Good Morning! Today is Thursday, January 26. Today’s newsletter is 1,217 words - approximately a 7-minute read.
🎉 Among the “holidays” being celebrated today are National Peanut Brittle Day, National Spouses Day, Australia Day, Basant Panchami, International Environmental Education Day, NASA’s Day of Remembrance, and Clashing Clothes Day!
📺 ICYMI: Newport School Superintendent Colleen Burns Jermain joined us yesterday for her monthly chat. During the conversation, we talk about regionalizations, Rogers High School constructions, ESL, and more. Watch here.
🗓️ What’sUpNewp has lined up several guests for WUN-ON-ONE, our live virtual interactive video interview series. Here’s who we’ll be chatting with soon;
Tuesday, January 31 at 9:30 am: Brad Read, Executive Director of Sail Newport, will join us to update us on the latest with The Ocean Race Newport Stopover (happening May 13 - 21).
Tuesday, January 31 at 12 pm: Dave Rosenberg, Organizer of Newport Winter Festival, to discuss what’s happening and new at the 35th Annual Newport Winter Festival (happening Feb. 17 - 26).
Wednesday, February 1 at 4 pm: Newport Mayor Xay Khamsyvoravong will join us to discuss City Council goals and priorities, to provide us with updates on the Pell Bridge Remaps project and regionalizations, and to discuss more.
Wednesday, February 15 at 10 am: Evan Smith, President of Discover Newport, will join us to discuss tourism - where we’ve come from throughout the pandemic and how 2023 is shaping up. Of course, we’ll hit on the latest trends, event updates, and much more.
Watch and interact with all of the interviews live as they happen on our website or watch them anytime afterward on our website.
Have a question for one of our guests, leave it in the comments below.
👉 Have someone in mind that we should definitely be talking to or you would love to hear more from in one of our WUN-ON-ONE interviews? Email [email protected].
What’s Up Today
☀️ Weather
Today: Rain likely, mainly before 9 am. Patchy fog before 8 am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a temperature falling to around 40 by 4 pm. Breezy, with a southwest wind of 15 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 43 mph. The chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and a quarter of an inch possible.
Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 32. West wind 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.
Tomorrow: Sunny, with a high near 41. West wind around 10 mph.
🛥️ Marine Forecast
Today: WSW wind 13 to 16 kt increasing to 17 to 20 kt in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 37 kt. A chance of rain, mainly before 9 am. Patchy fog before 8 am. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tonight: W wind 11 to 15 kt, with gusts as high as 30 kt. Mostly clear. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tomorrow: W wind around 9 kt becoming WSW in the afternoon. Sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.
Coastal Water Temperature: 41°F.
🌊 Sun, Moon, & Tide
Sunrise: 7:02 am | Sunset: 4:53 pm
High tide at 11:18 am & 11:50 pm | Low tide at 4:32 am & 4:45 pm.
Moon: Waxing Crescent. 4.7 days, 23% lighting.
🎭 Things To Do
3 pm to 8 pm: Taproot Taco Thursdays at Newport Vineyards
5:30 pm: Potter League for Animals 2022 Annual Meeting at Wyndham Newport
6 pm: “’On Location From …’ HBO and ‘The Gilded Age’” at The Marble House & Zoom
6 pm: Paint Your Pet… and have some pizza, too! at Aquidneck Restaurant & Pizzeria
For more events and things to do, visit our events calendar.
🎶 Entertainment
JPT Film & Event Center: A Man Called Otto at 4:30 pm & 7:30 pm
Midtown Oyster Bar: John Erikson at 8 pm
One Pelham East: Ryan McHugh from 8 pm to 11:30 pm
Ragged Island Brewing: Trivia in the Barn at 6 pm
🏛️ City & Government
Jamestown: Technical Review Committee at 10 am
Middletown: Prevention Coalition at 5:45 am, School Committee at 5 pm
Portsmouth: West Side Development Advisory Committee at 7 pm
See the full list of public meetings in Rhode Island here.
On WhatsUpNewp.com
🆕 The Latest
Yesterday we published 30 stories on What’sUpNewp. Here’s a look at all of the latest headlines since our last newsletter;
With No. 23 Providence trailing Butler by seven midway through the first half, Friars coach Ed Cooley brought Jared Bynum off the bench.
Ishmael Leggett’s 25 points helped Rhode Island defeat Dayton 75-70 on Wednesday night.
Newport Superintendent of Schools Colleen Burns Jermain, appearing on a WhatsUpNewp videocast today, said that the current Career and Technical Center Building will not be demolished until there are funds to replace it.
Brad Read, Executive Director of Sail Newport, will join What’sUpNewp on January 31 at 9:30 am to share all of the latest details on The Ocean Race’s only North American stopover.
The 2023 Restaurant and Chef Semifinalists are recognized across 23 categories, including the new Award for Outstanding Bakery.
Newport School Superintendent Colleen Burns Jermain sent out the following Community Update to Newport Schools parents, families, and staff, on Wednesday, January 25.
In a review of Rhode Island short-term rentals on the site AirDNA, the majority (68%) of rentals around the state have complied with the registration requirement. But in Newport, only 268 (33%) of the 821 active rentals are registered in the state system, meaning 553 have not.
Coming up on Wednesday, February 1 at 4 pm.
The victims were in Rhode Island, New York, Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina, Missouri and Florida.
❤️ Recent Local Obituaries
March 02, 1935 – January 24, 2023
📈 Wednesday’s Most-Read
Here’s what What’sUpNewp stories folks were reading the most yesterday;
📖 Further Reading
General Assembly: Rep. Tanzi introduces bill to include casinos in workplace smoking ban
✌️We’ll See You Out There
Thanks for waking up with What’sUpNewp,
- Ryan