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Good morning, Newport! 🗓️ Today is Tuesday, Aug. 5, the 217th day of 2025. There are 148 days left in the year.
🏡 Another busy week in Newport County with 21 homes sold across our community, ranging from a $295,000 manufactured home in Tiverton to a beautiful $4,795,000 single-family on Catherine Street in Newport. Tyler Bernadyn has a look at What Sold.
⚾ The Newport Gulls erupted for 10 runs over two innings to defeat the Martha’s Vineyard Sharks 14-7 in Game 1 of their New England Collegiate Baseball League semifinal series Monday night, moving within one victory of returning to the championship series for a third consecutive season.
🏄 What’sUpNewp’s Ruthie Wood has all the details on the Inaugural Ocean State Crossing, which will bring competitive paddleboard racing to Newport this week.
🧑⚖️ A federal judge says Rhode Island’s gun permit system, which requires residents to show “a need” to openly carry a firearm throughout the state, does not violate the Second Amendment.
Thanks for reading,
-Ryan Belmore | Publisher, What’sUpNewp
WHAT’S UP TODAY
Today: Widespread haze between 10 am and 2 pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 79. Light and variable wind becoming southeast 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 64. Northeast wind around 6 mph.
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy, with a high near 77. East wind 8 to 10 mph.
Today: Variable winds less than 5 kt becoming SE 5 to 7 kt in the morning. Widespread haze between 10am and 2pm. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tonight: Variable winds 5 kt or less. Mostly cloudy. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tomorrow: NNE wind 7 to 9 kt becoming E in the afternoon. Mostly cloudy. Seas 1 ft or less.
The coastal water temperature is 67 degrees.
Sunrise at 5:44 am. Sunset at 7:58 pm. 14 hours & 13 minutes of sun.
High tide at 5:18 am & 5:52 pm. Low tide at 10:47 am.
The lunar phase is a Waxing Gibbous.
Things To Do
10 am: Sensory Hours at The Sailing Museum
10:30 am: Summer Family Programs Traveling Tuesdays: Colonial Kids at Hunter House
5:30 pm: Bike Newport Happy Hour at Newport Craft
5:30 pm: Sunset Series at Fogland Beach
6 pm: Family Night Concert at Easton’s Beach
6 pm: Third Beach Yoga at Third Beach
6 pm: The Eaddo H. & Peter D. Kiernan III Lecture at Rosecliff
6:30 pm: Cruise with the Island Time Steel Band from Jamestown
7 pm: Singles Sunset Cruise (35-50 Years Old) at The Lobster Bar
7:30 pm: Movie Night at The Sailing Museum
Live Music & Entertainment
JPT Film & Event Center: Reversal of Fortune at 4 pm, Wind at 7:30 pm
Landing: Jay Parker at 12:30 pm, Adam Hanna at 4 pm, John Erickson at 8 pm
Narragansett Cafe: Trivia at 7 pm
Newport Craft: Indoor Cornhole Tournament at 7 pm
One Pelham East: Stu Sinclair at 9 pm
Newport County Public Meetings
Jamestown: Fire Department at 7 pm
Little Compton: Planning Board at 7 pm, Beach Commission at 7 pm
Middletown: Tax Exploration Sub-Committee at 6 pm
Newport: School Committee at 5:30 pm
Portsmouth: Technical Review Committee at 1 pm
Tiverton: Charter Review Commission at 6 pm, School Committee at 6 pm, Planning Board at 6:30 pm
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