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Many R.I. farmer’s markets are opening this weekend. Here are a few near you It’s a sure sign of spring: Even with a few COVID-19 restrictions, many markets will welcome customers this weekend By Alexa Gagosz Globe Staff,Updated April 29, 2021, 1:42 p.m. Email to a Friend Farmers’ markets are the ideal warm weather activity, and that joy of buying local, outdoors, is about to return to the Ocean State.Pat Greenhouse/Globe Staff Overflowing wooden crates of sweet corn cobs. Local,...

Newport Daily News NEWPORT – When the City Council develops a budget for the coming fiscal year that begins on July 1, it will have an extra $1 million to plug in because of school bond savings. City Finance Director Laura Sitrin told council members Wednesday night the city issued general obligation bonds totaling $28.575 million on June 20, 2013, to finance construction of the new Pell Elementary School. These bonds were essentially loans from the Rhode Island Health and Educational Buildi...

Newport Daily News NEWPORT — The city’s School Building Committee is now advertising for an architect and engineering firm to design a new Rogers High School in the coming year. The 22-member committee that includes school and city officials, as well as volunteers from the community, is seeking separately an architect and construction firm to make a proposal for a “design-build” of the planned eight-room addition to the Pell Elementary School. Finally, the committee, which is co-chaired...

Newport Daily News NEWPORT — As students return to in-person learning, the superintendent of Newport Public Schools provided an update Wednesday on asymptomatic testing for students and staff. There will be a one-day asymptomatic testing event on Wednesday, Jan. 20 at Pell Elementary School, Colleen Burns Jermain said in a letter to the school community. Consent letters were distributed and families that wish to have their students tested must complete and return a consent letter to Pell El...