Friday kicks off the last weekend of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, and Newport is celebrating this year with a festival, bicycle parade, and live performances. Reporter Antonia Ayres-Brown sat down with Dani Cano Restrepo and Sean O’Connor, who run the travel and advocacy organization Newport Out and have organized Newport Pride since 2018.
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Newport approves scaled-back bicycle safety resolution, disappointing some local cyclists
Newport’s City Council approved a resolution Wednesday in support of bicycle safety. But a group of local cyclists says the Council hasn’t done enough to articulate where and when people can expect to see specific improvements.
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‘It’s going to look different’: What to expect at Newport’s music festivals this summer
Newport’s iconic folk and jazz festivals are returning to Fort Adams State Park this summer, after being canceled last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This time around, Newport Folk will be split into two three-day events. Tickets go on sale Tuesday morning. Reporter Antonia Ayres-Brown spoke with Jay Sweet, the executive producer of Newport […]
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‘La necesitamos aquí’: Newport corre para vacunar a los residentes latinos
Newport tiene una de las tasas más altas de nuevos casos de COVID-19 en Rhode Island, con un brote particularmente preocupante en la comunidad hispana y latina. Las autoridades locales y los grupos comunitarios están corriendo para conseguir que las vacunas lleguen a los brazos de los residentes de alto riesgo, de los cuales a algunos les preocupa que la estrategia de vacunación temprana del Rhode Island no les haya dado la prioridad adecuada.
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‘We need it down here’: Newport races to vaccinate Latino residents
Newport now has one of the highest rates of new COVID-19 cases in the state, with a particularly worrying uptick in the Hispanic and Latino community. City officials and community groups are racing to get vaccines in the arms of high-risk residents, who some worry weren’t adequately prioritized by the state’s early vaccination strategy.
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Newport pushes to vaccinate Latino residents, as community faces rise in COVID-19 cases
A pop-up vaccination clinic in Newport on Wednesday is targeting the city’s Hispanic and Latino community, as well as BIPOC residents and other communities of color. Advocates say they’re worried by an uptick in cases among Latino residents — and by low vaccination rates among this community.
Reporter Antonia Ayres-Brown sat down with Rebekah Gomez and Yolanda Macías, of Conexión Latina Newport, a local group that supports and advocates for Hispanic families.
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‘We don’t want to lose anyone else’: The push for safety barriers on Rhode Island’s bridges
A coalition of residents, mental health advocates, and lawmakers is calling on the state to install safety measures to prevent suicides on the three largest Narragansett Bay bridges. Among those behind the push are two local residents who have been talking about bridge safety for the last five years to anyone who would listen.
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Tiverton repeals resolution supporting Second Amendment
In the aftermath of multiple mass shootings in the United States during March, Tiverton’s Town Council has repealed a resolution that encouraged local police to use “sound discretion” in enforcing state and federal gun laws.
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‘Constant COVID-brain’: Newport’s school nurses describe the stress of keeping students, teachers safe during a pandemic
More than 90 students and teachers in Newport’s school buildings have tested positive for the coronavirus since September, and more than 900 have been told to quarantine. Much of the responsibility, and stress, of tracing potential exposures has fallen to the district’s four school nurse teachers.
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Salve Regina University works to better support LGBTQ+ students, as Vatican disappoints
Last week, the Vatican declared that priests cannot bless same-sex unions, crushing many Catholics’ hopes for greater inclusivity in the Church. But at Salve Regina University, a school with a long Catholic tradition, students and faculty are moving forward with efforts to make its campus a more accepting place for the LGBTQ+ community.
