After seven years in the restaurant business, Jason Viteri decided to open a restaurant that served food that he was used to eating at his parents’ home using his Ecuadorian heritage and cooking experiences.

This past summer, at the age of 22, Viteri opened La Balandra, a restaurant that focuses on South American cuisine located on Farewell Street, off Broadway, in Newport.

NEWPORT, R.I.-Jim Sharkey can still hear the deafening chants and shouts, still feel the acrid and frenzied air, and still see the fleeting silhouettes of thousands of Bostonians as they flooded the city streets in a riotous mob.

Sharkey witnessed the uncontrollable insurrection of Red Sox fans after the Beantown team won the 2003 American League Division Series (ALDS).

Christopher Kiernan, coordinator of the American Studies department and history professor at Salve, is extremely passionate about education. Not only has he worked in higher education for 40 years, but he was the first Northeast regional director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress – an ongoing project that monitors how students are performing at ages nine, 13, 17, and post-college groups.

Due to the abundance of rainy weather this season, the Salve women’s soccer team has had a tough year. With only two seniors, Captains Kate Leary and Kendra Lee, the team is very young, but still hold their own in the Commonwealth Conference with a record of 6-6.

When Greg Rosenthal graduated from Salve Regina University two years ago, he was eager to find a job. He was able to find one at Fidelity Investments in Marlboro, Mass. However, when he and his friends decided to move back to Newport, R.I.the summer after he graduated, he realized his commute, and the cost of gas, would take its toll.