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Fred Albert Newport Life magazine Little Compton is one of the few places where you could get lost and not mind it a bit. Back roads beckon you with verdant vistas and venerable homes in a happy marriage of country charm and cosmopolitan mien.  For a health care executive who had summered in Little Compton his whole life, buying a home there felt like an adventure right out of Goldilocks. For several years, he visited house after house, but nothing was quite right: This one lacked character. That one was too ostentatious. Another needed too much work.   You might conclude that the house he ...

April 6, 2021 Donald L. Waddell, 78, of Georgetown passed away peacefully at his home Friday, April 2, 2021.  He was born to the late Fred Albert and Gertrude E. (Carter) Waddell. He grew up in Rectortown, Va., and attended high school in Marshall, Va. After graduation, he served two years in the Army as a tank mechanic in Fort Bliss, Texas. He returned to Baltimore, Md., where he worked for UPS for 26 years as a feeder driver. He served as the secretary of the Teamsters Union Local 355 for several years. He transferred to UPS in Harrington and worked as a feeder supervisor, where ...

West Virginia Public Broadcasting Leaders from several of West Virginia’s largest teacher unions had sharp criticism for bills under consideration in the state legislature. They voiced their concerns to the state Board of Education on Wednesday. “Our educators have worked harder in this pandemic year than anyone could have ever asked,” said Dale Lee, president of the West Virginia Educators Association and a special education teacher at Princeton High School. “They’ve worked harder and reached out to more children than anybody could have imagined. Our educators are heroes and they�...

Newport Life magazine Aquidneck Island residents Kelley Coen, Alyson Novick and Elizabeth Brantingham were looking for a project they could work on during the pandemic when they hit upon the idea of creating a tartan that’s specific to Newport. The resulting pattern, The Newport Tartan, has been officially recognized by Scotland’s Registry of Tartans and the City of Newport, and is making its debut as a scarf this spring. Crafted from 100-percent wool, it sells for $75 and can be ordered by emailing thenewporttartan@gmail.com or visiting thenewporttartan.com.  Net proceeds benefit loc...

Newport Life magazine When it comes to the coronavirus, it seems like no institution is sacred. The latest victim? The Easter egg.  Newport’s Julie McGrath has been making pysanky, or Ukrainian Easter eggs, for the last 40 years — and has been hosting an egg-decorating party for nearly as long. This year, however, she doesn’t know whether the gathering will take place. McGrath usually welcomes about two dozen women into her Fifth Ward home on Palm Sunday. This year, she’s considering moving the party outdoors if the weather allows. “A lot of my ladies are older, so I don’t know i...