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Rise & Shine! Your Newport County guide for Feb. 19 © Gloria Schmidt photo The Quaker Hill School in Portsmouth.
Rise & Shine! I’m Scott Barrett, digital editor for The Daily News, and today is Feb. 19, the 50th day of the year 315 days remain in 2021. On this day in 1953, the Georgia Literature Commission was established. It aided local prosecutors in enforcing the state s obscenity laws and censored hundreds of publications.
Here & Now
• Despite recent proposals to build affordable housing units at former schools in Middletown and Portsmouth, those towns still fall woefully short of meeting the state s 10% affordable housing requirement.
Even if the 40-unit proposal at the former Berkeley-Peckham School site in Middletown is realized, the town still would only be at 5.97%. In Portsmouth, a proposal to build housing units as well as senior center at the former Anne Hutchinson and Coggeshall schools would be nothing more than a drop in the bucket because the town
NEWPORT Experts are unclear if there is a causal link between the two dolphins that washed up on Newport beaches within the past two weeks.
“Dolphins can strand for a number of reasons,” said Sarah Callan, assistant manager of the Mystic Aquarium Animal Response Team in Connecticut. “I can t really say if there s a trend that I ve seen on the recent ones.”
The aquarium’s Animal Response Team, which responds to reports of alive or dead marine animals in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York, removed a baby dolphin off the shore of King Park on New Year s Day and euthanized it after a thorough health inspection revealed it was critically ill.