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🍁 newportFILM is screening Calendar Girls, a coming-of-golden-age film about the second teenage phase: the retirement phase, at The Casino Theatre this evening at 7 pm. RSVP
🍁 On tap this weekend: Newport Restaurant Week, Foodie Film Festival, Comedy Night at Rejects, Women’s Voices at Jamestown Arts Center, and much more. The full weekend rundown is here → What’s Up This Weekend: November 4 – 6
🍁 More than $347,000 in McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act Education for Homeless Children and Youth subgrants have been awarded to seven school districts (including Newport and Middletown) to support students experiencing homelessness. Read More
🍁 In this morning’s newsletter, we asked “What is your gut telling you about what will happen with the regionalization question in Middletown and Newport?”. So far 56% of poll voters believe that regionalization will be rejected. Take The Poll
🍁 Representative Lauren Carson (D - Dist. 75, Newport) joined What’sUpNewp for a live, virtual video conversation earlier today. Watch Or Listen
🍁 Boston Globe columnist Dan McGowan caught up with What’sUpNewp’s Ryan Belmore on regionalization. Dan’s column is here - A Newport-Middletown school district merger is the talk of Aquidneck Island this election season
🍁 Superstorm Sandy showed Ocean State what future storms could look like, ecoRI reports
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