The Boston Globe — Summer is over, but battle over Narragansett Town Beach heats up

People walk along Narragansett Town Beach in September 2021. JOHN TLUMACKI/GLOBE STAFF

Oct 13, 2021

By Brian Amaral — Town Council members heard a proposal from the town’s parks and recreation director, Michelle Kershaw, to raise walk-on admission fees to the Narragansett Town Beach from $12 to $15 per person

NARRAGANSETT, RI — Narragansett Town Beach at sunset Tuesday: cotton-candy skies, people wearing blankets against the autumn mildness, a small dog with a scrunched face bounding from seashell to seashell like a puddle jumper exploring the coast for new sniffs.

It was, in other words, peaceful. It was, in other words, the opposite of what was taking place a mile away at Town Hall, where the Town Council held a meeting about a possible fee hike to get on that very peaceful beach. No cotton-candy skies here.

“Vote him out!” one man in the crowd jeered through cupped hands after the town council president spoke against the fee hike at one particularly contentious point.

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