy” hamburgers, such as the “Baconator,” a baked potato on the side, and a creamy smooth Frosty – in chocolate or vanilla – to end what was arguably the town’s greatest fast food meal. At the close of business on Thursday, December [...]
Read More →Chafee shares state’s plan for business at Bristol forum
Governor Lincoln Chafee, along with representatives from the RI Economic Development Corporation, the Small Business Administration, the Department of Labor and Training and other government and quasi-governmental agencies made a stop in Bristol on Tuesday morning. Their objective was to meet with small business owners to address their concerns with regard to how the state [...]
Read More →New Look Salon in Bristol marks 25th anniversary – by closing
It was Oct. 17, 1987 when Peggy Murgo and Ann Mello opened the New Look Hair Salon. Back then they were the only salon on Hope Street, and probably one of only five or six in the entire town. “Now I can count five in a four-block range,” Ms. Murgo said. On Oct. 17, 2012 [...]
Read More →Bristol resident’s dream takes bloom at Alexandrina’s Florist
After 15 years of making floral arrangements from live and silk flowers, Lorrie Mendonca of Bristol gave up her hobby. Instead, she turned her passion for flowers into her livelihood with the opening of Alexandrina’s Florist on Wood Street. “This is a total new career change for me,” she said. “A new endeavor.” In [...]
Read More →Bristol company continues the family line
At 90 years old, Joseph M. Brito, Sr. no longer oversees the day-to-day operations of C.B. Construction and C.B. Utility, companies that he and his father, Caesar Brito, founded in the 1950s. For the past five years or so, those responsibilities sat with the company’s vice president, Joseph M. Brito, Jr. After many years of [...]
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