Year: 2024

Through the committed actions of Rhode Islanders, Narragansett Bay is cleaner and healthier today than it was in 1975. But as we turn the corner to 2025, Narragansett Bay faces persistent challenges that threaten a swimmable, fishable Bay accessible to all. Save The Bay urges Rhode Islanders to support three initiatives in the coming year … Read More

Pull out your bucket list, add some of the best things to do in Rhode Island in 2025, and make it your most memorable year yet. I’ve never been one to make resolutions at the dawn of a New Year, usually because I find it difficult to keep the momentum going, especially when life is … Read More

BRISTOL, R.I. — Despite local concerns about the proposed development’s potential to exacerbate neighborhood flooding and the damage it will cause to wetland habitat, a Gooding Avenue hotel project that has been hanging around since 2013 recently received state approval to move ahead. In a Dec. 6 letter to the developer, Middletown-based KenDan LLC, the state Department of … Read More

A subcommittee of the Coastal Resources Management Council has rejected a petition from Quidnessett Country Club to reclassify waters near its golf course, a change that would allow a seawall where the club has already put one up illegally. Here’s what you need to know. State coastal regulators had some bad news this week for … Read More

Two weeks after Save the Bay issued a letter blasting the RI Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) for deciding to postpone the Policies and Procedures Subcommittee’s hearing for the second month in a row regarding the proposed water type downgrade alongside Quidnessett Country Club, a move that the group said further delays the removal of … Read More

A Coastal Resources Management Council subcommittee voted against a Quidnessett Country Club petition to reclassify waters at a seawall it built without permission near its golf course. PROVIDENCE — Environmental groups are praising a recommendation that the Coastal Resources Management Council reject a petition to reclassify waters at the seawall that a North Kingstown country … Read More

Recommendation Tuesday advances proposed water reclassification to full council for final decision. Historical photographs, topographical maps and two hours of expert testimony Tuesday afternoon weren’t enough to convince a panel of state regulators to ease development restrictions along the shoreline of a North Kingstown country club. A subcommittee of the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management … Read More