Good Wednesday Morning.
🚗 With the arrival of November comes the end of the paid metered parking season in Newport. Read More
🏠 Tyler Bernadyn has a full rundown of all the properties that changed hands in Newport County last week. Read More
🏆 Narragansett Boat Club’s junior rowers sliced through the competition at the Head of the Fish Regatta in Saratoga Springs, New York this past weekend with top 10 finishes in sixteen of the twenty-seven races they entered. Read More
👏 With the help of the city’s crew and its bulb planting machine, a huge field of daffodil bulbs has been planted in Miantonomi Memorial Park. Read More
🤩 Don’t Miss It: Taylor Swift! The Eras Tour, the concert film experience, lands at The JPT on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Details
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WHAT’S UP TODAY
Weather
Today: A chance of showers, mainly between noon and 5 pm. Cloudy, with a high near 47. North wind 13 to 15 mph. The chance of precipitation is 40%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy during the early evening, then gradual clearing, with a low around 32. Northwest wind around 10 mph.
Marine Forecast
Today: NNE wind 11 to 13 kt becoming N in the afternoon. A chance of showers, mainly between noon and 5pm. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tonight: NNW wind around 9 kt. A slight chance of showers before 7pm. Seas 1 ft or less.
Coastal Water Temperature: 61°F.
Sun, Moon, & Tide
Sunrise: 7:16 am | Sunset: 5:40 pm | 10 hours and 23 minutes of sun.
High tide at 11 am & 11:28 pm | Low tide at 3:39 am & 4:45 pm.
Moon: Waning Gibbous. 18 days, 89% lighting.
Things To Do
4:15 pm: Senior Ballroom Dance Classes at Common Fence Point Community Center
5:30 pm: Richard Potter, America’s First Black Celebrity: A Talk with Scholar John Hodgeson at Newport Historical Society
6 pm: Zumba! at The Academy at Newport Contemporary Ballet
6 pm: ¡Qué Vivan los Muertos! Una celebración de Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead Celebration) at Newport Art Museum
6:30 pm: Fermentation Class at Forty 1 North
7 pm: Ballroom Dance at The Academy at Newport Contemporary Ballet
Live Music & Entertainment
Buskers: Open Mic with Mike Warner at 9 pm
Fastnet Pub: Trivia at 9 pm
JPT Film & Event Center: Klimt & The Kiss at 4:30 pm & 7:30 pm
O’Brien’s Pub: Karaoke at 9:30 pm
Sardella’s: Live Jazz music at 7 pm
Local Government
Jamestown: Board of Canvassers at 12:30 pm, Town Council at 7 pm, Planning Commission at 7 pm
Little Compton: School Committee at 3:30 pm, Agricultural Conservancy Trust at 7 pm
Newport: School Committee - Policy Subcommittee at 5:30 pm
Portsmouth: Melville Park Committee at 6 pm, Harbor Commission at 7 pm
Tiverton: Personnel Board at 5:30 pm, Zoning Board of Review at 7 pm
See the agenda for the meetings mentioned above here.
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Further Reading
East Bay Times: Portsmouth High boys take 2nd in Class B championship