Gordy Johnson Scholarship Awarded



Jennifer Rivera, the 2015 Boys & Girls Club of Newport County’s Youth of the Year, was awarded the Gordon Johnson Memorial Scholarship of $1,000 for pursuit of her college education and hopes to pursue a computer science degree. She is currently a senior at Rogers High School, a member of the National Honor Society and is part of the ROTC. […]

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New Director Acknowledged



Brenda Nienhouse, executive director of the Newport Opera House Theater and Performing Arts Center was one of 16 named statewide from politicians and business leaders, to decision makers and even the Providence College basketball team, as people or entities which have been identified as those “who are getting attention for what they do, and for a number of reasons” by […]

West Begins Series



Darrell West, a former Brown University professor and author of 20 books, will kick off the Newport Art Museum’s 88th annual Winter Speaker Series on Saturday, Jan. 9, at 2 p.m. in the museum’s Griswold House. In keeping with tradition, West, current vice president and director of governance studies at the Brookings Institution, will kick off the series. This year, […]

Tree Collection



In Newport and Middletown, holiday trees will be collected curbside during the week of Jan. 11 on residents’ regularly scheduled collection day. Do not put holiday trees in plastic bags and remember to remove all ornaments, tinsel, garland and lights. In Newport, yard waste will also be collected during that week along with trees. Yard waste must be free of […]

An Ode to 2015

Inspired by an old newspaper tradition, our stalwart feature writer pens a tribute to the tumultuous year that has just passed.

Let us lift up our glass, filled with holiday cheer, To the winners, the losers, the events of the year; What was hot, what was not; the Tweet, the dope,From The Breakers to a new Newport city manager? Nope!From casinos going to Tiverton to a welcome center coming in,From the Volvo Ocean Race to fish tourneys for the prized shark […]

EDITORIAL

What’s the Good Word?

A s proprietors of a newspaper, we make our living with words. Not to diminish the importance of newspaper photographs, but there would be much less reason to have newspapers at all if there were no words to print. A picture is worth a thousand words? It would have to be one heck of a photo. Mindful of the value […]

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR



Real Action Needed at St. George’s To the Editor: Let me open this open letter by commending St. George’s Headmaster Eric Peterson for being an effective and well-liked headmaster at one of the premier boarding schools in the country. Talent and popularity, however, no matter how great, is not a shield from accountability for violations of trust and lack of […]

Rogers Wins Funding for Early College Program



Newport was recently named as one of three school districts in Rhode Island that will participate in the state’s new Pathways in Technology Early College High School Program (P-TECH). On Monday, Dec. 21, Gov. Gina Raimondo and the Rhode Island Commerce Corp. announced that the Newport, Providence, and Westerly school districts will each receive a $200,000 grant to implement P-TECH’s […]