Rise & Shine! Your Newport County guide for June 30
Rise & Shine! I’m Scott Barrett, managing editor for The Daily News, and today is June 30, the 181st day of the year — 184 days remain in 2022. On this day in 1936, the book Gone With the Wind, written by former newspaper reporter Margaret Mitchell and the basis for the famed film, was published. To date, more than 30 million copies have been printed worldwide.
Here & Now
• The Portsmouth Town Council earlier this month approved a one-year pilot program to install Flock Safety cameras on either side of the Mount Hope Bridge with the intention of preventing suicide deaths. But the town could reverse course after hearing concerns.
Reporter Zane Wolfang, who touched on this subject previously, digs even deeper, talking to a family member of a bridge suicide victim, advocates pushing for bridge barriers, the organizations that funded the camera program and a representative from the Flock Safety, who said it's very rare for these cameras to be used in bridge suicide prevention.
This is a tremendous piece of journalism and worth your time. Read it here.
• The company that wants to put an expanded gas station and Seasons Market on the lot where Bishop's 4th Street Diner sits now cleared a hurdle earlier this week. Reporter Savana Dunning has the story.
• The annual fireworks display at Escobar Farm in Portsmouth scheduled for the Fourth of July has been called off. Farm owner Jane Esocbar explained to The Daily News the reasoning and said the event could be held at a later date. Read more here.
• Speaking of fireworks, the Little Compton Fireworks Committee is expected to meet this morning. Find the full agenda below.
• All this chatter about fireworks gives me an opportunity to post one of my favorite photos of the kiddos, taken last year at Escobar Farm by my lovely and talented wife Olivia.
• Who were the most valuable players on Newport County high school baseball teams this past spring? Find out here.
• Editor Will Richmond has put together his list of things to do this weekend — the Independence Day edition. Check it out here.
• A 28-year-old local man died after crashing his moped at the rotary that connects JT Connell Highway and Admiral Kalbfus Road. Read more here.
• Daily News food columnist Dan Lederer writes this week that while we amateurs are hovering over our backyard grills this holiday weekend, let's tip our caps to the professionals inside our local restaurants. It's no easy job. Read his column here.
• A Newport condominium has been selected as a finalist in the "HGTV Ultimate House Hunt 2022" contest. Read more here.
• Phillip James Dodd, author of An American Renaissance: Beaux-Arts Architecture in New York City, will appear at Charter Books in Newport tonight at 6 p.m. Learn more here.
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Born today
Michael Phelps (athlete), 37
Lizzy Caplan (actress), 40
Monica Potter (actress), 51
Mike Tyson (athlete), 56
Weather report
Low tides: 3:10 a.m., 2:42 p.m.
High tides: 9:32 a.m., 9:43 p.m.
Sunrise: 5:13 a.m. Sunset: 8:24 p.m.
Water temperature: 67.6 degrees
Municipal meetings
Middletown
Tree Commission, 4 p.m.
Out-Reach Subcommittee, 5:30 p.m.
Jamestown
School Committee, 6:30 p.m.
Tiverton
Recreation Commission, 6 p.m.
Little Compton
Fireworks Committee, 9 a.m.
Local obituaries
Today is …
National Work From Home Day
National Corvette Day
National Handshake Day
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This article originally appeared on Newport Daily News: Rise & Shine! Your Newport County guide for June 30
