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The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) and Rhode Island Commerce Corporation announced on Monday the return of the Providence and Newport Ferry. What’sUpNewp first reported about the ferry returning on May 11th – Providence to Newport Ferry to resume May 25. The 2018 season has been expanded, with service starting on Friday, May 25, in […]

Aquidneck Land Trust (“ALT”) has awarded 12 grants totaling $16,000 to local community and neighborhood groups through its annual grant program, the Merritt Neighborhood Fund. Grant awards ranged from $500 to $2,500. Established in 1999 to honor the late Peter M. Merritt, the organization’s president emeritus, the Fund supports projects that strengthen community identity and […]

A split has already developed, with Dongfeng gybing to the north just before 1300 UTC on Monday while MAPFRE continues with the bulk of the fleet charging out to the southeast. It was a foggy first night at sea with Liz Wardley on Turn the Tide on Plastic tweeting on Monday morning: “The first time since leaving Newport that […]

Team Brunel accomplished its first goal on Sunday afternoon, taking the early lead on Leg 9 of the Volvo Ocean Race from Newport, Rhode Island to Cardiff, Wales. The Dutch team, led by eight-time race veteran Bouwe Bekking, has been on a tear over the last two months of the race and is attempting to muscle its […]

As a dense fog lifted and abundant sunshine washed over Newport, the City-by-the-Sea bid farewell to the Volvo Ocean Race. The fleet of seven VO65 race boats departed on a trans-Atlantic leg bound for Cardiff, Wales. With the fog cleared the race committee decided to send the fleet on a lap of the East Passage […]

The Race Village at the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover will be open at Fort Adams State Park from 10 am to 6 pm today. There is a parking fee of $20 today. Admission into the race village is free. Sunday, May 20th Race Village Open: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm For a full list […]

Salve Regina President Jane Gerety, RSM, will confer 785 degrees tomorrow (Sunday, May 20), when the university celebrates its 68th commencement on the Oceanside lawn of McAuley Hall. The academic procession steps off at 9:15 a.m., with the ceremony slated to begin beneath the commencement tent along the Cliff Walk at 10 a.m. Sister Jane will confer a […]

Fans of the Volvo Ocean Race have one more day to visit Fort Adams State Park to catch a glimpse of the international sailors and VO65 race boats. Tomorrow afternoon the fleet of seven yachts sets off on a trans-Atlantic race bound for Cardiff, Wales, on the third-to-last leg of the globe-girdling race. The race then […]

The seven boats of the Volvo Ocean Race 2018 fleet lined up off Fort Adams on Saturday afternoon for the start of the Gurney’s Resort In-Port Race. It was the final act of this year’s Newport stopover before the boats depart for a transatlantic leg to  Cardiff, Wales tomorrow afternoon. In addition to overall race […]

The Race Village at the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover will be open at Fort Adams State Park from 10 am to 7 pm today. There is a parking fee of $20 today. Admission into the race village is free. Saturday, May 19th Sailing Academy: 9 am – 1 pm Race Village Open: 10:00 am […]

After returning to the northern hemisphere with nearly 40,000 nautical miles in their wake, the sailors in the Volvo Ocean Race will shift gears to inshore racing with a focus on Saturday’s Gurney’s Resorts In Port Race Newport. In contrast to the long offshore ocean legs, the In Port Race Series features short course racing, close to […]

When the Volvo Ocean Race first visited Newport in 2015 a highlight of the stopover was the Ocean Summit. It brought together race competitors, organizers, environmentalists, philanthropists and corporate executives to raise awareness of plastics littering the world’s oceans. The first summit was such a success that the Volvo Ocean Race adopted the model for the current edition […]

Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty and Gustave White Sotheby’s International Realty announced on Friday that 36 Beacon Hill Road in Newport recently sold for $4,400,000. According to data from the Rhode Island Statewide Multiple Listing Service, this is the second highest sale in the municipality so far this year. The buyers of 36 Beacon Hill […]

A range of announcements at the Ocean Summit during the Newport stopover saw Rhode Island become the first US state to sign up to the UN CleanSeas campaign to fight ocean plastic pollution. Volvo Cars revealed it will remove single-use plastics from all its offices, canteens and events across the globe replacing over 20 million […]

The Ocean Summit at the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in Newport, Rhode Island, will showcase innovative solutions to the plastic crisis affecting the world’s oceans. For the first time it will be streamed LIVE on Friday 8th May 0830 – 1140 EDT (1230- 1640 UTC) on volvooceanrace.com and one session will be LIVE on Facebook 0900 – 1010 EDT […]

The Race Village at the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover will be open at Fort Adams State Park from 10 am to 7 pm today. There is a parking fee of $20 today. Admission into the race village is free. Friday, May 18th M32 Guest Sailing: 9:45 am – 10:25 am Race Village Open: 10:00 […]

The MetLife Veterans Regatta, a therapeutic event for veterans of active service duty, brought together 12 veterans from around the country for training and racing at the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover on Mondayand Tuesday. Racing in Sail Newport’s fleet of J/22 sailboats, the veterans’ crews also included a representative of race teams Vestas 11th Hour Racing, […]

As the Official Timekeeper of the Volvo Ocean Race, OMEGA has been keeping a precise eye on this year’s action at sea. The sailors have now stopped in Newport, Rhode Island, to complete Leg 8 of the race, and OMEGA celebrated the moment by unveiling its newly-designed winner’s watch. The Seamaster Planet Ocean Deep Black […]

Twenty years ago Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport engineer Gary Huntress came across a technical challenge he felt he just had to try. Entrants were tasked with identifying the call sign of a very weak EME (earth-moon-earth) Morse code signal in a zipped 1 minute .wav file. Using MatLab as the primary analysis […]

Biodiesel will be working overtime as the Volvo Ocean Race ports in Newport, Rhode Island for its only North American stopover. The global race, which is known for rugged competition and its commitment to sustainability, was a natural fit for biodiesel, America’s Advanced Biofuel. A blend of 20 percent biodiesel (B20) is being use used […]

The Race Village at the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover will be open at Fort Adams State Park from 11am to 7 pm today. There is a parking fee of $10 today. Admission into the race village is free. Tuesday, May 15th MetLife Veterans Regatta Clinic: 9 am to 7 pm M32 Sailing: 2 pm […]

The first week of the Volvo Ocean Race Newport Stopover has attracted more than 40,000 visitors to the Race Village at Fort Adams State Park. Newport is hosting the only North American stopover of the global race for the second consecutive edition and in 2015 the stopover attracted more than 131,000 fans in total. The […]