Newport County News

After weeks of advance work, production began this past weekend on "Behind the Hedgerow," a feature-length documentary about Newport society that will be broadcast on PBS in 2010.

The sea level around Rhode Island's coastal communities, including Warwick, continues to rise, but the maps don't necessarily show it, yet.

Scott Greenberg reached the breaking point of frustration when he was slapped with a $25 ticket for unwittingly leaving his Honda Accord in a spot reserved for Newport residents.

Hitomi Gilliam, an internationally acclaimed floral designer and author, and David Howard, former gardener for Prince Charles at Highgrove, will be the featured speakers during the Newport Flower Show this weekend.

The latest round of Big Read grants was just announced by IMLS and NEH. The Rhode Island winners are: Preservation Society of Newport County Newport, RI for The Great Gatsby.

The Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust has awarded the Community College of Rhode Island $50,000 to purchase wireless laptop computers and carts to integrate informatics, the science of information and the practice of information processing, into the existing health sciences curriculum at the Newport County campus.

Democratic Party fundraiser Mark S. Weiner and his wife, L. Susan Weiner, of East Greenwich, have sued Carnegie Tower Development Co.

Police said a woman admitted to stealing a blind man's cane and turned herself in on Thursday.

Visitors to the Breakers, the Vanderbilt family's 1895 estate, take a new route this year through the 70-room mansion here.

Governor Donald L. Carcieri, expected in some corners to name Supreme Court Justice Maureen McKenna Goldberg the next chief justice, has instead named Justice Paul A. Suttell to the post.

HUNDREDS of mourners - including many former team-mates - paid tribute to Ipswich Town legend John Elsworthy at his funeral yesterday.

Belcourt Castle, long one of Bellevue Avenue's oddest mansions, has been put up for sale for $7.2 million by the sole surviving member of the family that has lived in it, owned it and opened it to the public for more than half a century.

A WOMAN born in one of Newport's best known pubs celebrated her 100th birthday on Friday.

In a 3-hour meeting filled with spirited debate about core priorities for Portsmouth, the Town Council tonight provisionally approved a budget for the coming fiscal year capping transfer station stickers at the current $100 and retaining lifeguards at Sandy Point - all while still coming in about $4K below the S3050 cap.

The Newport Daily News prints more than 11,000 copies a daily, and more on Saturday.

NEWPORT County have announced a bigger-than-ever playing budget for next season.

Rhode Island, which is called "the biggest little state in the union", only has one community college, which has several branches scattered across the state.

Alan Schuster, of New Jersey, looks over the grand dinning room at the Breakers, while listening to the new audio tour that leads visitors throughout the mansion.

Jobs were hard to find last summer. This year, finding work will be even tougher, as Rhode Island enters the second summer of a severe recession.

" For the past several weeks, armed with stacks of research and list-filled note pads, three local business owners have been gathering here on Friday mornings to share coffee and some big ideas.