By Christopher Shea | Reporter
Hiya,
This fall and winter’s hottest fashion trend? Fluorescent orange clothing, if it were up to the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management.
Department officials are reminding hunters and other outdoor enthusiasts that they must wear at least 200 square inches of orange in state management areas and undeveloped state parks as archery deer season begins Saturday.
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High tide Saturday in Bristol is at 9:27 a.m and 9:47 p.m. Low tide is at 2:58 p.m. Sunrise is at 6:22 a.m. Sunset is at 7 p.m.
High tide Sunday in Little Compton is at 9:49 a.m. and 10:07 p.m. Low tide is at 3:17 a.m. and 3:52 p.m. Sunrise is at 6:23 a.m. Sunset is at 6:57 p.m.
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Here’s your look at the week that was:
The Record Hill wind farm in Roxbury, Maine. (Photo via U.S. Department of Energy)
By Nancy Lavin
A tentative contract announced by Rhode Island Energy this week would bring 150 megawatts of renewable electricity to the state via an onshore wind farm planned in northern Maine.
Sharon Serio-Valente, left, mother of 21-year-old fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Serio, and Margaret Nassaney, right, mother of Shawn Nassaney who lost his life on United Flight 175 on 9/11, carry a wreath at the Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Exeter on Friday, Sept. 11, 2026. (Photo by Laura Paton/Rhode Island Current)
By Rhode Island Current Staff
Over 100 people attended the solemn 45-minute ceremony with state leaders, first responders, and Gold Star families on Friday morning at the Rhode Island Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Exeter on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. The names of nine Rhode Islanders who died in the terrorist attacks were read aloud.
Helena Buonanno Foulkes celebrates her victory over Gov. Dan McKee in the Democratic primary with supporters outside Track 15 in Providence Wednesday night. (Photo by Michael Salerno/Rhode Island Current)
By Nancy Lavin
Gov. Dan McKee won’t be in office to see through his promised “day of reckoning” over the Washington Bridge closure, after losing his reelection bid to Democratic challenger Helena Buonanno Foulkes on Wednesday, according to preliminary, unofficial results. Foulkes had 62% of votes, compared with McKee’s 38%, with more than half of votes reported as of 8:20 p.m.
State Rep. David Morales celebrates his victory in the Democratic primary over Providence Mayor Brett Smiley with supporters outside Riffraff bookstore and bar Wednesday night, Sept. 9, 2026. (Photo by Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current)
By Alexander Castro
Providence voters handed a decisive win to progressive Rep. David Morales over the capital city’s pragmatic incumbent Brett Smiley in Wednesday’s Democratic mayoral primary. Morales captured 57% of the vote to Smiley’s 43% after polls closed at 8 p.m. according to unofficial results from the Rhode Island Board of Elections.
Kim Ahern, Democratic candidate for attorney general, holds her daughter Parker, 2, as she votes at Laurelmead Senior Living in Providence on Wednesday morning, Sept. 9, 2026. Next to her is her wife Jenna Lafayette. (Photo by Michael Salerno/Rhode Island Current)
By Christopher Shea
Former state cannabis regulator Kim Ahern on Wednesday won the Democratic nomination to be Rhode Island’s next attorney attorney general with 36% of the vote, defeating three other candidates including Keith Hoffmann, the chosen successor of the outgoing AG. Hoffmann, who largely funded his campaign with his own money, received 33% of the vote.
More than 37,000 Rhode Island voters cast ballots early at designated in-person polling places, including East Providence City Hall, pictured, as of noon on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2026. (Photo by Nancy Lavin/Rhode Island Current)
By Nancy Lavin
More Rhode Islanders than ever before cast ballots early at designated in-person polling sites open before the Sept. 9 primary. The 37,444 early, in-person ballots cast through Tuesday — the end of early voting — is more than double the 16,900 early, in-person ballots cast in 2022, and three times as much as the 12,100 early ballots cast ahead of the 2024 primary.
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