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Thu, Jun 17

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It takes a village to raise a child and on Block Island we are fortunate to be able to provide our students with internships and hands-on experience. Individuals have allowed students to explore career goals, develop professional working relationships, all while getting an in-depth perspective on...
Show of snow-white flowers

Thu, Jun 17

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To the Editor, I recently saw an article in The Times that indicated that Councilman Risom had witnessed a singular event, that he had apparently never witnessed on Block Island. He stated something about witnessing the police chief directing traffic at the ferry for the first time ever...
Show of snow-white flowers

Thu, Jun 17

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To the Editor, Perhaps most “islanders” and visitors noticed the outstanding display of the white flowering Japanese Rose – better known as the multiflora rose. Back in the 1940s and the early 50s this was touted and advertised as a “living hedge,” recommended by the United States Conservation...
What’s next?

Thu, Jun 17

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The following was copied to The Block Island Times Dear Town Council Members: We are co-owners and longtime residents of 561 Center Road, just down the hill from the airport, and one of our neighbors recently brought to our attention the Rhode Island Airport Corporation’s plans...
Lasting implications for growth

Thu, Jun 17

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To the Editor, From “Silas Marner,” written in 1861 by George Eliot: “The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which...
Tide Clock appreciated

Thu, Jun 17

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To the Editor, We want to thank The Committee for the Great Salt Pond, and others, for installing the tide clock within the information kiosk at the Andy’s Way beach entrance. What a novel idea! And...a big thanks to those brave souls who cut back the ‘embracing arms’ of the poison ivy along the...
No answers

Thu, Jun 10

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To the Editor, Thank you for your article about RIAC in the June 5, 2021 edition. RIAC has a net operating income of over $20,000,000 and a net worth of over $350,000,000. They are a public agency charged with operating all Rhode Island airports – and they do quite well financially despite the...
Block Island Yacht Club Creative Writing Contest

William Young

Fri, Jun 4

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To the Editor, The Block Island Yacht Club Creative Writing Contest had another great year despite the circumstances, and I want to thank everyone who helped make it a success. First I want to thank the BIYC members for supporting the contest with their financial contributions; we did not have a...
Take down the fence

Steve McQueeny

Fri, Jun 4

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To the Editor, Your story on the continuing restoration of the Southeast Lighthouse was enlightening. (The Block Island Summer Times, June 2021.) By the time the project is completed millions of dollars and more than twenty-five years will have been spent. Unfortunately it almost impossible for...
Next blood drive

Peter Greenman

Fri, Jun 4

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To the Editor, The results of our last blood drive are very encouraging. The manager from the Rhode Island Blood Center says: “The efforts of the Block Island community are greatly appreciated and their support of the community blood program will go a long way toward replenishing blood supplies...
Balancing interests

Lisa Sprague

Fri, May 28

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To the Editor, I feel compelled to respond to “Bill Billings” (a pseudonym) letter in the May 15, 2021 issue of The Times. About RespectBI... RespectBI is a grassroots organization formed in the summer of 2020 in response to a way of life that went way out of control with increased traffic,...
Some thoughts from a Covid survivor

Ann Tickner

Fri, May 21

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Each of us has many identities. Three of mine are retired professor of world politics, feminist scholar, and COVID survivor. This is a story about putting all three together. When feminists want to talk about a big picture, in this case world politics, they usually start with a little picture,...
More on Financial Town Meeting

PS Wood

Fri, May 21

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To the Editor, There is much to applaud in Melanie Blane Wilk’s letter (and now Everett’s) concerning the vote at the recent Financial Town Meeting. In it, she examined at considerable length the controversial purchase of the “Overlook” property, paid for in part with local taxes on top of...
Preserving historic buildings

Scenic Block Island

Fri, May 21

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To the Editor Last week’s Block Island Times ran a front page story about the Captain Willis House (circa 1877). The Captain Willis House will be torn down and replaced with a larger home. Block Island is certainly well known for its pristine beaches, boating, and preserved land. However, we would...
Honoring Block Island

Kay and Keith Lewis

Fri, May 21

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To the Editor, With the approach of Memorial Day, thoughts turn to Legion Park, a place that commemorates so much Block Island history. It also played a key role in 2021 as our front line workers—the medical center, the rescue squad, fire department, police, and the American Legion—all did a superb...
More than mopeds...

Fri, May 14

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To the Editor: About RespectBI... Years ago the land from the Seaside expansion up to the Ernst property and down to Chapel Street was owned by Maria and Aldo Leone. Said land was donated to town by them to create Weldon’s Way and then their son Leo Leone and his beloved wife Lori Leone donated the...
RIAC has Block Island in its sights, once again

Fri, May 14

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To the Editor, The Rhode Island Airport Corporation is planning to impose a costly airport parking program at the Block Island and Westerly State Airports with no notice to the flying public as is required by RI State law. The parking program will include signage that will instruct anyone driving...
Re: Melanie Wilk’s letter in last weeks paper

Fri, May 14

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To the Editor Dear Sir, It was with great consternation that I read that letter from Melanie Wilk! She stated clearly, and with heartfelt feeling, just exactly how I have felt for many years after I came back to the island after spending twenty years away in the USN. I also come from a long line of...
Uncovering history

Fri, May 7

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To the Editor, In my opinion, Block Island’s greatest all-time gifts are the 350 miles of stone walls and its gorgeous topography. Unhappily, most of the walls are totally hidden from view. In 1982 when we bought our house, the home inspector outside, with deed in hand, said: “You’re supposed to...
Too many poles

Fri, May 7

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To the Editor, As I drove around the island recently, delighted by the colorful arrival of spring, the contrarian in me found fault with what took my eye: telephone poles. No longer just the single gray sticks that used to serve, but a new breed, some shoulder to shoulder with the sawed off stumps...
What was the thought process?

Fri, May 7

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To the Editor, My name is Melanie Blane Wilk. For those who don’t really know me, my roots run very deep here as both my maternal and paternal heritage goes back for many, many generations on the island. I have lived on Block Island all my life (so far) and have been witness to the many changes...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fri, Apr 30

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Blood Drive May 6 To the Editor, Our next blood drive, the third this year, will be held at the Harbor Church on Thursday, May 6 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. With warmer weather on our side, we look forward to topping our January and March drives. All you need do is make an appointment and then there...
Hope and spring

Fri, Apr 23

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To the Editor, After seeing Kerri Gaffett’s article “Hope, and spring, is in the air,” (BI Times, April 17, 2021), I was gladdened to find the accompanying photo of her dog, Winston. I was yet again reminded of the benevolence he extended to me—the soulful look in his eyes—as I struggled to lay my...
Not-so-mellow yellow

Fri, Apr 23

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To the Editor, I wonder if other readers have noticed that the colors of spring appear more vivid than ever. The random explosions of forsythia more yellow than yellow; the “hosts of golden daffodils” putting Wordsworth’s verse to shame; the magnolia by my barn an impossible cloud of blossoms;...
Still having fun

Fri, Apr 23

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To Block Island friends – here and off island, If you live on Block Island and want to have some fun, celebrate your 92nd birthday here. Whew! - it has been such fun. It started on April 13, and continues to this day. There is no way that I can express the joy and fun all of you showered on me...
Voters’ choice

Fri, Apr 23

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To the Editor: After months of work by the Town Council, the Land Trust, the Block Island Conservancy, and The Nature Conservancy, the Town Council voted at its meeting last night to put forward to the Financial Town Meeting a proposal to purchase the open space portion of what is commonly referred...
See you in court

Fri, Apr 23

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To the Editor, In spite of rebuff from Supreme Court, Champlin’s is still holding out for a backroom marina expansion approval. One would think that when the R.I. Supreme Court dismissed the Champlin’s/CRMC joint motion to the court to accept a CRMC approval for a secretly negotiated marina...
Housing search

Fri, Apr 16

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To the community, As you know, the Town of New Shoreham is in the process of hiring a police chief and I am reaching out to the community for housing options. We are looking for an affordable year-round house or apartment with two or three bedrooms, with a yard (I know it’s a tall order, but…). We...
BI Community Sailing welcomes new members for the 2021 sailing season

Fri, Apr 9

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Block Island Community Sailing, Inc. (BICS), the island’s educational, nonprofit community sailing organization, is looking forward to a full sailing season this summer including the launching and availability of our four sailboats which include two Raven 24s, a Soling, and our newly donated and...
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Fri, Apr 9

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Housing anyone? To the community, As you know, the Town of New Shoreham is in the process of hiring a police chief and I am reaching out to the community for housing options. We are looking for an affordable year-round house or apartment with two or three bedrooms, with a yard (I know it’s a tall...
Letters to the Editor

Thu, Apr 1

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Budgeting for hard times To the Editor, I know I should attend more Town Council meetings to ask the following questions. My excuse is I’m getting old, forgetful, and mindful of our shut in. Nevertheless, let me wonder why so often our taxes increase each year so much more than the inflation rate...
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Thu, Mar 25

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Point, counterpoint To the Editor, Mr. Douglas Gasner is absolutely correct. Approximately 2,500 years before Hemingway, the writer of Ecclesiastes (in the Jewish Scriptures and the Christian Old Testament) wrote: “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh...the sun also ariseth,...
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Thu, Mar 18

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Beware empty threats To the Editor: During the March 4 Town Council meeting to vote to amend town ordinances on mopeds, Beth Noonan, attorney for the moped operators, made claims of “legal impermissibility” of the ordinances, and threatened to sue the town should the ordinances pass. #RespectBI’s...
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Thu, Mar 11

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Champlin’s agreement skirts environmental requirements To the Editor, As a year-round resident and member of the Shellfish Commission charged with protecting and enhancing Block Island’s shellfish resources, I find the December 7, 2020 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Coastal Resources...
Letters to the Editor

Thu, Mar 4

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Perhaps it is all about who you know To the Editor, I hate to think corruption is alive and well in Rhode Island government but what is one supposed to think when a public agency such as the Coastal Resources Management Council, whose mission is to preserve and protect the coastal resources of the...
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Thu, Feb 25

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Give blood March 4 To the Editor, The second blood drive of the year will take place on Thursday, March 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Harbor Baptist Church. Blood supplies are down as never before throughout the country. Covid is a major reason and the fierce winter storms, particularly in Texas...
Letters to the Editor

Thu, Feb 18

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Thank you to the community To the Editor, I would like to thank all those who came to my aid following my recent surgery. First to Doctor Warcup, who detected the need for heart specialists to move into action. To the surgeons and professionals at Rhode Island Hospital who expertly performed the...
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Thu, Feb 11

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“I gotta guy” To the Editor, More recent events in our “fair” state make one feel like the character out of the 1976 film “Network” who shouted: “I am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore!” No wonder folks are of little faith when they witness inside deals becoming commonplace...
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Thu, Feb 4

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Thank you to BIPCo line crew To the Editor, Many thanks to the line crew of the Block Island Power Company for their diligence in restoring power to our neighborhood – Tom Durden, Jim Stockman, and Dave Milner. They were out there – and up there on the pole – during the peak of the storm, a...
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Thu, Jan 28

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Striking change of direction regarding Marina expansion To the Editor, I was particularly struck by CRMC’s 180-degree change of direction regarding its position relating to the Champlin’s Marina proposed expansion into The Great Salt Pond. After seventeen years of fighting Champlin’s proposed...
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Thu, Jan 21

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First Blood drive of the year a success To the Editor, What wonderful news! At our first blood drive of the year, we had 39 donors and 35 units of blood. We haven’t done that well for a long, long, time. While there is so much drear Covid news, it’s a relief to hear something so pleasant. And three...
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Thu, Jan 14

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Opposition groups not notified of discussions about Champlin’s deal To the Editor: The lead article in this paper last week was about the sale of Champlin’s Marina. Apparently, receiving a $25 million sum was not enough for Mr. Grillo and his partners in that they chose, on their way out of this...
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Thu, Jan 7

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It takes a village To the Editor, Happy New Year Block Island! I would like to take a moment to thank the many, many people who helped the Tourism Council with our holiday festivities this year. First, the “Tree Crew” who assemble and dis-assemble the tree (two times this year since it blew over in...
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Thu, Dec 31

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Thanks for a successful fundraiser Dear Block Island Community (and beyond!), Thank you for another successful fundraiser. With your generosity, I was able to raise $1,264 for the Block Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue Departments. I hope this money will be able to help them with all the important...
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Thu, Dec 24

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Heroes all To the Editor: Now that we’re almost at year’s end, it is a perfect time to look back. Everyone on the island was affected by the Covid crisis. As I look back, it seems we owe exceptional credit to many people and organizations. My list covers the biggest heroes — yours may be longer...
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Thu, Dec 17

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Take the Bucket Challenge for ALS To the Editor: Dear Block Island Residents: The Block Island Leo Club has been in charge of organizing the annual Polar Plunge for the past seven years. Every year it has been an activity we look forward to planning for the community. Unfortunately, this year the...
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Thu, Nov 26

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Testing for Covid-19 To the Editor: As you are aware, the New Shoreham Sewer Commission has been testing wastewater samples for any presence of Covid-19 since April of this year. Going back eight months at the start of the pandemic in the U.S, the Block Island community was on high alert. The...
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Thu, Nov 19

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Small business grants available To the Editor: I first want to thank you for your perseverance and commitment to the small business community during these unprecedented times. Small businesses play a critical role in the fabric of our state and my office wants to ensure you receive the support you...
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Thu, Nov 12

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Mourning a friend To the Editor: There are so many reasons to mourn the passing of Steve Draper. In this short tribute, I will dwell on just one aspect of his life. Though a quiet person, he did much to help the town run smoothly, with his service and technical knowledge relating to infrastructure...
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Thu, Nov 5

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The following was submitted to the members of the Town Council, Town Manager Maryanne Crawford and The Block Island Times: To the Editor: I would like to offer the following comment into the record about island traffic safety in general, and on Cooneymus Road and West Side Road...

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