Rise & Shine! Your Newport County guide for June 28
Rise & Shine! I’m Scott Barrett, managing editor for The Daily News, and today is June 28, the 179th day of the year — 186 days remain in 2022. On this day 2007, the bald eagle was removed from the United States’ list of endangered species after numbers had dwindled to roughly 1,000 in the 1950s. Today, there are more than 300,000 in the lower 48 states.
Here & Now
• Zoe Butler was raised in Portsmouth, and now she's trying to make it big in Nashville in the music business. Her latest song, titled "Old New England Town by the Sea" is a tip of the cap to Newport. You can read more about Butler and give her tune a listen here.
• Speaking of music, The Daily News has a new columnist in Gillian Friedman Fox, executive director of Newport Classical. In her debut piece for the newspaper, she details the slate of performances scheduled to begin Friday. Check it out here.
• Newport Police are investigating an incident caught on video in which an officer in uniform appears to aggressively shove a man on Thames Street before striking another man in the face. Read my story here.
• Sports reporter Steve Rogers continues with his postseason coverage with high school girls lacrosse team MVPs. Find out who they are here.
• A second member of the Portsmouth Town Council is looking to fill the soon-to-be empty state Senate seat currently held by James Seveney. Andrew Kelly announced his candidacy on Monday. Read more here.
• Speaking of elections, it was busy first day Monday for candidate filings. Coming up this morning on NewportRI.com, we'll have lists of hopefuls running for elected office in local communities, and we'll update it until the filing period ends late Wednesday.
• The Cliff Walk Commission is scheduled to meet today at 4:30 p.m. at the Newport Public Library, and among the items on the agenda, which you can find below, is an "engineering update."
• The Middletown Zoning Board of Review is scheduled to meet tonight, and from what I've been told, a date for a special meeting regarding the years-long Wave Avenue hotel project is expected to be set. Find the full agenda below.
• We all know Cardines Field is a special place, but is it the best summer collegiate ballpark in the United States? The Newport Gulls and 31 other teams are in the second round of an online contest to determine that. You can vote here, and it's super simple — just find your team and click it. I did it this morning.
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Born today
Elon Musk (businessman), 51
John Cusack (actor), 56
John Elway (athlete), 62
Kathy Bates (actress), 74
Mel Brooks (filmmaker), 96
Weather report
Low tides: 1:50 a.m., 1:11 p.m.
High tides: 8:14 a.m., 8:31 p.m.
Sunrise: 5:12 a.m. Sunset: 8:24 p.m.
Water temperature: 65.9 degrees.
Municipal meetings
Newport
Discover Newport, 9 a.m.
Cliff Walk Commission, 4:30 p.m.
Middletown
Zoning Board of Review, 6 p.m.
Tiverton
Solar Ordinance Advisory Committee, 6:30 p.m.
School Committee, 7 p.m.
Jamestown
Zoning Board of Review, 7 p.m.
Little Compton
Beach Commission, 7 p.m.
Local obituaries
None new today
Today is …
National Paul Bunyan Day
National Logistics Day
National Insurance Awareness Day
Trivia Tuesday
A 6-foot-3 guard for the Boston Celtics, this one-time NBA player became co-owner of a Newport bar associated not with basketball, but baseball. What is his name? Send guesses to sbarrett@newportri.com.
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