Hopefully the holiday season was a good time for you to spend with family and friends. A visitor to my office used a quote the other day that I will paraphrase — So often we get too caught up in looking for the perfect that we miss the good. Very rarely will anything [...]

This year the Newport Economic Development Commission added a new tool to local development efforts, the ReNewport Grant. ReNewport grants assist smaller retail and commercial businesses make needed improvements to the exterior of their business property. The program offers a 50/50 matching grant with the NEDC paying up to $2,500 of the cost. [...]