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SPONSORED CONTENT IN THIS ISSUE

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Community Partners

Companies that support the Common Good .

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The Big Give

A look at what nonprofit organizations do for our communities .

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Hospital Guide

A new section highlighting the exceptional hospitals in our area . This section also includes health care profiles .

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Five Star Wealth Managers

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Independent Schools

Some of the area ’ s leading private schools .

CONTRIBUTORS

Profiling new PC men ’ s basketball coach Kim English was a trip down memory lane for Mike Stanton , a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of two books , including The Prince of Providence . Stanton covered the Friars for The Providence Journal in 1985 , including their young new coach Rick Pitino , and then Rick Barnes , who became a future mentor to English . Stanton caught up with Barnes and reunited with Pitino at Big East Media Day , where he also talked to Ed Cooley about leaving PC . Stanton is now a journalism professor at the University of Connecticut but still lives in Rhode Island — and may be the only college basketball fan with season tickets to PC and UConn .

Photographer Mary Murphy worked with Mike Stanton at The Providence Journal for more than thirty years , so it was a bonus to reunite with him for the Kim English story . She found English to be a dynamic person and coach , hyperfocused on the job . Capturing his energy was challenging , but it was also exciting to photograph him as he launches the team into the next era of Providence College basketball .

Al Daniel is a freelance writer with a penchant for human-interest narratives surrounding sports , A & E ( especially nineties nostalgia ) and all things Rhode Island . He has contributed to Mental Floss , School Renewal Magazine , Moses Brown School , U . S . College Hockey Online and FanSided . “ I got hooked on hockey at the Portsmouth Abbey ice rink , grew up frequenting and following the Providence Bruins , then covered Providence College ’ s historic women ’ s program as a student-journalist ,” he says . “ Rounding up the state and sport ’ s intersecting history was a pleasurable payoff for all of that .” 🆁