The authority charged with maintaining the Claiborne Pell Bridge has announced plans to issue $50 million in bonds to pay for planned maintenance and repairs.
NEWPORT, R.I. – The Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority (RITBA) has announced plans to issue $50 million of toll revenue bonds during the week of March 29. According to David Darlington, chairman of RITBA, the bonds are needed to pay for part of the maintenance and repair needs of the Newport Pell and Mount Hope bridges.
“The Newport Pell and Mount Hope Bridges are beautiful icons of the state and people can now have the opportunity to personally invest in the upkeep of these bridges and ensure their safety for the next generation,” Darlington said in a statement on Thursday. [click to continue…]
NEWPORT, R.I. – Just in time to say goodbye to those winter blues, the Newport and Bristol County Visitors and Convention Bureau’s Spring Restaurant Week kicks off next week.
In the run-up to the gastronomic celebration, we’ll be featuring a series of videos, previews, and our personal picks for where to spend your hard-earned dollar. First up is Washington Square landmark Yesterday’s and The Place, where Chef Alex Daglis recently took us through one of his signature Restaurant Week dishes.
If you’re interested in having your restaurant profiled, e-mail Kirby@NewportThisWeek.net, or Advertising@Newport-Now.com. Also, be sure to look for our upcoming coverage in next Wednesday’s edition of Newport This Week.
Newport and Bristol Restaurant Week begins March 19 and runs until March 28. Visit www.GoNewportRestaurantWeek.com for more details and a full list of participating establishments.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Rhode Island continues to suffer from one of the highest joblessness rates in the country, the United States Senate has passed an amendment authored by U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) that will provide a better understanding of ways to improve the local economy.
WARWICK, R.I. – A 42-year-old Newport man was killed in a single car accident on Airport Connector Road Tuesday night, according to state police.
The man, who has not been identified, was reportedly on his way to the airport when he lost control of his car at around 11:41 p.m. He was taken to Rhode Island Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:07 a.m.
NEWPORT, R.I. – Newport This Week is locally-owned, again! The company that purchased Newport’s free, weekly newspaper from Lisette Prince in 2004, Phoenix-Times Publishing Co., owners of the East Bay Newspapers chain, has sold its interest in NTW to two local journalists and former employees, Lynne Tungett and Tom Shevlin.
Members of the city's Irish community are outraged over several T-shirts being sold at venerable neighborhood shop Jake's Life is Good. (Photo by Tom Shevlin)
NEWPORT, R.I. – Thames Street retailer Jake’s Life is Good is facing fire from members of the city’s Irish community over what some claim are offensive and denigrating T-shirts being sold in the run up to the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Carrying signs that read “Music Box Do Not Denigrate The Irish” and “Music Box Is Not Irish Friendly”, about a dozen members of the Ancient Order of Hibernians held a silent protest on Saturday to draw attention to the family-owned Music Box and Jake’s Life is Good for perpetuating what they claim is a false stereotype and sending the wrong message to the thousands of visitors who descend onto Newport for the annual parade.
NEWPORT, R.I. – State Rep. Peter Martin (D-Newport) is making news this week by co-sponsoring a bill that would ease the penalty for teenagers who engage in “sexting,” a general term referring to the distribution of explicit images or videos via cell phone.
According to Martin, who took up a request by the Attorney General’s Office to introduce the legislation, most times teenagers simply aren’t aware of the ramifications of their actions.
“This takes what I consider to be bad behavior, or stupid behavior for these teenagers who are sending these pictures around, and instead of making it a crime with a record as a sex offender, it redirects them into counseling,” Martin told ABC6 News on Monday.
Under current state law, teens who are caught sending explicit photos or videos can be charged for distributing child pornography, an offense that carries with it a $5,000 fine, up to 5 years in jail, and a lifetime sex offender label.
And while some judges do practice discretion in their rulings, proponents say that this bill is needed to address what is an increasingly common problem.
John McEnroe, Donald Dell, Owen Davidson, Bud Collins, Brad Parks, Virginia Wade, Gigi Fernandez, Ivan Lendl and Tony Trabert.
NEWPORT, R.I. – At the BNP Paribas Showdown for the Billie Jean King Cup at New York’s Madison Square Garden last night, the International Tennis Hall of Fame Class of 2010 was announced to the delight of more than 12,000 fans.
Doubles stars dominate the Recent Player and Master Player categories, with the selections of Todd Woodbridge, Mark Woodforde, Gigi Fernandez, Natasha Zvereva and Owen Davidson. In the Contributor category, wheelchair tennis creator Brad Parks has been selected for induction, as well as Derek Hardwick, who served as chairman of the British Lawn Tennis Association and was instrumental in the creation of Open tennis. International Tennis Hall of Fame Chairman Christopher Clouser hosted the ceremony, which featured Hall of Famers John McEnroe, Bud Collins, Virginia Wade, Donald Dell, Ivan Lendl and Tony Trabert, all of whom welcomed the latest inductees who have been selected to receive the highest honor available in the sport.
The induction ceremony will take place July 10, 2010 prior to the semi-final matches of the Campbell’s Hall of Fame Championships at the International Tennis Hall of Fame on Bellevue Avenue.
NEWPORT, R.I. – Newport stands to see a 15.3 percent reduction in school aid under a proposed statewide education funding formula released earlier today.
The long-awaited formula, which is aimed at providing state and local officials with a quantitative basis for distributing funds to school districts based on enrollment and other contributing factors, was developed by the state Department of Education in cooperation with Brown University. Currently, legislators base financial aid by previous years’ precedents with no regard for enrollment or, for that matter, any other metric.
NEWPORT, R.I. – The red flag was flying early Friday morning outside of the Wellington Avenue CSO facility, signaling the city’s latest active combined sewer overflow event.
The red flag flying above the Wellington Avenue pump station signals that a CSO event has occured. (Photo by Tom Shevlin)
According to the city’s website, both of its CSO outfall locations were active on Friday, the result of a powerful winter storm that dumped over an inch and a half of rain on the area.
Angela Moore and Carroll Michael & Co., both longtime tenants of this block on Bellevue, have relocated in recent weeks.
NEWPORT, R.I. – The newly relocated Angela Moore boutique opens this weekend at 190 Bellevue Avenue on Newport’s Casino Block; a location owner Moore describes as historic, beautiful and a privilege to be a part of.
Designed by the celebrated architects McKim, Mead and White, the Newport Casino, at the epicenter of the strip, opened in 1880 and today is a National Historic Landmark. Since it’s opening, storefronts have been part and parcel of the famed block and are considered highly desired retail locations. While Moore’s addition leaves all but one retail vacancy on that particular eastern stretch of Bellevue Avenue, between Memorial Boulevard and Jones Avenue, other parts of Bellevue seem to be having a harder time, both retaining existing and securing new businesses.
The length of Bellevue Avenue, just north of the casino block, between John and Prospect Hill Streets, has seen considerable turnover and extended vacancies through the years and, perhaps, never more apparently, than in recent months. Carroll Michael & Co., formerly at the corner of Prospect Hill Street at 115 Bellevue Avenue, moved to a new space on Franklin Street, and is now vacant.
A liquefied natural gas tanker arrives in Boston, Mass.
NEWPORT, R.I. – The developer of a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal in Mount Hope Bay has fired back at Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, who earlier this week made headlines by warning that the project could put an end to the state’s quest to return the America’s Cup to Newport.
Labeling the recent claims made by the Attorney General as baseless and “wildly” speculative, Weaver’s Cove Energy, LLC has reiterated its commitment to conducting LNG shipping activities so as to avoid interfering with any America’s Cup race activities, or any other organized yachting activities in Narragansett Bay.
“Attorney General Lynch’s comments are the latest in a long history of misstatements he has made related to the Weaver’s Cove’s LNG Project,” the company said in a statement released through its online advocacy portal, LNGFactCheck.com.
But according to LNG opponents and Cup organizers, who quickly lined up to defend Lynch’s remarks, the presence of an LNG facility up-bay from the historical America’s Cup racing grounds in Rhode Island Sound, could indeed represent a major obstacle in the chase for the cup.
Former U.S. Rep. Robert Weygand will not run for Congress in the 1st District.
NEWPORT, R.I. – Former Democrat U.S. Congressman Robert Weygand, who had indicated earlier this month he was seriously considering a run for the 1st Congressional District currently occupied by Patrick J. Kennedy, will not be a candidate in November, he said today.
In a statement issued Thursday, Weygand, who doesn’t currently live in the district, said that after giving it serious thought, he and his family decided now was not the right time to re-enter the political arena.
NEWPORT, R.I. – It wasn’t your typical start to a City Council meeting. But on Wednesday, the Dennis E. Collins division of the Ancient Order of Hibernians paid a special visit to City Hall to kick off the annual Irish Heritage Month.
The month long celebration of all things Irish formally gets under way at noon on Sunday, Feb. 28 at Forty Steps with traditional Irish step dancing and live traditional music. Afterward, head down to the Hibernian Hall on Wellington Avenue for a free Afternoon Social at 1 p.m.
A full line up of events for Irish Heritage Month can be found online at AOHNewport.org or on our calendar beginning Friday, Feb. 26.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Rhode Island continues to suffer from one of the highest joblessness rates in the country, the United States Senate has passed an amendment authored by U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) that will provide a better understanding of ways to improve the local economy.
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