Leading an Evolving Organization
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Jun 1, 2021
It all started when surfers had trouble parking to gain access to the waves. That same summer, high bacteria counts spiked, closing beaches on Aquidneck Island, home of Newport, Middletown and Portsmouth, R.I. The result was a new grassroots organization speaking out for access to clean ocean water. Almost as an afterthought, the group ran a beach cleanup, which sparked community engagement and became a defining feature of Clean Ocean Access, a nonprofit that now raises and spends $1 million annually.
Dave McLaughlin was a surfer who co-founded the group and is now its executive director. He says Aquidneck Island’s challenges offer a small-scale opportunity to test initiatives in outreach, education and solving real-world issues with programs like marina trash skimmers and shrink-wrap recycling.
Newport Daily News
NEWPORT Tuesday was the first day fully vaccinated people in Rhode Island no longer were required to wear a mask and be socially distant in most settings, and there was cautious excitement about the new rules.
The announcement for the new mandates came last Friday after President Joe Biden s recommendation that fully vaccinated people can go out in public without face masks. Rhode Island s first mask mandate initially went into effect on April 18, 2020.
Then in early June, the Newport City Council passed its own mandate stating everyone except children and those with health conditions walking on certain busy city streets must wear masks. But according to City Manager Joseph J. Nicholson Jr. in a previous article, Tuesday s statewide reversal also includes Newport s own mandate.
New eras in Newport news
In 1918, the newspaper was sold to Edward Sherman, who continued publishing the newspaper until his death on June 15, 1934. By May 4, 1921 the paper s 75th anniversary the paper had grown to 12 pages and its circulation had increased from 3,500 in 1896, to a daily average of 6,500 and published frequent special editions.
Following his death, the paper was published by his two sons, Albert K. Sherman, and Edward A. Ned Sherman Jr., under the terms of his will, by the Edward A. Sherman Publishing Company and was eventually headed up by Albert K. Buck Sherman, who always knew he d end up as the paper s publisher.