Ryan Belmore

A peace rally is being organized to take place in Washington Square in Newport on Saturday, July 9th from 1pm to 2pm. The rally is in response to the officer involved shooting in Louisiana where Alton Sterling was killed on Wednesday, it has been called (as seen below) a “Black Lives Matter” rally by some […]

Ron Kitt from Newport Kite Festival, Musician Justin Pomfret, and Brad Read from Sail Newport joined us today on The Open Forum on WADK 1540 AM. Ron joined us around 1:15pm to chat about this weekend’s upcoming Newport Kite Festival. Justin joined us around 1:30pm to chat about his upcoming CD release party on Saturday […]

Acclaimed actor and musician Jack Black (“School of Rock”, “Kung Fu Panda”) stars in the new feature film comedy “The Polka King”, written and directed by Maya Forbes and Wallace Wolodarsky. Ms. Forbes and Mr. Wolodarksy previously collaborated on the Golden Globe nominated movie, “Infinitely Polar Bear”, which was produced in the Ocean State in the summer […]

Sail Newport has launched a $10 million Campaign for BlueSpace to expand public access sailing programs, broaden its marine education programming and build a new Mid-Park Marine Education and Recreation Center on the waterfront at Fort Adams State Park. “We believe that everyone in our community, especially children, should have access to the ‘blue space’ of Narragansett […]

Aquidneck Land Trust (ALT) is pleased to announce that Sofia Taylor, a student of Portsmouth High School’s 2016 graduating class, is the recipient of the 2016 Environmental Leadership Award (ELA). Taylor was recognized at the Portsmouth High School awards banquet on May 26, 2016 for her demonstrated leadership and commitment to environmentalism. “Sofia has been […]

The Forts Adams Trust Summer Solstice event held on Friday evening June 24th was widely acclaimed as a great success on multiple fronts.   A record setting attendance of 145 guests helped raise over $13,500 for the Fort Adams Trust, another record over previous summer events.   The funds raised came from: individual ticket and […]

Hear about what the iconic singer had to say about his career, Newport Folk Festival, today’s music industry and much more. Peter Yarrow has a long history with Newport, he performed several times at the Newport Folk Festival during the 1960’s, was on the original board of the Newport Folk Festival and introduced Bob Dylan […]

Two of Newport’s favorite places to stay, dine and play have been nominated for “Best Waterfront Hotel” on USA Today‘s 10Best Readers’ Choice awards. All together, 20 hotels that “sit right on the water and offer their guests stellar views to go along with waterside facilities and amenities” were chosen by a panel of luxury travel […]

Existing and Custom Models Available Now for Summer Season Newport Beach Club has unveiled two new lines of luxury residences within its Waterside Village neighborhood overlooking Narragansett Bay:  classic Cape Cottages and elegant Condominiums. Waterside Village is the latest neighborhood developed by Northern Waterfront Associates, LP in collaboration with builder Sun Homes.   Newport Beach Club’s other phases […]

The inaugural weekend of the new Providence-Newport ferry service proved very popular with Rhode Islanders, as more than 1,000 people took advantage of this new transit connection during its debut this past Fourth of July weekend. From its start on Friday, July 1 through yesterday, July 4, approximately 1,300 people took the ferry from Providence […]

The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) is predicting that air quality will reach unhealthy levels during the afternoon and late into the evening hours on Wednesday, July 6th. The Alert is being issued statewide as the region will experience very warm weather and favorable conditions for ozone formation. The poor air quality will […]

Rhode Island State Police denied a request from the Associated Press for the St. George’s se/xual abuse investigate report on Tuesday. “Rhode Island state police won’t release their report into dozens of sexual abuse allegations at a prestigious boarding school because the matter is being investigated in other states. Read more from ABC News – State Police […]

Ruth Taylor, Executive Director of the Newport Historical Society, joined me today on The Open Forum on WADK 1540 AM to chat about the upcoming Newport Antiques Show. The 2016 Newport Antiques Show takes place July 22-24 at the St. George’s School Ice Rink in Middletown, RI; the Show opens with the July 21st Gala […]

Concerns of Brexit shaping the world economy seem to have little effect on luxury homes in Watch Hill, as a turn of the century mansion on Ninigret Avenue sells for $7,600,000 this past week. The nine bedroom home is set atop a bluff overlooking two ponds and the dunes of East Beach. The home was […]