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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 […]

First I would like to apply a disclaimer to this post: everything said here is 100% satire and 100% serious. Ok Ladies, this one’s for you (especially). Let me start off by saying that this particular post is not intended to be sexist. As a quasi feminist myself I can admit that I do not […]

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 […]

Dorothy Carr Quinn, of Newport passed away peacefully on Sunday, July 3, 2016 at Newport Hospital. A native Newporter she was born on June 5, 1928 and was the daughter of Raymond H. Carr Sr. and Irene Diggles Carr. She was predeceased by her three older brothers, Robert F. Carr, Raymond H, Carr Jr. and […]

Spirit of South Carolina, a 140-foot-long, two-masted topsail schooner designed to take groups of novices to sea on sailing adventures, has arrived at Mystic Seaport — “The Museum of America and the Sea” — in Connecticut, and will be spending the summer in New England waters. Spirit is a pilot schooner reminiscent of the famed schooner America, a vessel that made our nation […]

The 2016 Independence Day weekend is now in the history books and it would be hard to ask for, predict and/or come across such a beautiful and busy weekend. Thank you Mother Earth for blessing us with great weather on what’s sure to be the busiest weekend of the year. The crazy weekend all wrapped […]

The Coast Guard was called Monday to a plane crash in the west passage of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Only the pilot, who was reportedly not injured, was aboard the aircraft during the crash. After the single-engine propellor plane plunged into the bay, a nearby good Samaritan aboard a recreational boat rushed to recover the […]