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🍕 The former Panera Bread is becoming a pizzeria → Team at Giusto to open a neighborhood pizzeria in former Panera Bread
🍳 WUN columnist Jay Flanders is kicking off 2023 with an interesting recipe → Tiny Kitchen Magic: Goat Liver and Goat Cheese Ravioli with Pink Vodka Sauce
🚗 WUN columnist Gerry Goldstein explores the art of nicknames → In this work, the nickname’s a calling-card
⛵ The Ocean Race 2022-23 started this weekend in Alicante, Spain with the opening of Ocean Live Park and the first In-Port Races. Team Malizia took first place, 11th Hour Racing took 2nd in the In-Port Race, while WindWhipser won the VO65 In-Port Race. Read More The Ocean Race stops in Newport May 13 - 21.
⛪ The Catholic Diocese of Providence announced Sunday that St. Madeleine Sophie Parish in Tiverton will merge into St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Little Compton. (WPRI)
🎵 Singer, songwriter, and producer William Joseph Cowsill Jr. was born on this day ni 1948 in Middletown. Bill Cowsill was the eldest of seven siblings from the Newport-based family band The Cowsills, and also performed as a solo artist and produced several Canadian bands over the course of his career.
What’s Up Today
☀️ Weather
Today: A chance of showers, mainly before 9 am. Cloudy through mid-morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 43. Calm wind becoming northwest at 5 to 9 mph in the morning. The chance of precipitation is 50%. New precipitation amounts to less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 31. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Tomorrow: Mostly sunny, with a high near 41. Northwest wind 7 to 11 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
🛥️ Marine Forecast
Today: Variable winds less than 5 kt becoming WNW 5 to 8 kt in the afternoon. A chance of showers, mainly before 9 am. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tonight: WNW wind 6 to 8 kt. Mostly clear. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tomorrow: WNW wind 6 to 10 kt. Mostly sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.
Coastal Water Temperature: 45°F.
🌊 Sun, Moon, & Tide
Sunrise: 7:11 am | Sunset: 4:33 pm | 9 hours and 22 minutes of sun.
High tide at 9:08 am & 9:32 pm | Low tide at 2:11 am & 3:03 pm.
Moon: Waning Gibbous. 16.6 days, 96% lighting.
🎭 Things To Do
2 pm: A Craft Talk with Helen Schulman at Ochre Court
7 pm: A Reading with Diana Goetsch at Ochre Court
For more events and things to do, visit our events calendar.
🎶 Entertainment
The Fastnet Pub: The Ubiquitones at 10 pm
The Fifth Element: The Groove Merchants from 7 pm to 10 pm
🏛️ City & Government
Middletown: Conservation Commission at 5:30 pm
Newport: School Committee - Ad Hoc School Building Committee at 5:30 pm
Portsmouth: School Committee - Policy Subcommittee at 4 pm, Design Review Board at 7 pm, Free Public Library at 7 pm, Town Council at 7 pm
Tiverton: Planning Board at 3 pm, Historical Cemeteries Commission at 6 pm, Historical Cemeteries Commission at 6 pm, Library Trustees at 7 pm, Town Council at 7 pm
See the full list of public meetings in Rhode Island here.
On What’sUpNewp
🆕 The Latest
We published 24 stories on our website over the weekend. Here’s a look at some of the headlines published since Friday’s newsletter.
❤️ Recent Local Obituaries
📈 This Weekend’s Most-Read
Here’s what stories folks were reading the most over the weekend;
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