Morning Notes: Tune into MVYRADIO this weekend to hear select Newport Folk Festival performances

Good morning, Newport!

🗓️ Today is Thursday, July 24, the 205th day of 2025. There are 160 days left in the year.

🚨 You need to know

MVYRADIO will offer comprehensive coverage of the sold-out Newport Folk Festival, which runs Friday through Sunday at Fort Adams. The festival will provide the Martha’s Vineyard-based station with exclusive recorded performances from each day, available for one-time-only broadcasts nightly from 7-9 p.m.

The station will provide live reports throughout each festival day and post photos and updates on social media. Artists tentatively scheduled for the exclusive evening broadcasts include folk supergroup I’m With Her, indie folk band Bonny Light Horseman and singer-songwriter SG Goodman.

“We’re heading to Fort Adams this weekend for the Newport Folk Festival,” MVYRADIO said in an announcement. “As always, you’ll hear from us on the air throughout the day with reports from the festival.”

The coverage is supported by Midtown Oyster. The Newport Folk Festival, which began in 1959, has sold out this year’s three-day event.

What else you should know

🐶 What started as a routine NFL training camp kickoff turned into a heartwarming adoption event Wednesday, as the New England Patriots partnered with the Potter League for Animals to

find forever homes for 14 puppies

.

🏖️ Gov. Dan McKee signed an executive order Wednesday designating July 27 as Rhode Island’s

36th annual Governor’s Bay Day

, offering free beach parking and license-free saltwater fishing to celebrate the state’s coastal resources.

🚨 Portsmouth police arrested a Fall River, Massachusetts, man in connection with a series of

vehicle-related thefts

that occurred in December.

👉 Last night’s Newport City Council meeting ran for 2 hours and 12 minutes. You can

watch it here

. Coming up next for Newport City Council is a workshop on Rule of the Council on July 30 and a workshop on Boards and Commissions Oversight Committee on August 6.

🎶 Grammy-winning music icon Kenny Loggins

will make a special appearance

at newportFILM’s outdoor screening of “Conviction of the Heart” this evening at the Newport International Polo Grounds in Portsmouth.

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📅 What’s Up Today

• Today: Sunny, with a high near 79. Southwest wind 8 to 15 mph.
• Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 71. Southwest wind 11 to 14 mph.
• Tomorrow: A chance of showers, mainly after 4 pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 83. Southwest wind 11 to 16 mph. The chance of precipitation is 30%—new precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch are possible.

• Sunrise at 5:32 am. Sunset at 8:09 pm. 14 hours & 37 minutes of sun.
• High tide at 8:03 am & 8:31 pm. Low tide at 2:11 am & 1:23 pm.
• The lunar phase is a Waning Crescent.
• The coastal water temperature is 67 degrees.

• 4 pm:

  
  Fashioning Doris Duke
  

  at Rough Point Museum

• 5 pm:

  
  Children’s Night featuring Keith Munslow
  

  at Easton’s Beach

• 6 pm:

  
  Third Beach Yoga
  

  at Third Beach

• 7 pm:

  
  Newport Folk All Star Game
  

  at Cardines Field

• 8:25 pm:

  
  newportFILM presents Conviction of the Heart
  

  at Newport International Polo Grounds

• JPT Film & Event Center:

  
  The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life In The Universe: Art House Theater Day
  

  at 1:30 pm

• Landing: Justin Pomfret at 12:30 pm, DJ Roux at 4 pm, Timmy Smith at 8 pm
• Narragansett Cafe:

  
  Michelle Saylors
  

  at 5 pm

• Newport Blues Cafe:

  
  Extra Innings hosted by Geese
  

  at 10 pm

• Newport Harbor Island Resort: Justin Pomfret at 6 pm
• Newport Craft:

  
  Trivia
  

  at 7 pm

• Newport Vineyards:

  
  Trivia
  

  at 6 pm

• O’Brien’s Pub: The Grafters on the patio at 4:30 pm,

  
  DJ CNote
  

  in the pub at 9:30 pm

• Ragged Island Brewing Company:

  
  Trivia
  

  at 6 pm

• Sunset Cove: Mark Flynn at 5:30 pm
• Top of Pelham:

  
  Dueling Pianos
  

  at 8 pm

• No meetings are scheduled.

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