Jul 11, 2019 — By Brian Amaral — When Charlestown resident Scott Keeley went to the beach on a sunny Sunday recently, he thought he had state law on his side: the Rhode Island Constitution says he’s allowed to collect seaweed along the shore…

Jul 6, 2019 — By Tom Mooney — A month after Charlestown resident Scott Keeley was arrested for trespassing, he and about 100 other protesters returned to the same swath of beach on Saturday to raise awareness to what they say is the erosion of Rhode Islanders’ state constitutional right to the shore.

By Dale P Faulkner — Moorings just outside of Watch Hill Cove that had been mandated for removal within a few days will be allowed to stay for the current boating season under a new plan…

By Philip Cozzolino — Narragansett, RI — The town will look to create six public parking spaces in Point Judith in response to surfers and ocean enthusiasts recently being ticketed for parking in the area and utilizing local public access points to the water.

By Philip Cozzolino — Narragansett, RI — The town will look to create six public parking spaces in Point Judith in response to surfers and ocean enthusiasts recently being ticketed for parking in the area and utilizing local public access points to the water.

Letter to the Editor — By Maureen Egan — I read with interest in the Narragansett Times of April 5, 2019 the controversy of surfers being able to park along the street, at Pilgrim and Conant Avenues in the Point Judith section of the town . The Egan family, both immediate and extended had the pleasure of living on the corner of Louse and Calef Avenues since the 1940’s. Unfortunately we were forced to sell this prime property in 2004 …

By Tim Riel — Case could be a harbinger of things to come in area. The town is being asked to reverse a decision from September that relinquished its rights to Bell Lane, a paper road that has been used as shoreline access for decades.

By Josh Eagle — Over the past few decades, landowners have tried to use the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments to fully privatize the upper, dry-sand part of the beach. If these efforts were to succeed…

By Kathy Leonard Czepiel — Connecticut has 253 miles of shoreline, but in the late 1960s only seven miles of it were accessible to the public. That rankled activist Ned Coll, and he set out to do something about it.

By Andrew W Kahrl — America's beaches are for everyone. Let's keep them that way.

By Todd Corayer — Narragansett Bay is teeming with stripers. It’s easy to access them from beaches, breakwalls and kayaks, from river mouths to the upper Bay and the Taunton River…

By Alex Kuffner — In a bid to reduce the potential damage from flooding caused by storm surges, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has put forward a $58.6-million plan that would largely be funded through taxpayer money to lift up 341 private structures on the Washington County coast.

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…

By Benjamin Branchaud — James Bedell enjoys classical music and long walks on the beach… In fact, Bedell, a local shoreline access advocate and member of the town’s waterfront advisory, has walked most of Rhode Island’s 400 miles of coastline.

By Frank Carini — Political influence has eroded enforcement of Rhode Island’s environmental laws, creating a system that puts complying businesses at an economic disadvantage and rewards polluters. Enforcement alone, however, isn’t the solution to protecting the Ocean State’s priceless collection of natural resources.

By Jim Bedell — In discussing Rhode Island’s shore rights and privileges one must revisit the State v. Ibbison ruling… They were arrested for criminal trespass at the behest of the man whose property they were cleaning up — free of charge…

By Derek Gomes — The newly constructed Whale Rock Trail opens another portion of the state’s shoreline to public right-of-way…

By Bill Koch — With electricity restored and roads cleared throughout the town, the second phase of recovery from Hurricane Sandy has started to play out in piles of paperwork and daily briefings with officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

1994 VIDEO — A segment from Michael Moore's TV Nation (1994) in which correspondent Janeane Garofalo investigates the so-called public beaches of Greenwich, CT that are reserved only for residents of Greenwich.