Westerly, RI – On any given day in Rhode Island, there are more than 1,000 men, women, and children living in emergency shelters, cars, train stations, struggling simply to survive. Joe Glennon was one of them, until he turned his life around. There was a time when Joe would call his car his home, a […]
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Podcast: Musician Kerri Powers, SNA Chats about 5k By The Bay
On this edition of What’sUpNewp Radio on AM 1540 WADK Newport we catch up with blues-folk artist Kerri Powers by phone before her Common Fence Music show this Friday. Lieutenant commander Josh Kempinski, Vice President of the Surface Naval Forces (SNA) Chapter Newport, also stops by the show discuss their upcoming 5k By The Bay, that’s […]
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Podcast: Vietnam Veterans and Agent Orange
Two bills are pending in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives that would restore disability benefits to hundreds of thousands of Vietnam Veterans suffering from Agent Orange-related illnesses. WUN’s Frank Prosnitz chats with two Vietnam Veterans on this edition of The Open Forum on AM 1540 WADK Newport who are on a crusade […]
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PODCAST: Interview with Keith Stokes about Newport’s African American History
Keith Stokes, Vice President of 1696 Heritage Group, joined me on The Open Forum on 1540 AM WADK Newport on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to discuss enriched Newport’s African American History. Topics included the African American experience at home and overseas during WWI, Newport’s Gilded Age in color, slavery in Newport and much much […]
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PODCAST: Interview with Tony Gugliotta, Brad Read, Jarvis Green and Patrick Pass
Sean McNeill, a local sailing writer and public relations expert, joined Ryan Belmore, Owner/Editor of What’sUpNewp, as Co-Host on the Friday, January 15th edition of The Open Forum on 1540AM WADK Newport. The show was jam packed with guests and started off with an update from NBC 10‘s Tony Gugliotta on the Bristol 4th of July Parade. Following the discussion […]