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"If you're not AT Newport's St. Paddy's Day Parade, you're probably IN it." Picture a sea of green sparkling faces, wide eyed children, green antennae, curl-bouncing step dancers, miscellaneous clowns, police, military, firefighters and, yes, even a man in a morphsuit and you begin to understand the mayhem that is the Newport, RI St. Patrick's Day Parade. Today is the day we say good-bye to winter, hello again to our neighbors. We celebrate as locals before our population quintuples with the ... Read Full Post

2011 was a banner year for Hogan Associates Real Estate of Newport, RI. The agency added an office on Bellevue Avenue, participated in Rhode Island's highest residential sale of the year and averaged 14.3 sales per agent - more than twice the number of their closest competitor and nearly 4 times the regional average of 3.8. Leading the charge was Matt Hadfield, the firm's top producer closing 37 transaction sides totalling $12,615,000. Matt was also the top producing agent for Newport County ... Read Full Post

Today I traveled from my usual haunt on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island to Warren, a historic, waterfront town where I photographed St. Mark's, a lovely old Episcopal church about to go on the market. The Diocese of Rhode Island assumed responsibility for St. Mark's a couple of years ago when the congregation could no longer support it. A member with whom I served on a board recommended me, and although the request gave me pause, I was intrigued at the prospect of finding someone to ... Read Full Post