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Cheers Newport! We're back, helping you stay up to date with what's happening. Let's take on the day together! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Which Newport home just sold for a stunning $4.5 million?
  • How will $130,000 in new grants change Newport County services?
  • How a tossed water bottle revived Newport's 1985 murder case.

Also on today's calendar: 2nd Annual Japan-America Friendship Festival is Back in Newport! and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why do some birds fly south for the winter? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Monday: A stray a.m. shower; clearing, with a high of 68 and low of 53 degrees.
  • Tuesday: Some sun, then clouds, temps: high: 64, low: 60.
  • Wednesday: Partly sunny, nice and warm, with a high of 73 and low of 54 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. What's the most expensive property sold in RI? Oct. 10 real estate transactions (providencejournal.com) — Newport saw a Mount Vernon Street home sell for $4.5 million, alongside several other high-dollar deals on Bellevue, Carroll, Brooks, Homer, and Tilden. A statewide roundup of recent real estate transactions offers a detailed look at who's buying, selling, and what properties are going for across Rhode Island, with especially eye-catching numbers in Newport.
   

2. Aquidneck Community Table and Crisis Intervention Teams of R.I. each win $65,000 from the Rhode Island Foundation (whatsupnewp.com) — Newport County residents will see new support for fresh food access and safer behavioral health crisis responses thanks to two $65,000 Rhode Island Foundation grants. Aquidneck Community Table is building a year-round food and community hub on the Newport–Middletown border, while Crisis Intervention Teams of R.I. will train local police departments, including Newport's, in de-escalation and connecting people to care.
   

3. Discarded trash uncaps 41-year-old murder case in ritzy seaside resort town, authorities say (whmi.com) — Newport residents are seeing a 41-year-old local murder case move forward after an arrest in the 1985 killing of 22-year-old Hillary Hellewell, whose body was found on Anthony Street. Investigators say new DNA testing, including evidence from a discarded water bottle, links a 61-year-old man already once convicted of a violent Newport assault to the long-unsolved crime.
   

4. East Bay Community Action Program receives state health clinic designation (pbn.com) — Newport residents now have access to a state-designated Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic through East Bay Community Action Program, which operates behavioral health and primary care centers in Newport. The new status means 24/7 crisis support, expanded counseling, and care regardless of ability to pay, as part of a statewide effort to improve mental health and recovery services.
   

5. Is it legal to park in front of someone's house in Rhode Island? See law (providencejournal.com) — If you park on Newport streets, you should know the city bans leaving a vehicle in the same spot for 24 hours without moving it. A statewide explainer on Rhode Island parking and abandoned-vehicle rules highlights how local ordinances, like Newport's, can add stricter limits, making it worth double-checking where and how long you leave your car.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why do some birds fly south for the winter?" — Because it's too far to walk..! (Thank you Theresia F. for sending it in!)
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