Here's your local news at a glance for Thursday, the 29th of October.
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🏘️ Community
The Women's Resource Center is urging Newport residents during Domestic Violence Awareness Month One of Us campaign to recognize that abuse can be emotional, financial, or controlling and to seek support; last year the center served more than 1,100 survivors and answered over 1,200 hotline calls.
A Wish Come True will hold its 23rd annual Polar Plunge at Easton’s Beach at noon on Friday, Jan.
1, with hundreds expected to run into the Atlantic to raise funds for children facing life‑threatening illnesses. Registration is open with a $25 minimum donation; fundraising closes at 11:59 p.m. Jan. 1.
🌲 Environment
Tiverton will extend public water to six homes with PFAS-contaminated wells after officials updated residents this week about the plan, saying RIDEM tested nearly 200 wells and found 110 contaminated (residents are still seeking more details).
📰 Lifestyle
Family-friendly trick-or-treat and Halloween events will take place across Newport this weekend, with neighborhood trick-or-treating, costumed gatherings, and candy hunts at local parks + community centers, and organizers will post times and safety details.
📰 Real Estate
A Middletown home sold for $2.3 million, topping this week's Newport County sales; other recorded closings include a $1 million Aquidneck Avenue unit in Middletown and a $599,000 condo in Jamestown.
🏈 Sports
The Newport Gulls will hold youth winter baseball clinics Sundays, Dec.
6, Dec. 13, Dec. 20 and Jan. 3 from 9:00 a.m. to noon at Aquidneck Island Sports in Portsmouth, open to boys and girls ages 8 to 12 with coaches including Portsmouth native John Mass; registration opened Wednesday.
Chariho Prout and Tiverton Bay View will meet for the Division III field hockey title at 5 p.m. Sunday (Rogers Williams University) after Vivian Smith’s 1-0 semifinal and Ava MacFarlane’s overtime winner advanced their teams.
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