Good morning, Newport.

Newport County is set for a long weekend with marquee events (Broadway Street Fair on Saturday, Oct.

10; a pumpkin patch, comedy festival, animal walk and block party on Oct. 10-11) that will offer live music, family fun and local vendors for residents.

Newport Restoration Foundation got a $749,250 Save America’s Treasures grant from the National Park Service to stabilize and improve Vernon House (46 Clarke St.) today, built in 1708 and a key historic site, as the only Rhode Island group to win this award in 2026.

Applications are open for vendors at IYRS School of Technology & Trades' Artisan Holiday Market on Dec.

5, part of the Holly Jolly Weekend on the Thames Street waterfront campus. Makers of handmade goods should apply soon as spaces are limited before the December festivities.

Officials in Narragansett and Jamestown are considering sharing one superintendent as declining enrollment prompts budget cuts; Jamestown School Committee will meet today and Narragansett on Oct.

21 to decide on a joint role led by interim superintendent Kathy Sipala and a successor to retiring Peter Cummings.

Salve Regina University students won first prize at a national financial analysis contest held in Chicago Oct.

1-2 and a second team finished fourth among 93 colleges; seniors applied valuation techniques to analyze Micron Technology's performance.