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Newport-Middletown Regionalization Effort

Regionalization Information

 

North Skate Park

Friends of Newport Skatepark

 

North End Urban Plan Passes

Newport This Week article

Lead Paint Resolution

Newport This Week article

Supported Vernon Tennis Court Fence Restoration

Supported Fair Chance Legislation

Newport Daily News article

Supported North End Urban Plan Consultants

Newport Daily News article

Sponsored Marijuana 6 month Moratorium

Newport Daily News article

Supported Bellevue Ave Joint Concrete Repairs

$300,000

Supported repair work at Newport Area Career and Technology Center:

Automotive Concrete Repairs

$18,166

Supported Newport Public Schools –

Boiler Control Systems 

$215,986

Tartan designed by Newport Resident

Newport Daily News article

Council OK's naming gymnasium at

Pell Elementary School for Paul Gaines

Newport Daily News article

North End Urban Planning

Newport This Week article

Rogers High School Building Updates

Newport This Week article

Broadway Street Fair - Year Four!!

Newport This Week - Letter to the Editor


Newport Sister Cities

Newport This Week article

Newport For All Ages

Newport This Week - Letter to the Editor

Food Trucks Rules Approved

Newport This Week article

School Regionalization Discussions

Newport This Week - Guest Editorial

Island Moving Company Performance Center

Newport This Week article

Newport Dog Park

Newport This Week article

Newport Poised to Compete for "Innovation" Dollars

Providence Journal article

Broadway's Holiday Debut Lights up City

Newport This Week article

Gateway Renovation to Begin

Newport This Week article

Christmas Card Contest Winner

Newport This Week article

Technology Tops Agenda at

City Council-School Committee Liaison Meeting

Newport This Week Article

City's Redesigned Website to be Redesigned

Newport Daily News Article

Sheffield Incubator to Break Ground in May

Newport This Week Article

Bag Banishment One Step Closer

Newport This Week Article

Newport City Council Bans Single Use Plastic Bags

Rhode Island Public Radio Article

Newport Adopts Plastic Bag Ban

Newport This Week Article

Three Newport Parks to Close Earlier

Newport This Week Article

City Considers Cigarette Litter Solutions

Newport This Week Article

Newport Adopts Bag Ban

Newport This Week Article

Monument Planned to Honor Black Heritage

Newport This Week Article

Basketball Hoops Go Back Up at Pell School

Newport This Week Article

City Endorses First Open Space Plan in 100 Years

Newport This Week Article

Council Approves Laptop Purchase

Newport This Week Article

Newport City Council Votes to Hire Rental Watchdog

Newport Daily News Article

Newport City Council Approves Plan for Historic Spring

Newport Daily News Article

Newport City Council Approves Former Sheffield School 

Construction Contract

Newport Daily News Article

Edward King House Parking Lot Reviewed for Expansion

Newport This Week Article

Newport Property Owners Offered Flood Insurance Discounts

Newport Daily News Article

Newport City Council Approves Tourism Management District

Newport Daily News Article

Newport City Council OKs Sales Agreement for

Cranston-Calvert School

Newport Daily News Article

Newport City Council Approves Plan for Food Waste Recycling

Newport Daily News Article

Memorial Boulevard Improvement Approved

Newport This Week article

Newport City Council OKs $800,000 to 

Purchase Laptops for Students

Newport Daily News article

Resolution requesting staff and planning board to revise

and enhance zoning and planning access in the

Waterfront Business District (2018-16)

Easton's Beach, Cliff Walk and Parks Smoking Ban

Newport This Week article

 

Salve Regina Shuttle Service

Newport This Week article

 

Sponsored a resolution addressing the need for compliance by commercial bus companies to obey all city ordinances regarding travel on restricted streets and weight restricted streets

Resolution

 

City Clamps Down on Commercial Buses 

Newport This Week article

 

Voted to ratify firefighters and

municipal workers contracts

Newport This Week article

 

Voted to invest in a plan to explore public private partnerships that could potentially result in the realignment of the Newport Bridge ramps making vacant acres available for economic development.  

Newport This Week article

Newport Councilors Take Stock, Newport this Week, January 7, 2016

Newport This Week article

City Council hires City Manager, Joseph Nicholson

Newport This Week article

Newport Daily News article

Voted to transfer funds from the Underwood School sale proceeds to the City Capital Projects Fund for the

Pell School Technology Endowment Fund

Resolution

Co-sponsored resolution to investigate the

banning of disposable plastic bags

Newport This Week article

Bank Newport Financial Literacy Day

Bank Newport

 

Tour of agencies that help the homeless

Newport Daily News article

Re-instituted the Historic Cemetery Commission

Newport This Week article

North End Vision Progresses

Newport This Week article

Sponsored Resoution 2016-19 to establish regular meetings with Broadway Merchants, City Officials and

RI Department of Transportation Officials during the

Broadway Streetscape Construction Project.

Listen:  WADK Podcast - Broadway Streetscape Discussion, June 9, 2016

Broadway construction ahead of schedule

Newport Daily News article

Basketball Court Complaints Prompt Action

Newport This Week article

Newport City Council Accepts Grant for Fire/Rescue Boat

Newport Daily News article

Strategic Plan Moves Forward

Newport This Week article

Naval Undersea Warfare Center, City Join Forces on Business Incubator

Newport Daily News Article

Broadway Merchants Celebrate with Street Fair

Newport This Week article

Tech Center gets a boost from $1.92 Million in Tax Credits

Newport Daily News article

Land-Use Plan is Approved, Forwarded to Newport City Council

Newport Daily News article

 

 

 

 

 

 
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