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Registration opens for Save The Bay’s BayCamps

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Save The Bay opens registration for statewide BayCamps Registration for Rhode Island’s only week-long, Narragansett Bay-based summer camp opens today – Tuesday, January 7! Save The Bay’s BayCamps invite young explorers in grades K-12 to spend their summer along Rhode Island’s coast, learning about local waters, species, and habitats while taking an educational dive into … Read More

Save The Bay opens registration for statewide BayCamps Registration for Rhode Island’s only week-long, Narragansett Bay-based summer camp opens today – Tuesday, January 7! Save The Bay’s BayCamps invite young... ...Read More

Get to Know Our Local Waters at Save The Bay’s Hamilton Family Aquarium

Monday, January 6, 2025

The multifaceted Newport attraction is now open Thursday through Monday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. When you visit Save The Bay’s Hamilton Family Aquarium, you embark on a journey through the fascinating and diverse habitats of Narragansett Bay–home to a unique group of animals and plants that have evolved to survive perfectly under a … Read More

The multifaceted Newport attraction is now open Thursday through Monday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. When you visit Save The Bay’s Hamilton Family Aquarium, you embark on a journey... ...Read More

CRMC Council Loses Member to Resignation, Reducing Coastal Decision-Making Body to 6

Monday, January 6, 2025

PROVIDENCE — The state’s coastal regulating agency is already starting the new year on the wrong foot. The Coastal Resources Management Council quietly announced last month that longtime council member and Little Compton resident Donald Gomez was resigning. Gomez, who prior to his professional retirement worked as an electric engineer for the Navy in Newport, … Read More

PROVIDENCE — The state’s coastal regulating agency is already starting the new year on the wrong foot. The Coastal Resources Management Council quietly announced last month that longtime council member... ...Read More

Things to do this weekend in Newport County: Jan. 3 – 5

Saturday, January 4, 2025

Newport Seal Tours, Live improv with The Bit Players, Aquidneck Growers Market, Guded Sea-Bird Walk, and more. Discover all that’s happening, new, and to do in and around Newport County, Rhode Island, this weekend, Friday, January 3 – 5, 2025. Friday, January 3 Things To Do 10 am: Baby Playtime at Newport Public Library 10 am: Beneath The … Read More

Newport Seal Tours, Live improv with The Bit Players, Aquidneck Growers Market, Guded Sea-Bird Walk, and more. Discover all that’s happening, new, and to do in and around Newport County,... ...Read More

Time for Vibrant Greens to Replace Some Drab Black and Grays

Thursday, January 2, 2025

The depave movement, at least in some places, is gaining momentum, but not in Rhode Island, where we like to smother the natural world under widened highways, oversized homes, solar panels, and parking lots. This rabid obsession is on full display on Moshassuck Street in Pawtucket, where developers and local officials want to turn the … Read More

The depave movement, at least in some places, is gaining momentum, but not in Rhode Island, where we like to smother the natural world under widened highways, oversized homes, solar... ...Read More

3 ways to help Save The Bay in 2025

Tuesday, December 31, 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

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... ...Read More

25 Things I Can’t Wait to Do in Rhode Island in 2025

Sunday, December 29, 2024

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

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... ...Read More

Concerns About Increased Flooding, Habitat Destruction Swirl Around Bristol Hotel Project

Monday, December 16, 2024

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

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... ...Read More

Country club wants mulligan on seawall, but controversial proposal could be stuck in the rough

Friday, December 13, 2024

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

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... ...Read More

Full story of the bridge is yet to be told.

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Wednesday, Dec. 11, marked the one-year anniversary of the abrupt emergency closing of the westbound Washington Bridge, a crisis whose full effect will take years to sort out. Gov. Dan McKee and RIDOT Director Peter Alviti can always fall back on how a potential tragedy was averted and no lives were lost. However, even with a relatively fast response … Read More

Wednesday, Dec. 11, marked the one-year anniversary of the abrupt emergency closing of the westbound Washington Bridge, a crisis whose full effect will take years to sort out. Gov. Dan McKee and... ...Read More