Wednesday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 77 and low of 62 degrees.
Thursday: Partly sunny and humid, temps: high: 76, low: 68.
Friday: A shower and t-storm; humid, with a high of 78 and low of 64 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• McKee Administration Approves Incentives for Economic Development and Job Creation (commerceri.com) — Middletown residents should know local defense firm SEACORP is set to receive about $1 million in state tax credits to create at least 53 high-paying jobs, with a median salary of $100,000. The same Commerce Board meeting also approved new incentives to help convert Providence's long-vacant Superman Building into hundreds of mixed-income apartments, leveraging substantial federal and private financing.
• As students return to school, so do school zone speed cameras (turnto10.com) — If you drive through Middletown's school zones, be ready: speed cameras that issued more than 6,500 violations by mid-March are switching back on as students return to class. The report explains how Rhode Island's automated school-zone enforcement works, notes heavy ticketing in North Kingstown too, and urges drivers to slow down to avoid costly citations.
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🗞 Nearby News
Newport
RI fugitive convicted of sexual assault to be sentenced this fall (wpri.com)
Jamestown
Tracking mosquito-borne disease across Rhode Island: Q&A with Azaliah Lopes (uri.edu)
Rhode Island school-zone speed cameras are turning back on: here's where they're located (wpri.com)
Warwick
North Providence Man Wanted on Breaking And Entering, Conspiracy Charges Captured: Cops (patch.com)
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