Here's your local news at a glance for Friday, the 30th of October.
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🏘️ Community
Hundreds of witches paddled through Wickford Harbor on Oct.
24 to raise funds for the North Kingstown Food Pantry, launching from Gardner’s Launch and finishing at the town dock with costume contests for Best Witch, Best Warlock, Best Dressed Pet, and Most Creative.
The Florence Gray Community Learning Center reopened with a ribbon-cutting attended by Gov. McKee on Oct.
27, unveiling a two-story Gallagher Wing and a redesigned interior. The center adds a tele-medicine room, two computer labs, four meeting rooms, seven classrooms, a print center, and 25 reserveable laptops; $2.9 million of the $7.5M project came from Newport and Middletown (state grants).
🌲 Environment
Preservation experts met in Newport Oct.
21 to 23 for the Newport Restoration Foundation's Keeping History Above Water symposium to share strategies such as public and private funding, fortified roofs and site resilience tours to protect historic properties from climate impacts.
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