Rise & Shine! Your Newport County guide for July 27
Rise & Shine! I’m Scott Barrett, managing editor for The Daily News, and today is July 27, the 208th day of the year — 157 days remain in 2022. On this day in 1949, the world’s first jet-propelled airliner, the British De Havilland Comet, made its maiden test-flight in England, ultimately revolutionizing the airline industry.
Here & Now
• The Newport City Council will meet tonight, and there are some items of interest on the docket. The first involves pickleball, which continues to cause a racket — get it? — for people who live near the courts. So the city is looking to take further steps to curb the noise. Read my story here.
The second interesting item has to do with a public right-of-way the local advocacy group Friends of the Waterfront feels could be infringed upon by the plans of a local restaurant. Read more from reporter Savana Dunning here. You can find the full agenda below.
• Highlighted by the sale of a property in Portsmouth for nearly $4.4 million, find the latest home sales and property transactions in Newport County here.
• Joni Mitchell's return to the Newport Folk Festival this past weekend has been all the buzz, and Providence Journal columnist Mark Patinkin has a few things to say about it.
"Some might say that Joni of course wasn’t what she was, but I’m sure that was not her goal in her return to the stage," he writes. Read his column here.
• So life got a little hectic and you couldn't attend this week's forums on school regionalization in Newport and Middletown. No sweat. Newport Public Schools on Tuesday morning published a recap of what was discussed. Read it here.
• From the inbox: Speaking of education, according to a recent study, the Providence-Warwick area ranks 91st on a list of most educated cities in the U.S. Ann Arbor, Michigan, tops the list, which you check out here.
• Gov. Dan McKee will be in Newport tonight to take part in the Newport Gulls' pregame festivities on Mark Weed Scholarship Fund Legacy Night. First pitch is scheduled for 6:35 p.m.
• If you're willing to travel over a bridge, the Herreshoff Museum in Bristol is hosting 11th Hour Racing skipper Charlie Enright for a free event tonight at 5:30 p.m. You can meet members of the crew and check out the boat. Learn more here.
• I pour about an hour and a half into this newsletter each day because I want to keep you informed about what's happening in our community. I like to puzzle you with trivia questions and I enjoy exploring all corners of the county to see if you can guess where I am.
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Born today
Taylor Schilling (actress), 38
Alex Rodriguez (athlete), 47
Maya Rudolph (actress), 50
Bobby Gentry (singer), 80
Weather report
Low tides: 1:30 a.m., 12:54 p.m.
High tides: 7:49 a.m., 8:08 p.m.
Sunrise: 5:33 a.m. Sunset: 8:09 a.m.
Water temperature: 72.3 degrees.
Municipal meetings
Newport
City Council, 6:30 p.m.
Middletown
Technical Review Committee, 9 a.m.
Little Compton
Conservation Commission, 7 p.m.
Local obituaries
Today is …
Bagpipe Appreciation Day
Chicken Finger Day
Walk on Stilts Day
Trivia answer
Q: Head of the Newport Recreation Department for 26 years, this man was better known for his knowledge of area sports — especially baseball — and wrote about them often, right up until his death in 1991. Who was he?
A: George Donnelly. He penned a "Sports in the News" column for this publication for decades, and the local Sunset League bears his name. Kudos to Chris La Rose, Len Panaggio, Patrick O'Connell, M. Francis Ferri and Mike Pinto, all of whom answered correctly.
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This article originally appeared on Newport Daily News: Rise & Shine! Your Newport County guide for July 27, 2022
