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Good morning, Newport!
🗓️ Today is Tuesday, July 29, the 210th day of 2025. There are 155 days left in the year.
🏘️ Seventeen homes traded hands last week across Newport County. Tyler Bernadyn has a look at What Sold.
🎬 Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Christine Baranski will appear at The Elms on Aug. 7 for a special edition of the annual John G. Winslow Lecture, where she’ll discuss HBO’s “The Gilded Age” and her career.
⚠️ The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management has issued an air quality alert for Newport and Washington counties Tuesday, warning that ground-level ozone is expected to reach unhealthy levels for sensitive groups.
✊ Community members will rally this evening to oppose the potential closure of the only labor and delivery unit on Aquidneck Island. Note - The rally has been moved from the Great Friends Meetinghouse to in front of Newport City Hall.
🚲 Bike Newport will celebrate the installation of solar power at its Big Blue Bike Barn with a community event this evening.
🗓️ On tap this weekend and weekend: Newport Jazz Festival, The Big Lebowski Party, Made in Newport Film Series, and more. Get the full rundown here.
-Ryan Belmore | Publisher, What’sUpNewp
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WHAT’S UP TODAY
Today: Patchy dense fog before 8am. Otherwise, partly sunny, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 86. Southwest wind 6 to 10 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 70. Southwest wind 5 to 8 mph becoming northwest after midnight.
Tomorrow: Sunny, with a high near 83. East wind 5 to 10 mph becoming south in the afternoon.
Sunrise at 5:37 am. Sunset at 8:04 pm. 14 hours & 27 minutes of sun.
High tide at 12 pm. Low tide at 4:55 am & 5:17 pm.
The lunar phase is a Waxing Crescent.
The coastal water temperature is 70 degrees.
Things To Do
11 am: Colonial Jewish Walking Tours at Loeb Visitors Center
4 pm: Movement Music: Protest and the How/Where/Why People Move at Salve
5:30 pm: Bike Newport Happy Hour at Newport Craft
6 pm: Family Night Concert at Easton’s Beach
6 pm: Third Beach Yoga at Third Beach
6 pm: The William and Jacalyn Egan Lecture at Rosecliff
7 pm: Singles Sunset Cruise (Ages 35 to 50) at The Lobster Bar
7:30 pm: Celebrate Solar Power at the Big Blue Bike Barn
Live Music & Entertainment
JPT Film & Event Center: F1 The Movie at 4 pm, It’s Complicated with pop up shop by Little Chateau at 7:30 pm
Landing: Dan Decristofaro 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
Ragged Island Brewing: Kate Virginia at 5 pm
Newport County Public Meetings
Middletown: Middletown 250th Committee at 5 pm
THE LATEST ON WUN
Here’s a look at what. sold in Newport County, July 21 – 25, 2025
Additional tickets available for Aug. 7 event at mansion where HBO series films
Sour Grapes is a comic about “Aesop”, a miserable flying dog and his odd friends, all living in a problematic and troubled world.
Harvard senior captures 8 first-place finishes in 470 class at premier sailing event
In “Nothing More of This Land,” writer Joseph Lee reflects on being Wampanoag in a place shaped by colonization.
Brooks Lee hit a two-run single off Jordan Hicks in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox after a 90-minute rain delay Monday night.
High-energy production numbers, stellar performances, and timely themes make this Tony Award-winning musical a must-see summer show
Newport’s historic Unitarian Universalist congregation will welcome Rev. Dr. Smith to the pulpit for the first time on August 3.
Peak ozone levels expected late afternoon through evening along immediate coastline
Newport Jazz Festival, The Big Lebowski Party, Made in Newport Film Series, and more.