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Dozens of restaurants across Newport and Bristol counties will offer almost 60 specialty burgers during the Sixth Annual Newport Burger Bender Contest that begins Friday.


Newport County real estate transactions for the week of February 6 – 10, 2023.


‘Stouts & Snouts’ to benefit Potter League for Animals.
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