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Aquidneck Island will appear at least four times this month on HGTV’s Island Life. The show that follows everyday families” in search of their own slice of paradise, and prove that fantasy can be reality” recently followed a family who wanted to move from the mainland to Aquidneck Island and a couple who was looking […]

It’s a girl! The first baby to be born in Newport in the new year arrived at 10:01 p.m. on January 1st, according to Newport Hospital. Bailey Raine Libbey is the daughter of Richard and Michelle Libbey of Newport, Bailey weighed in at 7 lbs., 5.2 oz. “Bailey Raine, with your first breath you took […]

The FBI wants to know if you know the location or have information on Adam C. Emery, an individual who is wanted for a second-degree murder in 1990. Emery was convicted of second-degree murder in Rhode Island State Superior Court in Providence on November 10th, 1993. The conviction stemmed from an incident which occurred in August […]

Every New Year’s Day, the Newport Polar Bears invite anyone crazy enough to join them at Easton’s Beach for a swim in the frosty North Atlantic Ocean. Hundreds of brave individuals took advantage of the invite and embarked into the 40 degree water off of Easton’s Beach on Sunday at noon.  All proceeds and donations […]

More than 50,907 separate individuals read stories on whatsupnewp.com during the past 31 days, according to Google Analytics statistics, and their most favored stories constitute What’sUpNewp’s top (or most-read) stories of  December 2016. These choices were settled by our readers, who voted with their eyes and whose opinion matters most. 10. Your Suggestions: Future Of […]

(Photo by Larry Hart Bettencourt) Before you know it New Year’s Day will be here and area “polar bears” will be making their annual plunge into the frigid waters off Easton’s Beach. While taking a dip in near-freezing water might not necessarily benefit your health, this is certainly a party with a purpose and worth doing. […]

Craft Beer Corner is a regular column on What’sUpNewp, it is sponsored by The Wharf Pub. Each story is written by Sarah Fimple, Beverage Manager of The Wharf Pub. As the holiday season and 2016 ends, so does a lot of great seasonal beer. We at The Wharf Pub have had everything from Barrel Aged […]

When I sat down to write this editorial, I honestly had no clue where to start. For many of us, this past year has been a whirlwind, to say the least. Personally, 2016 was a year that marked a lot of change in my life, both good and bad. I was able to travel and […]

Unsurprisingly, the majority of the most-read stories on What’sUpNewp this year were fires, accidents and breaking news. Despite readers flocking to our site to find out the latest during breaking news, numbers show that our readers really enjoy events, brunch, dining and counting on us to point them in the right direction on what events, […]

At 1:30 p.m., a heavy show snow squall was along a line from near Wellesley to Bellingham in Massachusetts and Foster Rhode Island to just north of Hartford Connecticut, according to the National Weather Service. This snow squall will “This snow squall will briefly reduce visibilities to less than a quarter of a mile and […]

The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Advisory for all of Rhode Island, the Advisory is in effect from 7 p.m. on Thursday evening until 6 a.m. on Friday morning. Winds will blow 20 to 30 mph out of the west, with gusts up to 50 p.m. The National Weather Service forecast for Newport […]

A Tiverton man claimed a winning $50,000 PowerBall ticket from the December 21st drawing, according to the Rhode Island Lottery. The ticket was purchased for last Wednesday’s drawing and remained unclaimed until December 24th. The winner learned he won when he went to the store to play PowerBall for the Christmas Eve draw. When he […]

More than a decade ago the Newport Historical Society (NHS) began what is now an endowed program to bring young history scholars to the NHS each summer for research and training in the public side of history practice. The Buchanan-Burnham Summer Internship, funded by Helen Buchanan and Richard and Fanchon (Monty) Burnham, was visionary on […]

Sinclair Broadcast Group, the parent company of WJAR TV Channel 10 in Rhode Island, has vehemently denied allegations that they provided then presidential candidate, now president-elect Donald Trump with preferential treatment in interviews on several of their local affiliates. Politico and other media outlets reported that Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, told a business group at […]

A $50,000 PowerBall ticket was sold in Newport County for Wednesday night’s drawing. The winning ticket, which was sold in Tiverton, matched four numbers and the PowerBall number to win $50,000. The winner did not purchase the PowerPlay feature, which would have multiplied the prize by 5, the PowerPlay number for Wednesday night’s draw, to […]

As Newport welcomes the New Year, fireworks will be bursting in air. A private wedding, scheduled to take place at Belle Mer on Goat Island on December 31st, has plans to host a firework display as the clock hits midnight. Atlas PyroVision Entertainment Group will shoot off the fireworks somewhere between 11:59 p.m. – 12:15 a.m. […]

The owner of Middletown’s Bridge to Fitness, athletic facility at 951 Aquidneck Avenue accepts a dare to dress up as an elf all day on December 19th to raise contributions benefitting the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center Holiday drive.   Over $3,000 was raised for the MLK Jr. Center located at 20 Dr. Marcus […]

Panera Bread Newport, located at 49 Long Wharf North, is doing its part to make the holidays brighter for local families by collecting toys for 10 children served by Children’s Friend based in Providence Rhode Island. The toys were collected by Panera employees and customers and delivered by Newport Panera Bread General Manager Danielle Natale […]

More than 160 7th graders from Thompson Middle School traveled to the Newport Art Museum on December 19, to explore the Museum and learn about the life and career of esteemed architect Richard Morris Hunt, designer of the Historic N.A. Griswold House. This is the fourth year that the Art Department of the Newport Public […]

Soon after beginning their cleanup of a fume-filled tanker car at an Omaha, Neb., rail maintenance yard, Adrian LaPour and Dallas Foulk were dead. An explosion that April 2015 afternoon trapped LaPour in a flash fire inside the car and hurled Foulk out the top to his death. Six months later their employer, Nebraska Railcar […]

While some legislators and city and town officials from Providence to Newport explore ways to curb panhandling in Rhode Island, many of you, in a WhatsUpNewp and WhatsUpRhode Island poll, have made it clear that you want to see panhandlers disappear from city and town street corners. Overwhelmingly you said that panhandlers pose a safety […]