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🕎 Happy Hanukkah to all those who celebrate! WUN’s Gerry Goldstein has a bit more to say about the holiday - Spelling aside, ‘Chanukah’ brightens the season
☀️ This Christmas week is forecast to have mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies, with a chance of rain on Thursday and Friday. Temperatures are expected to range from the high 20s to the low 40s, with some windy conditions at times. There may be some gusty winds and rain on Friday, with a chance of rain tapering off on Saturday. Christmas Day is forecast to be sunny, with temperatures in the low 30s.
🍲 WUN columnist Jay Flanders is back with a delicious recipe - Tiny Kitchen Magic: Beef Stew
🚧 The City of Newport’s Department of Utilities will be conducting repairs on the city’s sanitary sewer system infrastructure on Lower Thames Street between Narragansett Avenue and Stockholm Street beginning today. Read More
⚠️ After a delay last week due to weather, RIDOT is moving forward with their traffic changes around the Pell Bridge today. The new connector road removes all traffic from the bridge that carried Route 138 over Admiral Kalbfus Road and ended at a traffic signal instead of continuing along a future road that was never built, giving it the nickname “road to nowhere.” Read More
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Salve Today: Salve Regina’s graduate nursing program partners with PC Institute for Medical Education
What’s Up Today
Weather
Today: Sunny, with a high near 41. West wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 29. Northwest wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph.
Marine Forecast
Today: WNW wind around 14 kt, with gusts as high as 26 kt. Sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tonight: WNW wind around 14 kt, with gusts as high as 26 kt. Mostly clear. Seas 1 ft or less.
Coastal Water Temperature: 49°F.
Sun, Moon, & Tide
Sunrise: 7:07 am | Sunset: 4:17 pm | 9 hours and 10 minutes of sun.
High tide at 3:40 am & 4:01 pm | Low tide at 9:58 am & 9:42 pm.
Moon: Waning Crescent, 24.7 days, 24% lighting.
Things To Do
For more events and things to do, visit our events calendar.
Entertainment
Newport Playhouse: A Christmas for Carol at 11 am
The Fastnet Pub: The Ubiquitones at 10 pm
The Fifth Element: The Groove Merchants from 7 pm to 10 pm
City & Government
Jamestown: Town Council at 6:30 pm
Newport Tourism Marketing Management Authority at 9 am
Newport: School Committee at 5:30 pm
Tiverton: Library Trustees at 5 pm, Wastewater District at 5:30 pm, Harbor Commission at 7 pm
See the full list of public meetings in Rhode Island here.
