After 119 years, an overdue library book, “An Elementary Treatise on Electricity,” was finally returned to the New Bedford Free Public Library in Massachusetts, according to The Associated Press. The New Bedford library has a 5-cent-per-day late fee. At that rate, someone returning a book overdue by 119 years would face a hefty fee of more than $2,100.

Here's some stuff to do this weekend after you return any library books:

Prepare for Halloween at AgInnovation Farm, which is looking for volunteers to help ready the farm's pumpkin patch.

Take a safari on a Ninigret Pond and learn about a variety of aquatic creatures living in Rhode Island's salt ponds.

Enjoy birds and beers with Norman Bird Sanctuary at Tilted Barn Brewery in Exeter, R.I.

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Finally, have you ever had a close encounter with wildlife? Gave a squirrel an acorn? Peeped a bear in your yard? If so, we want to hear about it. Please email Bonnie a 200-word description of what happened and how you felt about it. Send a pic if you've got one, but it's not required. We're encouraging you to share the joy of the natural world with our readers in a new feature, Close Encounters, which will appear regularly in this newsletter. Submissions from young people are especially welcome.

Despite the new shoreline access law being conceived by a special legislative commission made of Rhode Islanders, approved by lawmakers elected by Rhode Island voters, signed by the state’s 76th governor, and being an issue of state constitutionality, a group of self-identified special taxpayers bypassed state court with their lawsuit in hopes of getting a better ruling at the federal level.

It frames the law as an expansion of coastal access and a “taking” of private property. It refers to beachgoers who tread above the seaweed line as trespassers.

The entitled property owners say this state-sanctioned shoreline change “deprives them of their right to exclude non-owners from private beachfront property without just compensation.”

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The final Revolution Wind environmental impact statement presents seven alternative scenarios for the project, including Alternative G, the “preferred” alternative, which attempts to reduce the project’s impact on seafloor life, fisheries, and views of the wind turbines from land.

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