POSITION: Development Coordinator TYPE: 30 hours per week SALARY: Starting rate between $15 to $20 per hour, future potential up to $25 per hour START DATE: Expected around September 17, 2018 OVERVIEW Clean Ocean Access (COA) was established in 2006 and is a growing citizen science environmental organization that became a non-profit organization […]
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Letter To The Editor: Domestic Violence is Everyone’s Business
It’s summer. The windows are open in your home. You hear the couple next door fighting. Do you call the police? The answer is yes. Don’t be afraid to call 911 and request what is called a wellness check on your neighbors. Police are trained to deal with these types of situations which can turn […]
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Letter To The Editor: Newport Public Schools leading the way for arts education
Summer is winding down, and the back to school rush is on. A new school year brings excitement, energy, and anticipation. As we think about the schools that our children will be attending this fall I’m taking a moment to celebrate the behind the scenes staff. Without them our teachers and principals wouldn’t shine. From […]
Posted inThings To Do
Newport Tour Guides & Greeters News – #35: Labor Day Weekend and August 2018 Wrap-Up
It has been a wonderfully busy summer! Now we come to wrap up the hot days of August and celebrate Labor Day Weekend in the City-by-the-Sea. There are still a few sailboat races ahead and the rush of tour buses crossing the bridge. It is not the end so much as it is the end […]
Posted inEnvironment & Health, Opinion
Letter To The Editor: 2018 George Donnelly Sunset League baseball season comes to a close
Our 2018 season and 100th season of George Donnelly Sunset League baseball has come to a conclusion with the Brother’s Baseball Club capturing the title. I would first off like to thank my beautiful wife Michele for her continued support of what I do, she is the bedrock behind the scenes of the league. Secondly […]
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Volvo Ocean Race provides global microplastic map
Photo: Leg 11, from Gothenburg to The Hague, start day. 21 June, 2018. Ainhoa Sanchez/Volvo Ocean Race Only three of the 75 samples collected during the race, south of Australia, east of Argentina and west of Ireland, have been found to contain no microplastics. The most recent data collected, before the race finale in The […]
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Letter To The Editor: Vote for Lauren Carson for State Delegate to the Democratic Party
To the editor: As a Newport Democrat, on Wednesday September 12 I am casting my vote for Lauren Carson for RI House District 75 Delegate to the RI State Democratic Party. Lauren’s credentials as a dedicated Democrat and her involvement in Democratic Party affairs is well-documented over the past years. Her tireless campaign efforts to bring women […]
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Letter To The Editor: Why I am Voting for Gina Raimondo
The following Letter To The Editor was submitted by David Alves of Newport. Have an opinion you’d like to share in Letter To The Editor? Email it to Ryan@whatsupnewp.com. I am proud to support Governor Gina Raimondo for re-election. I had the pleasure of working for Governor Raimondo for several years after a decade of […]
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Letter To The Editor: I will work to make Newport the best place to live, work, and comfortably retire
To the Editor: I am excited to announce that I am a candidate for the Newport City Council in the 1st Ward. I am a single father raising three young daughters and I am running for office so that I can have a hand in shaping the future of Newport. I was born and raised […]
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Letter To The Editor: Community should support the relocation of the National Sailing Hall Of Fame to Armory Building, Newport
Politically, it is always easiest to do nothing, to pass the buck, to kick the can down the road. That is why I would like to compliment the Newport City Council for crafting a solution to bring the Sailing Hall of Fame to Newport by subdividing the Armory Building into condominiums and selling the portion […]
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Letter To The Editor: Sale of Armory to National Sailing Hall Of Fame should be rejected
We are being conned by a group of Rhode Island politicians. Efforts to bring the National Sailing Hall of Fame to Newport go back 2009. From the (Annapolis) Capital Gazette Feb. 8, 2017: “In 2009…Mayor Jeanne-Marie Napolitano told me Newport turned down the NSHOF because she and the city council recognized that their city would […]
Posted inEnvironment & Health
Newport Gulls: Smith dominant in 7-1 win
The Newport Gulls are on a tear as of late picking up their fourth straight victory on Friday night with a 7–1 win over the Mystic Schooners. During this span, Newport has scored over five runs in each of their victories. The offense has caught fire and the Gulls are playing their best baseball of […]
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Newport Tour Guides & Greeters News – #29: Regattas, cruise ships, and learning
(Photo Credit: 12 Meter Charters) We are deep into summer and the full schedule of regattas on Narragansett Bay is underway. There are also the busy arrivals and visits of cruise ships docked off Fort Adams and near Perrotti Park. The downtown streets are busy with tour buses. Our sidewalks are jammed with an international […]
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Newport Tour Guides & Greeters News – #28: Japanese Culture, Baseball, & The Newport Music Festival
An exciting week of cultural events is at hand as Newport welcomes representatives from our sister city of Shimoda, Japan and the 35th Black Ships Festival takes place in Bristol. Check the listings below for details. We also have a great week of college baseball at Cardines Field hosted by our own Newport Gulls. And […]
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Volvo Ocean Race: Agreement will see IMOCA 60 boats in next race
A partnership agreement has been made with the International Monohull Open Class Association (IMOCA), which provides the exclusivity to use the IMOCA 60 for crewed round the world yacht races. Last week, during the finish of the Volvo Ocean Race in The Hague, an Educational Session for interested parties was held around the IMOCA Class […]
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Newport Tour Guides & Greeters News – #26: July 4th Weekend in Greater Newport
(Photo via 12 Meter Charters) A busy weekend is coming as our city helps the nation celebrate July 4th weekend. In Newport, there will be many first-time visitors, lots of activities, and just north of us in Bristol, Rhode Island, the nation’s oldest July 4th parade. The Bristol parade begins at 10:30 a.m. and will […]
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Majority of samples taken during Volvo Ocean Race contain microplastics, new data reveals
The Volvo Ocean Race Science Programme reached a significant milestone when the race completed a global circumnavigation following its arrival into Cardiff, Wales in May 2018, eight months after departing from Alicante, Spain. Out of a total of 68 samples taken during the course of the Volvo Ocean Race, only two, collected south of Australia […]
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Featured Job Listing: Rough Point – Visitor Services Associate (Front Gate/Greeter)
The Newport Restoration Foundation is seeking two part-time, dynamic, engaging Visitor Services Associates (3 days per week including one weekend day). The hours are 8:30 am until 5:00 pm. This position will be a floater between the front gate and the admissions desk on weekdays and will be located at the front gate on the […]
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Dongfeng Race Team win the Volvo Ocean Race with late pass on final day
Dongfeng Race Team has won the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 in the closest finish in race history. Skipper Charles Caudrelier led his team to victory on the final leg of the race, a 970-mile sprint from Gothenburg, Sweden to The Hague. Incredibly, it marked the first leg win for the team — it couldn’t have […]
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Final sprint sees east against west for Volvo Ocean Race win
It’s been a sleepless night for Volvo Ocean Race sailors and fans alike. The racing has never been closer and the stakes couldn’t be higher. On Saturday evening, a split developed among the three boats competing for the overall win in the Volvo Ocean Race 2017-18 – MAPFRE, Team Brunel and Dongfeng Race Team. The […]
Posted inEnvironment & Health
Contrasting weather for day two of the Clagett Regatta and the 2018 U.S. Para Sailing Championships
Conditions for day two of the 2018 Clagett Regatta and U.S. Para Sailing Championships, hosted by Sail Newport, was a complete 180 to day one with a gray, overcast day greeting the 44 sailors. The Race Committee took the three classes out to the course in a very light breeze that started out in an Easterly […]
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Volvo Ocean Race: First splits develop as race course options open up
A brief split opened up in the Volvo Ocean Race fleet on Saturday afternoon as team AkzoNobel and Team Brunel were pushed by an unexpected windshift to pass north and west of a commercial Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) while the race leaders, Dongfeng Race Team and MAPFRE slid down the east side. The early advantage […]
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Newport Tour Guides & Greeters News – #25: Sailing In Newport – Yesterday & Today
(Photo: 12 Meters race in Narragansett Bay. Photo by 12 Meter Charters) Newport’s history as a sailing capital is unrivaled. Summer is the best time to get aboard a sailboat and take to the waters of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island Sound, and the Atlantic Ocean. Many of our visitors arrive here unaware of the easy […]
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Volvo Ocean Race: Three teams poised to take the prize heading into winner-takes-all final leg
{Gothenburg stopover. Skippers Press Conference. 20 June, 2018. Jesus Renedo/Volvo Ocean Race} Three teams will start Leg 11 – the final 700 nautical mile sprint leg of the Volvo Ocean Race – in a virtual tie for the lead, setting up an epic, dramatic and unprecedented denouement. After racing over 44,000 nautical miles around the […]
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Volvo Ocean Race: Ocean Summit sets royal standard for Ocean health solutions
(Photo: Gothenburg stopover. Ocean Summit. 18 June, 2018. Jesus Renedo/Volvo Ocean Race) Karolina Skog, Swedish Government Minister for the Environment, revealed that the Swedish Government has allocated €7.8 million to 15 projects related to Ocean health at the event in the Volvo Ocean Race Village. Karolina Skog said: “The Swedish government has decided to allocate the […]