Press & News
Boston Globe — Reed, Whitehouse don waders to recognize $1.6M aquaculture earmark
By Brian Amaral — The money will help make growing oysters and other shellfish more effective and accessible to would-be farmers.
The Public’s Radio — House commission to invite public comment in South County on shoreline access
By Alex Nunes — A State House commission set up to study access to Rhode Island’s shoreline will take one of its meetings to South County later this year to get public comment from communities where disputes over beach access have been most contentious.
The Boston Globe — Here’s who will serve on a commission looking into R.I. shoreline rights
By Brian Amaral — A new Rhode Island House study commission looking into the hotly contested subject of shoreline rights will meet for the first time Aug. 26 at the State House, according to the office of House Speaker K. Joseph Shekarchi.
The Public’s Radio — Members named to new state commission on shoreline access in Rhode Island
By Alex Nunes — State lawmakers are taking another step forward in their plans to examine shoreline access in Rhode Island with appointments to a new House commission.
Save the Bay — Championing the Public’s Right to Access the Shore
ABSTRACT — In order to ensure access to the coast for residents and visitors to Narragansett Bay, Save The Bay identified the finalization of a GIS dataset of State-designated rights-of-way (ROW) as a strategic objective for the organization over the past year…