What's Up This Weekend: Oct. 8 - 10
The Broadway Street Fair returns today with music, food, artists, and family fun from 12 pm to 5 pm.
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🍁 When voters go to the polls in less than two weeks, they will be voting on far more than local and statewide offices. There are three statewide bond issues, totaling some $400 million, and several local referenda, from legalization of retail marijuana sales to school construction and regionalization.
WUN’s Frank Prosnitz with the story - Voters to consider important statewide and local referenda
🍁 Yesterday we had 30-minute conversations with candidates for Newport School Committee;
9:30 am: Louisa Boatwright, candidate for Newport School Committee | Watch
10:30 am: Robert Power, candidate for Newport School Committee | Watch
We have chatted with every member of the Newport School Committee except Robert Leary, we are working with him to set up a time to chat. On the City Council At-Large side, we spoke to five out of the seven candidates - Jeanne Marie Napolitano and Mark Aramli did not respond to our invite. Watch all the interviews here.
🍁 The Broadway Street Fair returns today with music, food, artists, and family fun from 12 pm to 5 pm. More Details
🍁 The Rogue Island Comedy Festival continues today with three show at The JPT and wraps up tomorrow with two shows at Diego’s Barrio Cantina. Schedule & Details
🍁 More than 2,500 runners will take to the streets of Newport and Middletown for this weekend’s Amica Marathon & Half Marathon. The race begins at 7:30 am on Sunday. Read More
🍁 On the schedule for Monday is Newport Feta Italiana’s Italian Heritage Parade.
🍁 This is the last weekend of the year for Summer Sushi at Clarke Cooke House.
🍁 Smoke House’s last day of service this season is on Monday.
What’s Up Today
Weather
Today: Rain likely, mainly before 8am. Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 59. Northwest wind 7 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight: Clear, with a low around 42. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph.
Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 62. Southwest wind 7 to 15 mph.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 49. West wind 5 to 8 mph.
Columbus Day: Sunny, with a high near 63. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 8 mph in the morning.
Monday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 49. West wind 3 to 6 mph.
Marine Forecast
Today: NNW wind 6 to 9 kt. Rain likely, mainly before 10am. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tonight: WNW wind 6 to 8 kt. Clear. Seas 1 ft or less.
Sunday: W wind 6 to 9 kt becoming WSW 9 to 12 kt in the afternoon. Sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.
Sunday Night: W wind 5 to 8 kt becoming variable and less than 5 kt after midnight. Mostly clear. Seas 1 ft or less.
Columbus Day: Variable winds less than 5 kt becoming SW 5 to 7 kt in the afternoon. Sunny. Seas 1 ft or less.
Monday Night: WSW wind around 6 kt becoming variable and less than 5 kt in the evening. Mostly clear. Seas 1 ft or less.
Coastal Water Temperature: 62°F.
Sun, Moon, & Tide: Saturday
Sunrise: 6:49 am | Sunset: 6:15 pm | 11 hours & 26 minutes of sun.
High tide at 7:11 am & 7:35 pm | Low tide at 12:45 am & 1:09 pm.
Moon: Waxing Gibbous, 12.7 days, 95% lighting.
Sun, Moon, & Tide: Sunday
Sunrise: 6:50 am | Sunset: 6:14 pm | 11 hours & 23 minutes of sun.
High tide at 7:58 am & 8:20 pm | Low tide at 1:16 am & 1:54 pm.
Moon: Waxing Gibbous, 13.8 days, 99% lighting.
Sun, Moon, & Tide: Monday
Sunrise: 6:51 am | Sunset: 6:12 pm | 11 hours & 20 minutes of sun.
High tide at 8:42 am & 9:04 pm | Low tide at 1:48 am & 2:36 pm.
Moon: Full Moon, 14.8 days, 100% lighting.
Happening This Weekend
What’s Up This Weekend: Oct. 7 – 10
‘Six Picks’ Events: What to do in RI this weekend (Oct. 7-10)
‘Six Picks’ Music: The best in local music this weekend (Oct. 7-10)
Singer/Guitarist/Songwriter Mike Kaufman to play Saint Paul’s United Methodist Church Oct. 8
Providence-Newport Ferry wraps up 2022 season on Oct. 10
The Amica Newport Marathon returns this weekend
Seven continent international marathoner to run state #29 in this weekend’s Amica Newport Marathon
Francisco Pais returns to the Jamestown Arts Center on Saturday to debut a new album
Fall Cruise Ship schedule updated
Cruise Ship Schedule
October 9 – Enchanted Princess (Capacity: 3,660 passengers, 1,346 crew)
October 10 – Norwegian Breakaway (Capacity: 3,963 passengers, 1,657 crew)
October 10 – Silver Whisper (Capacity: 388 passengers, 302 crew)
The Latest from WUN
Road Report: Schedule of lane closures and road construction projects (Oct. 8 – 15)
Voters to consider important statewide and local referenda
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Pulitzer Prize-winning ‘Sweat’ runs at The Gamm Nov. 3 – 27
Historic George Champlin Mason House lists with Residential Properties for $4.395M
The Kings Lens to present ‘The Show Must Go On” at The JPT on Oct. 28
Open Houses: 27 homes to check out in Newport County this weekend (Oct. 7 – 9)
Nobel Prize history from the year you were born
WUN-ON-ONE: A conversation with Robert Power, candidate for Newport School Committee
WUN-ON-ONE: A conversation with Louisa Boatwright, candidate for Newport School Committee
Nobel peace prize goes to Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian human rights activists
‘Six Picks’ Music: The best in local music this weekend (Oct. 7-10)
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