🌱 Patch AM: How a new grant could change Jamestown police crisis responses

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In today's newsletter:

• How a new grant could change Jamestown police crisis responses
• How DNA evidence finally advanced a Jamestown woman's 1985 murder case

Also on today's calendar: 2nd Annual Japan-America Friendship Festival is Back in Newport! and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Sunday: Some rain in the afternoon, with a high of 62 and low of 57 degrees.
• Monday: Some rain in the morning, temps: high: 67, low: 53.
• Tuesday: Some sun, then clouds, with a high of 64 and low of 57 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Aquidneck Community Table and Crisis Intervention Teams of R.I. each win $65,000 from the Rhode Island Foundation (whatsupnewp.com) — Jamestown residents will see their police included in new behavioral‑health crisis training funded by a $65,000 Rhode Island Foundation grant to Crisis Intervention Teams of R.I. Another $65,000 will support a Middletown food hub serving Newport County, expanding access to fresh local food and programming that Jamestown neighbors can benefit from across the region.
   

• R.I. man went to prison for raping a teen in 1985. Now he's accused of murdering a woman nearby a month before. (bostonglobe.com) — Jamestown residents are learning new details in the 1985 killing of town native Lisa Hellewell, after prosecutors linked a suspect to DNA recovered from the Newport crime scene. Attorney General Peter Neronha, who grew up with Hellewell in Jamestown, says his Cold Case Unit used modern genetic genealogy and discarded DNA to bring a murder charge decades later.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Jamestown

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday October 17
• 2nd Annual Japan-America Friendship Festival is Back in Newport! →
  5 Touro Park St W, Newport
  10:00 am

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Other local events

Friday October 16
• Glow Ball Scramble at Jamestown Golf Course →
  Jamestown Golf Course, Jamestown
  6:00 pm
Sunday October 18
• Save The Bay and ORCA: International Coastal Cleanup - Fort Wetherill Cleanup with ORCA →
  3 Fort Wetherill Rd, Jamestown, RI 02835
  10:00 am
Wednesday October 21
• Open Mic: Wednesday Night Live At The Ganny →
  Narragansett Cafe, 25 Narragansett Ave, Jamestown
  7:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Sunday October 11
• Heart & Sole Walk for Animals →
  Fort Adams State Park, 80 Fort Adams Dr, Newport
  11:00 am
• Melo Green →
  Brick Market Place, Goddard Row, Newport
  12:00 pm
• 4:30pm Haunted High Tea →
  The Pantry Cafe and Provisions, 111 Bellevue Avenue, Newport
  4:30 pm
Tuesday October 13
• Sensory Friendly Hour at The Sailing Museum →
  The Sailing Museum & National Sailing Hall of Fame, 365 Thames St., Newport
  10:00 am
• October Family Movie Nights at The Sailing Museum →
  The Sailing Museum & National Sailing Hall of Fame, 365 Thames St., Newport
  5:00 pm
Wednesday October 14
• Aquidneck Farmers' Market →
  Aquidneck Growers Market (Wednesdays), 31 Chapel Street, Newport
  2:00 pm
• Aquidneck Growers Market →
  Memorial Blvd, Newport
  2:00 pm
• Rainbow Resilience →
  EBCAP Recovery Center Newport, 23 Marlboro Street, Newport
  5:00 pm
• Community Meal and Spanish Listening Session - Comida y Conversación Comunitaria →
  Martin Luther King Community Center, Newport
  5:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Walmart posted a job opening for Stocking Team Associate in Newport. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Newport

• Newport Mansions Christmas 2026: Events, Lights & Ticket Guide (live959.com)
• My Ride: Concours d'Elegance in Newport, RI draws Connecticut car owners and a former president (ctinsider.com)
• Saltwater Sessions: Newport Boat Show & Boat U.S. with Kelsey Bailey (wpri.com)

Middletown

• Middletown Purgatory Road Sidewalk and Bike Lane Work Set (upriseri.com)
• Here's what happened on a busy Thursday night of RI high school sports (newportri.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath?" — A dirty double crosser ! (Thank you Theresia F. for sending it in!)
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