Good morning, Newport! 🗓️ Today is Wednesday, Aug. 6, the 218th day of 2025. There are 147 days left in the year.
⚾ The Martha’s Vineyard Sharks stayed alive in dramatic fashion Tuesday night, overcoming an early deficit to defeat the Newport Gulls 14-5 and force a decisive Game 3 in their New England Collegiate Baseball League semifinal series. The loss sets up a winner-take-all Game 3 Wednesday night at Cardines Field in Newport. The winner will advance to face the Keene Swampbats in the NECBL championship series.
🛢️ The Rhode Island Energy Facility Siting Board will conduct two public hearings later this month to gather community input on a potential moratorium that could restrict new natural gas connections on Aquidneck Island.
🛥️ The Newport International Boat Show will feature expanded educational programming when it returns Sept. 11-14, show organizers announced Tuesday.
👉 Newport City Council will host a workshop on “Boards and Commission Oversight Committee” in the Council Chambers at Newport City Hall at 5:30 pm today.
Thanks for reading,
-Ryan Belmore | Publisher, What’sUpNewp
WHAT’S UP TODAY
Today: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 78. East wind 7 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Cloudy, with a low around 64. Northeast wind 5 to 7 mph.
Tomorrow: Partly sunny, with a high near 75. Northeast wind 6 to 9 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.
Today: NNE wind 5 to 9 kt becoming E in the afternoon. Mostly cloudy. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tonight: E wind around 6 kt becoming variable and less than 5 kt after midnight. Cloudy. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tomorrow: NE wind 5 to 8 kt becoming SE in the afternoon. Partly sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.
The coastal water temperature is 67 degrees.
Sunrise at 5:45 am. Sunset at 7:56 pm. 14 hours & 11 minutes of sun.
High tide at 6:12 am & 6:39 pm. Low tide at 12:07 am & 11:39 am.
The lunar phase is a Waxing Gibbous.
Things To Do
2 pm: Aquidneck Growers Market on Memorial Blvd.
5 pm: Jamestown Gallery Night + Meet The Artists at Jamestown Arts Center
5:15 pm: Middletown Rotary Club’s 30th Annual Community Picnic & Fundraiser at Kempenaar’s Clambake Club
6:30 pm: Fermentation Class at Forty 1 North
6:30 pm: Queer Connections: Game Night & Ice Cream at Newport Pride Center
Live Music & Entertainment
Buskers: Open Mic with Mike Warner at 9 pm
Fastnet Pub: Trivia at 9 pm
Landing: Mark Flynn at 12:30 pm, Motion Avenue at 4 pm, Jim Devlin at 8 pm
Newport Vineyards: La Mechante Et Le Connard at 5 pm
O’Brien’s Pub: Eoin Egan at 4:30 pm
One Pelham East: Karaoke at 9 pm
Ragged Island Brewing: Diamond Blues at 6 pm
Newport County Public Meetings
Jamestown: Planning Commission at 6:30 pm
Little Compton: Agricultural Conservancy Trust at 6 pm
Middletown: Library Building Committee at 3:45 pm
Newport: City Council at 5:30 pm
Portsmouth: Melville Park Committee at 6 pm, Harbor Commission at 7 pm
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