Sean Flynn

The agreement’s were approved at Wednesday night’s council meeting.

The long-awaited safety measures and traffic calming improvements for Hillside Avenue are expected to begin in the late spring of this year.

The Newport City Council will vote on a $168,550 contract to architects and engineers for a conceptual design for a new Easton’s Beach building.

The state Department of Transportation will begin design work this year on projects that include creating a Town Center roundabout for Portsmouth.

Several projects using federal funds were discussed during a joint workshop between the Newport City Council and local legislators.

Mark Stickney uses an online sound-editing program to input notes of historic sheet music and create recordings.

“If we start constructing over that stream or moving that stream, you don’t know what’s going to happen.”

Top medical officers at Newport Hospital held a press conference Tuesday to assure the community the hospital continues to operate at full capacity.

People sent in more than 1,500 fabric bags to be fill with necessities for those in need. The Community Baptist Church started the initiative.

“The high school will be designed so there can be future additions,” said Superintendent Colleen Burns Jermain said.