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King Park is just one of the stops along Newport's Harbor Walk.
NEWPORT, R.I. – If you take pride in Newport’s waterfront or feel a connection to our coastline, then you would do well to take a few minutes and attend a pair of upcoming events.
The first is on Thursday at 7 p.m. when Friends of the Waterfront hosts their annual meeting at the Newport Public Library.
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MIDDLETOWN, R.I. – The Newport Harbor Guide, the indisposable annual maritime publication produced to benefit the Seamen’s Church Institute, will make its debut this week at the grand opening celebration of West Marine’s new flagship store on West Main Road in Middletown.
Scheduled for Thursday, June 10 from 6-9 p.m., “Cruising for a Cause” will double as the grand opening of the new store as well as a fund-raiser for several local marine-related organizations.
Tickets cost $10 and are on sale at the following locations, which will also be the evening’s proceeds recipients:
Sail Newport
The Herreshoff Musuem
America’s Cup Hall of Fame
Seamen’s Church Institute
The Oliver Hazard Perry, Rhode Islands Tall Ship.
The evening will feature live steel-drum music by Island Breeze Trio, food, drinks, fun activities, auctions and great deals on merchandise in the store, located at 379 West Main Rd. (the former Office Depot location).
The best part? Attendees will receive a complimentary copy of the Harbor Guide – which might itself just be reason enough to go. If you can’t make it, look for the Harbor Guide on sale at ports of call from yacht clubs to marinas around the city and across the island.
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The Defense Department's experimental Stiletto will be among the vessels to be docked at the Newport Yachting Center next week.
NEWPORT, R.I. – The M80 Stiletto, one of the world’s most advanced experimental naval ships, is scheduled to be docked in Newport next week as part of the third OceanTech Expo at the Newport Yachting Center.
Sponsored in part by the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC), OceanTech Expo will feature sessions on the marine-technology industry and spotlight Rhode Island’s continuing leadership role in these fields.
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NEWPORT, R.I.– The organization behind efforts to bring a tall ship for the state has secured the partnership of one of the state’s most prominent civic groups.
Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island (OHPRI) announced yesterday that it has added its first civic group — the Newport Navy League of the United States — to the Oliver Hazard Perry’s growing list of supporters. Until now, the non-profit organization has relied mostly on trade groups, individuals in the private sector, corporations, charitable trusts and educational institutions to help it achieve critical mass in the development of Rhode Island’s Education at Sea tall ship, and it is hoping that other local chapters of national organizations will follow the Navy League’s lead.
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NEWPORT, R.I. – Responding to a letter written by the director of the National Parks Service expressing concern over the impact that a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal would have on the Taunton River, Weaver’s Cove Energy LLC today reiterated its commitment to ensuring the environmental health of the bay and its tributaries in its design for the facility.
“Weaver’s Cove Energy intends to continue to pursue the permitting and review of our project which has been modified to comply with the March 2009 designation of the Taunton River as Wild and Scenic under Federal law,” a Weaver’s Cove spokesman wrote in an e-mail to Newport Now.
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Bowen's Wharf is just one leg of Newport's downtown Habor Walk. (File photo)
NEWPORT, R.I. – The weather of late has been simply spectacular, and we’ve seen more than one NN reader enjoying a leisurely stroll along the city’s famed harbor over the last few weeks.
But did you know the city has a public harbor walk?
In an ongoing effort to raise awareness for the path, the public is invited to attend an open meeting on Thursday, May 20 at the Newport Public Library, to provide input on early design concepts and ideas aimed at enhancing the Newport Harbor Walk.
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Save the Bay's Jonathan Stone (Left) and NBCVB CEO Evan Smith (Far Right), squared off against Weaver's Cove CEO Gordon Shearer (Right) during a public forum sponsored by the Alliance for a Livable Newport. (Photo by Tom Shevlin)
NEWPORT, R.I. – One of the city’s most active community groups has come out in opposition to a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Mount Hope Bay.
In a position paper issued on Thursday, the Alliance for a Livable Newport (ALN) has ruled that the proposed facility would be “detrimental to the quality of life in Newport and nearby communities.”
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Aquidneck Ferry & Charter, Inc. hopes to use a 1953 wooden packet boat as a hop-on, hop-off ferry in and around Newport harbor this season. The state PUC has yet to rule on that proposal.
NEWPORT, R.I. – The owner of Aquidneck Ferry & Charter, Inc., which is currently seeking approval to operate a “hop-on, hop-off” harbor shuttle, has secured approval from the state’s Division of Public Utilities to run one its tour boats as a tender for cruise ship passengers to and from the city’s downtown Perrotti Park facility.
In an April 26 decision (separate to another application for the proposed harbor shuttle), the Division granted Aquidneck Ferry & Charter a Certificate of Public Conveyance and Necessity (CPCN) to act as a tender for cruise ships on a per-hire basis.
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Plans to transform the USS Saratoga into a marine museum (seen here in an artist's rendering) have been scrapped in favor a new plan to bring the USS JFK to Aquidneck Island.
NEWPORT, R.I. – The group leading an effort to transform the aging USS Saratoga into a marine museum has shifted its focus to a new mission, after the Navy determined that the Sara would no longer be available for donation.
In what organizers are describing as a “new direction” for the aircraft carrier project, the USS Saratoga Museum Foundation has announced plans to acquire the USS John F. Kennedy and bring her to a yet-to-be-determined location on Aquidneck Island.
“The USS Saratoga is no longer available for donation, but a new opportunity has opened up,” the museum said in a written statement.
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NEWPORT, R.I. – There’s a new kind of boat show coming to town.
The Newport Harbor Corporation (NHC) – the producer of the Newport International Boat Show – has announced the debut of the Newport Yacht & Lifestyle Collection, a superyacht boat show geared toward the well-heeled yacht owner.
The dates of this inaugural – and re-invented – way to promote superyachts and the rich array of opulent products that owners and their families and friends enjoy. Slated for 16-19 June 2011, this new event will bookend the boating season along with the popular fall International Boat Show.
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Three boats were visibly damaged by a fire on Lower Thames Street Friday. (Photos by Tom Shevlin)
NEWPORT, R.I. – Fire broke out just after 5 p.m. on Waites Wharf on Friday, damaging three recreational watercraft and destroying another only weeks away from the summer boating season. No injuries were reported in the fire, which may have been caused while one of the boats was undergoing routine seasonal maintenance.
Crews from the Newport Fire Department responded to Waites Wharf Friday in response to a three-boat fire.
One eyewitness said that she saw the flames jump from one boat to a second roughly 45 seconds after first noticing the smoke. Crews from the Newport Fire Department arrived on scene shortly thereafter, dousing out the fire within only a few minutes.
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NEWPORT, R.I. – As the state continues to suffer from woeful unemployment and a stagnant economic climate, the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIDEC) is hoping that an investment into a private marina and yacht club village complex will provide a much needed shot in the arm and spur lasting job growth in the state’s marine trades industry.
In a Feb. 18 letter to the state’s Congressional delegation, RIEDC Executive Director Keith Stokes has requested a FY2011 federal appropriation in the amount of $9.5 million that will be used to enhance public access to the shoreline at Weaver Cove in Portsmouth. Among the improvement being eyed: The installation of a boardwalk, parking, and the improvement of public boat ramps.
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Plans are underway to bring a 1953 wooden packet boat to Newport as a harbor shuttle. (Photo courtesy Aquidneck Ferry & Charter LLC)
NEWPORT, R.I. – A proposal to introduce a “hop-on, hop-off” ferry service to Newport Harbor that has drawn strong opposition from a variety of marine industry concerns will receive its final hearing later this month, after which the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is expected to make a final decision regarding the plan.
According to Thomas Kogut, chief of information for the PUC, final arguments on the application filed by Aquidneck Ferry & Charter, LLC have been scheduled for 10 a.m. on Friday, April 30. Outside public comment will also be entertained.
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NEWPORT – Did you know Newport has a harbor walk? Well, we do, and it’s one of the city’s unsung treasures-in-the-making.
For years only envisioned, these days, more and more people are on to the trail thanks to the efforts of Newport’s Friends of the Waterfront and the URI Coastal Resource Center/RI Sea Grant program.
Stemming from a 2007 planning charrette, which identified public access to the water as a top priority, the harbor walk seeks to connect visitors and residents to the water on a contiguous trail of public access points stretching from The Point to King Park. In 2008, Friends of the Waterfront began working to install signs to point the way, and pretty soon, the trail began to catch on.
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