Officials with the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, an independent state agency whose job is to help make that a reality, recently took the Globe on a tour of the coastline they are responsible for regulating.

Cunha’s confirmation was stalled by Senator Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican, who explained he did so as a “consequence” after the committee chairman cut Cotton off and forced a vote during a different nomination hearing eight months ago.

If this storm had come closer to New England and been stronger, we’d be dealing with a different story, but it’s just going to be too far out to sea to really provide any meaningful accumulation.

The Rhode Island Foundation will also give $100,000 to the new Healthy and Safe Providence Fund if corporate, institutional, and private donors commit $20,000 to it by Dec. 31.

Finalists will be selected by a panel of DMV staff by the end of February, and then Rhode Islanders will vote online to pick their favorite.

On Dec. 1, weathered coal tar oil breached the booms at National Grid’s $400 million Tidewater Landing site in Pawtucket, marking the second spill in the last month at the site.

The former FEMA administrator and acting secretary of homeland security is joining the board of directors for the Middletown-based Southeastern New England Defense Industry Alliance (SENEDIA).

The Coast Guard and Rhode Island first responders are searching Narragansett Bay Tuesday for a woman who was reported to have fallen overboard off the Prudence Island ferry late Monday, officials said.

Francis Emond of Pawtucket, R.I., was in his early 20s on Dec. 7, 1941. He was stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii, when suddenly a cascade of bombs and torpedoes bombarded his station aboard the USS Pennsylvania. “I remember a lot of action. A lot of different things were going on,” Emond said. “It took about a minute to realize all that. Then, we went to our battle stations and just [waited] to see what was going to happen to us.”