The Latest from What'sUpNewp & A look at What's Up this weekend

🐶 Rejects Beer Co. and the Potter League for Animals will release their creation, “Whiskers Rebellion,” a brew that’s as bold as it is compassionate at a beer premiere this evening at Rejects Beer Co.

🐟 Your last chance to visit Save The Bay's Exploration Center and Aquarium at Easton’s Beach before it permanently closes its doors to the public is this weekend! Saturday, October 7, and Monday, October 9 mark the final two days that they will accept general admission before beginning their move to Save The Bay's Hamilton Family Aquarium, which is opening this winter.

🎶 The holiday weekend features all kinds of live music happening from fall festivals to dive bar jams. Check out a few top picks in our weekly column “Six Picks Music.”

🚲 The opening of Bike Newport’s Newport Traffic Garden has been moved from Saturday to Tuesday.

👏 For the first time in the history of Salve Regina University’s theatre program, students will be performing on Broadway.

👉 Newport City Council will interview applicants for the Ad Hoc Bridge Realignment Property Advisory Commission on October 10th and 11th. On October 10th, Council will interview Colin Kane (4 pm), Jeffrey Diehl (4:15 pm), and Brendan Ryan (4:45 pm). On October 11, Council will interview Tom Gibson (5:45 pm) and Sandi Warner (6 pm). All interviews will take place in the Second Floor Conference Room at City Hall.

Here’s a look at all of the most-read stories on WhatsUpNewp.com this week

There are special elections for Congressional District 1, State Senate District 1, and local referenda questions on November 7, 2023.

The commission was created as a result of legislation (2023-H 6449) sponsored this legislative session by Rep. Lauren H. Carson (D-Dist. 75, Newport), who serves as its chairwoman.

Stacker compiled statistics on gas prices in Rhode Island. Gas prices are as of October 6.

RIDOH State Health Laboratories confirmed these findings after testing 166 mosquito samples collected from 52 traps set statewide by DEM on Sept. 21, Sept. 26, Sept. 27, and Sept. 28.

Final days at the Exploration Center and Aquarium

GA-20, Tom Rush, Adeem the Artist and PRONK!

Here’s a look at the Newport Police Department arrest and dispatch logs for Thursday, October 5 through 7 am on Friday, October 6, 2023.

The Boston Bruins are looking ahead at a new season, not back at the one where they posted the best record in NHL history and then lost in the first round of the playoffs.

Whales, dolphins and seals living in U.S. waters face major threats from warming ocean temperatures, rising sea levels and decreasing sea ice volumes associated with climate change, according to a first-of-its-kind assessment.

For the first time in the history of Salve Regina University’s theatre program, students will be performing on Broadway

Event was originally scheduled for September 30

Here’s what’s on tap for weather this week and weekend.

Forecast includes rip current risk, surf height, weather, winds, and more.

Fall Visitors Weekend, Rogue Island Comedy Festival, 2023 Amica Newport Marathon & Half Marathon, Insperity Newport Cup , and more!

Manatee spotted in RI waters found dead offshore (WPRI)

Fire damages Jamestown home (WPRI)

Newport man hospitalized after rollover crash in Bristol (WJAR)

Saturday

Sunday

From Fall Visitors Weekend at West Place Animal Sanctuary to Rogue Island Comedy Festival, there’s something for everyone happening in and around Newport this weekend.

On the cruise ship schedule this week;