Usually on the second Monday of the month I’d be joined by Evan Smith from Discover Newport, because Evan is on vacation this week, I had a full show to talk about whatever need to be talked about (or what I wanted to talk about).

The show started off with a conversation about locally made gear that the 2016 USA Olympic Athletes received, we quickly and abruptly changed course to chat about the controversy about the proposed new fire/rescue boat, finally we were joined by Nick Lima to chat about the end of the Newport Gulls 2016 season.

Listen to the podcast below;

12:30pm to 1pm

1pm to 2pm

Listen to The Open Forum with Ryan Belmore every weekday from 12:30pm to 2pm on AM 1540 WADK.

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...