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Good Morning! Today is Thursday, March 2. Today’s newsletter is 1,209 words - approximately a 6-minute read.

♀️ March is Women’s History Month, and throughout the month, we’ll be celebrating some extraordinary women. These individuals have made their mark from the sports field to politics and government, from the courtroom to the board room.

Meet Glenna Collett-Vare, considered among America’s greatest female golfers. Born in New Haven, CT, and raised in Providence, Collett-Vare was “a pioneer in American women’s golf before the professional era and a charter member of the Women’s Golf Hall of Fame,” according to her obituary in the New York Times on Feb. 3, 1989.

Also, on the Women’s History Month front, check out these milestones in women’s history from the year you were born.

🇮🇪 Newport Mayor Xay Khamsyvoravong and the Newport City Council is inviting the public to join them at a reception on Thursday, March 9th, at The Edward King House to welcome members of a delegation visiting from Newport’s Sister City of Kinsale, Ireland. 

☘️ The Newport Saint Patrick’s Day Parade is next weekend! Here’s What’sUpNewp’s running list of what’s happening before, during, and after the parade.

🎶 The orchestra from the ballroom scene in HBO’s The Gilded Age is coming to The Great Hall of The Breakers, according to The Preservation Society of Newport County.

These will be the same musicians who played while guests danced at Gladys Russell’s debut ball in the show’s Season 1 finale – a scene filmed in The Breakers Music Room. On Thursday evening, March 2, this 25-piece orchestra will return to The Breakers for a program conducted and introduced by Dr. Mark A. Stickney, founder of the nonprofit Historic Music of Newport, and Dr. Christopher Brellochs, an internationally recognized lecturer, performer, music historian and educator who portrayed the real-life composer and conductor John Knowles Paine in “The Gilded Age.”

In-person attendance is sold out, but virtual attendance via Zoom is available here.

We published 31 stories yesterday on WhatsUpNewp.com; here’s a look at the latest since our last newsletter.

America’s “First Lady of Golf,” Glenna Collett Vare, was born in New Haven, Connecticut and raise in Providence, Rhode Island

Special Event Licenses for The Ocean Race and a Relief Fundraiser for Turkey; Mobile Food Truck Licenses; Ordinances; and more.

What’sUpNewp’s running list of what’s happening before, during, and after the 2023 Newport Saint Patrick’s Day Parade

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

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

Ishmael Leggett scored 20 points and Rhode Island held off Loyola Chicago 79-77 on Wednesday night.

Jayson Tatum is two days shy of his 25th birthday and has already accomplished more than many of his peers will in their entire careers.

Souley Boum scored a season-high 33 points and Colby Jones added 29 to help No. 19 Xavier beat No. 20 Providence 94-89 on Wednesday night and clinch the second seed in the Big East Tournament.

Scroll through to find out when women in the U.S. and around the world won rights, the names of women who shattered the glass ceiling, and which country’s women banded together to end a civil war.

DEM administers the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) with annual funding from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

November 16, 1942 – February 28, 2023

Here’s what What’sUpNewp stories folks were reading the most yesterday;

Boston Magazine: On the Market: A Newport Condo Tucked Away in a Stone Turret

NUWC: Historian shares Newport’s African American heritage as part of NUWC Division Newport’s Black History Month celebration

Atlas Obscura: Queen Anne Square’s “Meeting Room” – Newport, Rhode Island

URI Today: Sean Edmund Rogers named dean of University of Rhode Island College of Business

East Bay: Tiverton council calls for forensic audit of school department

ecoRI: Picking Up Nips Presents Great Challenge for Litter Patrollers

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