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Good Morning, Newport! Today is Wednesday, September 4, the 248th day of the year; 118 days remain in 2024.

📚 Today is the first day of school for Newport Public Schools! Best of luck to the students, teachers, parents, staff, and administration on the new school year!

⚽ In our continuing efforts to expand our community coverage, What’sUpNewp is diving deeper into local high school and college sports. To do so, photographer Justin Walker has joined our contributing team. Justin Walker is a Newport County native who has over a decade of experience starting in college covering high-profile events and collegiate and professional sports in Washington, D.C.

Justin’s first story is up – Girls Soccer: Middletown defeats Tiverton 7 – 1. We look forward into diving into more local sports and having Justin as part of our team.

As always, your feedback and ideas are welcome for coverage. Email me at ryan@whatsupnewp.com.

🗳️ With less than a week to go until the General Primary, 369 Newport voters have participated in the 2024 State Primary thus far. Read More

🎾 Maria Sharapova, a five-time Grand Slam singles champion, and the doubles team of brothers Mike and Bob Bryan are on the ballot for the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s class of 2025. Read More

🎉 Happy Anniversary to Empire Tea & Coffee, which opened on Broadway on this day twenty years ago! Join them for their big celebration on Saturday, September 21!

✈️ I’m headed to Chicago for the 2024 Independent News Sustainability Summit this week. Do you have any Chicago recommendations or Newport-related stories I should pursue while in the Windy City? Let me know at ryan@whatsupnewp.com.

What’s Up Today

Weather

  • Today: Sunny, with a high near 74. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon.
  • Tonight: Clear, with a low around 56. South wind 3 to 6 mph.

Marine Forecast

  • Today: Variable winds less than 5 kt becoming S around 6 kt in the afternoon. Sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.
  • Tonight: Variable winds 5 kt or less. Clear. Seas 1 ft or less.
  • Coastal Water Temperature: 69°F.

Sun, Moon, & Tide

  • Sunrise: 6:15 am | Sunset: 7:12 pm | 12 hours & 57 minutes of sun.
  • High tide at 9:23 am & 9:36 pm | Low tide at 2:38 am & 2:51 pm.
  • Moon: Waxing Crescent. 0.8 days, 1% lighting.

Things To Do

Live Music & Entertainment

  • Buskers: Open Mic with Mike Warner at 9 pm
  • Fastnet Pub: Trivia at 9 pm
  • Fifth Element: Ruby Mac from 7 pm to 10 pm
  • JPT Film & Event Center: It Ends With Us at 4:30 pm, Between The Temples at 7:30 pm
  • Landing: Mark Flynn at 4 pm, Jim Devlin at 8 pm
  • One Pelham East: Adam Go from 9 pm to 12:30 am
  • Ragged Island Brewing Company: Andre Arsenault from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm
  • Sardella’s: Live music at 7 pm
  • The Quencher: Karaoke at 9 pm

Newport County Government

What’s Up This Week

What’sUpNewp stories related to this week.

Cruise Ship Schedule

Coming up next on the 2024 Cruise Ship Schedule;

  • Wednesday, Sept. 4 | Viking Mars
  • Sunday, Sept. 8 | Enchanted Princess
  • Sunday, Sept. 8 | 7-Seas Grandeur
  • Monday, Sept. 9 | Insignia
  • Monday, Sept. 9 | Norwegian Breakaway
  • Tuesday, Sept. 10 | 7-Seas Grandeur

The Latest from What’sUpNewp

Newport School Committee to review superintendent applications

Newport’s School Committee will begin reviewing applications for an interim school superintendent on Wednesday to replace Colleen Burns Jermain, who announced in October that she will be leaving at the end of the school year.

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Ryan Belmore is the owner and publisher of What's Up Newp. He took over the publication in 2012 and has grown it into a three-time Rhode Island Monthly Best Local News Blog (2018, 2019, 2020). He was named LION Publishers Member of the Year in 2020 and received the Dominique Award from the Arts & Cultural Society of Newport County the same year. He has been awarded grants for investigative and community journalism, and continues to coach and mentor new local news publications nationwide. Ryan...

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