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Off the stacks
3/06/10 — Looking for an interesting place to go on a winter afternoon? If so, you may want to look into a film program offered by the Island Free Library. For several weeks, the library has featu...
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Island’s school-to-town ratio percentage smallest in the state
3/06/10 — The Block Island School’s proposed $4,466,586.27 budget for 2010-2011 ($4,343,459 requested from the town) comprises approximately 40 percent of the town’s entire proposed budget, which ...
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Deer season over, looking to next year’s hunting
3/06/10 — With the deer hunting season ending last week, the Deer Task force is already looking ahead to expand the time allowed for hunting on Block Island next season. The Town Council will disc...
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Conant takes fifth in state poetry competition
3/06/10 — Block Island School Junior Missy Conant came in fifth at the Rhode Island State Finals of Poetry Out Loud ( POL ), a national recitation contest. It was the first time an island student ...
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Town to televise Deepwater PUC hearings
3/06/10 — The town will televise the Public Utility Commission Hearings regarding the Deepwater/National Grid Power Purchase Agreement through the Polycom system at the Block Island School. The he...
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Contractors: lead certification required by next month
3/06/10 — Beginning April 22, 2010, Environment Protection Agency regulations will call for contractors whose renovation work disturbs lead based paint in residential housing and other child-occup...
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DICKINSON GETS GOLD
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3/06/10 — West Side Road summer resident Sibley Dickinson, 10, took home a gold medal in her age class in a Vermont Alpine Racing Association race February 27 at Quechee, VT, competing against race...
Elizabeth Mello Evans born
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3/06/10 — Kate Mello and Patrick Evans of West Lane are happy to announce the birth of their daughter Elizabeth Mello Evans. She was born February 6, 2010 weighing 7 pounds 14 ounces and she was 20...
Burger, Livingston engagement
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3/06/10 — Mr. and Mrs. Peter Burger of Wilton, Conn., and Block Island announce the engagement of their daughter, Katherine Elizabeth, to Jake Livingston of Raleigh, NC. He is the son of Tom Living...
Obituary: Paul Kane Smith, 97
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3/06/10 — Paul K. Smith of Glastonbury, Conn., died February 5. Paul, a long-time Glastonbury and Block Island resident, was the husband of the late Mary Jane Hagan Smith and the late Katharine Lan...
HOUSE GUESS
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02/27/10 — David Graham was the first to successfully name the Kelly house in last week’s paper. We also received correct guesses from Colby Lasorsa, Tristan Payne and Tom Mitchell. To submit a g...
COLORFUL CONTRAST
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02/27/10 - Artist David Chatowsky’s undersea mural set against a ferry parking lot snowbank before rain washed all the frozen stuff away. Photo by Dan West
HDC approves Aldo’s planter
by Dan West
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02/27/10 - Aldo’s Restaurant went before the Historic District Commission Monday night to resolve a zoning violation over a masonry planter the owners installed last summer. The planter was constr...

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