What's Up Today: Tuesday, March 28
A conversation with Heather Hole Strout | What Sold: Newport County real estate transactions | What's Up this week in and around Newport
Good Morning! Today is Tuesday, March 28. Today’s newsletter is 1,189 words - a 6-minute read.
📺 Heather Hole Strout, Executive Director of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center, joins What’sUpNewp at 11:30 am on Tuesday, March 28, for a virtual live video conversation.
During the conversation, we’ll chat with Heather about all that’s happening and new at the MLK Center, including an update on their big renovation, what services they are providing, who they can help/are helping, and what support they need from the community. Watch live or anytime afterward here. Have a question for Heather about the MLK Center? Leave it in the comments.
🏠 WUN’s Tyler Bernadyn looks at what homes changed hands last week in Newport County → What Sold: 18 Newport County real estate sales, transactions (March 19 – 25).
🏃♀️ On Tap For This Week: Newport Daffodil Days, Newport Night Run, Soak Up The Sun Spring Fundraiser Party, and more. Get the full rundown → What’s Up This Week: March 27 – April 2.
🎵 Goose is the latest Newport Folk Festival announcement. Keep an eye on the 2023 lineup here → 2023 Newport Folk Festival lineup announcements.
👉 Newport City Council will host a special meeting at 5 pm on Wednesday to discuss a communication from the City Manager - Action Item #6138/23 – RE: Award of Bid # 23-032 – Road Improvement Program 2023 (w/accompanying resolution)- continued from March 22, 2023. At 5:30 pm, City Council will host a workshop in the Council Chambers on the Transportation Master Plan.
🚧 Reminder: On Thursday night, RIDOT will open a new intersection at the Pell Bridge Ramps Project that will reconnect two sections of JT Connell Highway that were bisected more than 50 years ago with the construction of the original ramp system. The new intersection is where JT Connell Highway meets the JT Connell Connector Road, which opened last year.
The new intersection will offer a more direct connection between Downtown Newport and the city’s North End, according to RIDOT. Read More
What’s Up Today
☀️ Weather
Today: A chance of rain before 10 am, then rain likely with areas of drizzle between 10 am and 1 pm, then showers likely with areas of drizzle after 1 pm. Patchy fog after 1 pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 45. North wind around 7 mph. The chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts to less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tonight: A slight chance of showers before 11 pm. Patchy fog before 7 pm. Otherwise, it will become cloudy, then gradually become partly cloudy, with a low of around 34. Northwest wind 3 to 7 mph. The chance of precipitation is 20%.
🛥️ Marine Forecast
Today: NNE wind around 6 kt, becoming NNW in the afternoon. Rain is likely before 2 pm, then areas of drizzle between 2 pm and 4 pm, then a chance of rain after 4 pm. Patchy fog after 1 pm. Seas 1 ft or less.
Tonight: Variable winds less than 5 kt becoming N around 6 kt after midnight. A slight chance of showers before 11 pm. Patchy fog before 7 pm. Seas 1 ft or less.
Coastal Water Temperature: 41°F.
🌊 Sun, Moon, & Tide
Sunrise: 6:34 am | Sunset: 7:05 pm | 12 hours and 30 minutes of sun.
High tide at 1:33 am & 2:01 pm | Low tide at 7:14 am & 6:47 pm.
Moon: Waxing Crescent. 6.5 days, 40% lighting.
🎭 Things To Do
12 pm to 2 pm: St. Mary’s Church Open
For more events and things to do, visit our events calendar.
🎶 Entertainment
Fifth Element: Randy Robbins from 7 pm to 10 pm
JPT Film & Event Center: Close at 4:30 pm, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lodger with live score by Jeff Rapsis at 7:30 pm
Narragansett Cafe: Trivia from 7 pm to 9 pm
🏛️ City & Government
Jamestown: Jamestown Zoning Board of Review at 7 pm
Middletown: Middletown Planning Board at 3:15 pm, Middletown Zoning Board of Review at 6 pm
Newport: Newport Cliff Walk Commission at 4:30 pm, Newport School Committee at 5:30 pm, Newport Zoning Board of Review at 6 pm, Newport Tree Commission at 6 pm
Portsmouth: Portsmouth School Committee at 7 pm, Portsmouth Dog Park Operating Committee at 11 pm
See the agendas and a full list of public meetings across Rhode Island here.
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WUN-ON-ONE: A conversation with Heather Hole Strout, Executive Director of the MLK Center
Coming up on Tuesday, March 28, at 11:30 am.
What Sold: 18 Newport County real estate sales, transactions (March 19 – 25)
Here’s a look at what homes changed hands last week in Newport County.
2023 Newport Folk Festival lineup announcements
The Newport Folk Festival began its tradition of a rolling lineup announcement for its 2023 festival on February 2.
What’s Up This Week: March 27 – April 2
Newport Daffodil Days, Newport Night Run, Soak Up The Sun Spring Fundraiser Party, and more.
Further Reading
WLNE: Man charged with DUI after Portsmouth head-on crash
The Washington Post: John F. Kennedy and Jackie's newlywed D.C. house is for sale
WCVB: Pedal your way along Narragansett Bay at this fun Newport, Rhode Island outing
East Bay Times: Portsmouth Police: Driver had multiple bags of crack cocaine
Boston Globe: Gannett’s CEO is getting rich by gutting a newspaper near you
We’ll See You Out There
What’s Up This Week: March 27 – April 2
Newport Daffodil Days, Newport Night Run, Soak Up The Sun Spring Fundraiser Party, and more.
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