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Report of downed windsurfer yields no results
Mon, May 20
Category:
News
The Block Island Harbors Department and Coast Guard were on scene last night, May 19, to search for a possible windsurfer who was reported to have hit the water without coming up, but a lengthy search yielded no results. Harbormaster Steve Land said he received a call about 7:20 p.m. of a downed...
Dr. Clark resigns from Medical Center
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, May 17
Category:
News
Dr. Mark Clark, director of the Block Island Medical Center, has submitted a letter of resignation effective Nov. 1, 2019. The letter of resignation was dated May 1, 2019. Clark came to a facility rife with turmoil and economic instability, and oversaw a four-year period of increasing number of...
BIMI ChowdaFest
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
On Sunday, May 26, 2019 from 3 to 5 p.m., the ChowdaFest at the Block Island Maritime Institute is the place to be and be seen. It’s all about determining, by blind taste test and popular vote, the best chowda on Block Island. This year 12 restaurant competitors will put their best efforts into...
Dish off the Block: Catfish
By
Pam Gelsomini
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
The other day I was gazing into the case at the local fish market pondering what to make for dinner. The catfish looked pink and fresh. It is one of my favorite fishes to cook, in a multitude of ways, due to its forgiving texture and mild flavor. It also always sends a rush of memories back to me...
Housing Board seeks signatures on petition
By
Pat Tengwall
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
The Block Island Housing Board is preparing a petition urging the Rhode Island legislature to pass a bill that would allow more residents to qualify for affordable housing on the island. Housing Board members will be collecting voters’ signatures on the petition this weekend, and plan to present it...
Library featuring new outdoors program
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
A new outdoor children’s program has been launched by the Island Free Library. Called “Healthy Kids Inside & Out,” the program uses backpacks filled with a variety of educational tools aimed at getting kids outdoors to explore Block Island’s natural environment. It’s an interactive program...
Broadband committee starting to look ahead
By
Lars Trodson
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
As the members of the Block Island Broadband Committee put the finishing touches on the five-building Community Anchor Institution network, they are beginning to look ahead to the far more complex project of wiring the entire island. At its most recent meeting on Thursday, May 9, Town Finance...
Grid and Deepwater Wind/Ørsted ordered to reinstall their cables
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council has issued “an enforcement order” on both Deepwater Wind/
Ørsted
and National Grid to reinstall their cables at Block Island’s Town Beach. Both cables, which comprise the Block Island Wind Farm’s electrical transmission system, and were...
Staying at the top of the list
By
Lars Trodson
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
The members of the Block Island Motor Vehicles for Hire commission worked its way through a thorny issue at its most recent meeting, after an individual who had moved to the top spot of the waiting list for a new license asked if she could defer getting one of the available licenses without losing...
Surf and Gables applications approved
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
The Historic District Commission granted unanimous approvals at a special meeting Monday night to the developer of the Surf Hotel and Gables Inn properties, which are part of the new Block Island Beach House development. Lark Hotels purchased the historic properties on Dodge Street and is going...
Utility District gets down to business
By
Renée Meyer
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
Customers of the Block Island Power Company may not have noticed any changes with the recent sale of its assets to the Block Island Utility District. The bills are the same, the rates are the same, and one still writes out their check to the Block Island Power Company. Even the ‘man behind the desk...
A Puerto Rico Diary
Islanders help another island rebuild
By
Pat Tengwall
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
Editor’s Note: Island residents and Harbor Church members Pat Tengwall and Dave Roosa traveled to Puerto Rico in March for a volunteer work project organized by the American Baptist Churches of Rhode Island (ABCORI). Their mission trip was part of the American Baptist denomination’s ongoing...
Water line work begins
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
The The following was issued by the Town Facilities Manager Sam Bird:
The Town has begun work on the water line installation on Champlin Farm Road. Weather and site conditions permitting we expect work will be completed within three weeks. Work will be performed 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on...
JV Hurricanes drop opener
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
On a rain-threatened day, with the wind gusting, the Junior Varsity Hurricanes baseball team displayed flashes of brilliance in the field but couldn’t muster an offensive attack, dropping its first game of the year 14-4 to a formidable Jamestown team. The visiting Hurricanes were listless at the...
Student show at the Spring Street Gallery
Thu, May 16
Category:
News
The following was submitted by art teacher Lisa Robb:
On Thursday, May 23, the Spring Street Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of Block Island High School students’ artwork. This show will be a survey of works produced by art students in grades eight through 12 and will include drawings...
(360 VIDEO)
Navigate the rocky shoreline to Vaill Beach
By
Cassius Shuman
Wed, May 15
Category:
News
(360 VIDEO) Navigate the rocky shoreline to journey to the water's edge at Vaill Beach on a pleasant May 15, courtesy of
The Block Island Times
. Temperatures were in the mid 50s and there wasn't much of a breeze. The Block Island Wind Farm can be seen in the distance. Vaill Beach is...
Rhode Island Launches Nation’s First Statewide Cybercrime Hotline
Wed, May 15
Category:
News
The following press release was sent to
The Block Island Times:
Congressman Langevin helped secure federal funding for the program that uses Rhode Island’s 2-1-1 infrastructure to help victims of identity theft, financial fraud, and other crimes.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. —...
Ginni Collins celebration
Mon, May 13
Category:
News
On behalf of friends and family, please join us for a celebration of life of Virginia Collins, our beloved Ginni, this Saturday, May 18, 2019 at Club Soda from 1 to 4 p.m. Come share some good cheer, memories and stories.
Turning the Tide
Protecting the dunes
By
Rosemary Connelli
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
As we head into a bustling summer season, it is important to keep our coastal structures in mind — specifically the sand dunes. Sand dunes, or beach grass (
Ammophila breviligulata
), are mounds of sand formed by the wind and ocean, providing habitats and protection for plant and animal...
Mother’s Day 2019
What is a Mother?
By
Mrs. Hart’s kindergarten class
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
Mother’s Day 2019
What is a Mother?
By Mrs. Hart’s kindergarten class
Mother’s Day is this Sunday, May 12.
McKenna Mary Millikin
When there is a special party to go to, me and Mom and Mia make a special appetizer. We take freshly grown peppers from Mimi’s...
From a rotary phone to the internet: Guttierez retires after 36 years
By
Lars Trodson
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
Marsha Guttierez can tick off some incredible numbers: 12 superintendents, five guidance counselors, seven special education directors, eight principals, and uncountable number of boat rides to and from the island, and hundreds of students. Those are just some of the statistics that mark her more...
Voters approve $15 million town budget at FTM
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
Shortly after 7 p.m. on Monday night in the Block Island School’s cafeteria, Town Moderator Molly O’Neill tested the microphone at the dais to see if anyone could hear her. After some adjustments were made, O’Neill began rattling off the language imbued in the Town of New Shoreham’s warrant for the...
With funds scarce, Chamber looks for help
By
Lars Trodson
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
Having had a request to fund up to two independent employees to assist with tourist needs during the busy summer months turned down by the Town Council and the voters of New Shoreham, the Chamber of Commerce is looking to the Tourism Council for those funds. After voters at the Financial Town...
Visitor’s Center funding falls one vote short
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
With a show of hands during Monday’s Financial Town Meeting in the Block Island School’s cafeteria the town’s registered voters fell one vote short (30-31) of authorizing the Town of New Shoreham to allocate $20,000 for funding seasonal staff at the Visitor’s Center in Old Harbor. The Chamber of...
NAMI Wellness Weekend to focus on kids
By
Gloria Redlich
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
Members of the island’s local mental health task force — NAMI-BI — are putting the final touches on their third annual conference in observance of May as Mental Health Month. With the first two events centering respectively on the opioid crisis and depression, the focus this year is on the well-...
Senior projects demonstrate wide range of interests
By
Lars Trodson
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
What does it take to put together the electrical system of a motorcycle? For that matter, what does it take to put together an entire motorcycle? Do you know the difference between a barber and a hair stylist? What goes into making a sweet smelling perfume? These questions, and many more, were...
Council considering use of consent agenda
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
The New Shoreham Town Council is exploring ways to make its meetings more efficient, which could include use of a consent agenda to better utilize the time of the councilors and the public. The topic was discussed at the Town Council’s May 7 meeting, when council members were considering possible...
Seniors seeking legislative clout
By
Lars Trodson
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
Almost everyone in the room had a story of having to care for an elderly parents or relative. Some of the stories were happy ones, others were not. But now the people telling the stories about their parents find themselves facing the same dilemma: who is going to care for them when they can no...
Pavilion celebrates 20 years
By
Kim Gaffett
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
It is time for the annual Earth Mothers’ Day and Pavilion Celebration. On Sunday, May 12, at 11:15 a.m., all are welcome to join a community gathering at the Ocean View Foundation Pavilion, off Water Street. This event will be the 20th annual Pavilion Celebration. And, as always, this will be an...
Local student soars like an eagle
Thu, May 9
Category:
News
An Eagle Scout Court of Honor is being held for Luke Brown this Saturday, May 11 at 1 p.m. at the Harbor Church. All are welcome. Left to right, Eagle Board of Review member Jonathan Berry, Eagle David Lewis, Eagle John Breunig, Eagle Luke Brown, Narragansett Council Commissioner Marcia Kenyon, and...
360 VIDEO
Journey to Mansion Beach
By
Cassius Shuman
Wed, May 8
Category:
News
(360 VIDEO) Journey down a sandy path to Mansion Beach on a beautiful summer-like May 8, courtesy of
The Block Island Times
. Temperatures were hovering in the high 50s with a gusting breeze. (Pause or click and drag the video around for different perspectives.) This video content is the...
Shellfish licenses renewal date
Mon, May 6
Category:
News
Sent in by the Harbors Department:
New resident shellfish licenses do not expire until after May 15. Anyone interested in renewing a license should come in to the Harbors Department office after May 15 . Shellfish licenses will be sold starting May 15, 2019, Monday through Friday, from 1...
Financial Town Meeting is Monday, May 6
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, May 3
Category:
News
There will be no big-ticket items on the docket for voters to ponder over at this year’s Financial Town Meeting. The last time that happened was in 2016, when there were no additional borrowing authorizations on the warrant. Last year voters approved the $2 million West Beach stabilization project...
Council supporting new hotel tax legislation
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, May 3
Category:
News
Rhode Island’s tourism districts are fighting for one singular formula for distributing hotel tax revenue in the state with newly introduced legislation. Per legislation that passed in the general assembly in 2015, the state’s Tourism Councils were excluded from collecting taxes from the hotel...
Golden Grove, locale of many memories, is condemned
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, May 3
Category:
News
The old structure known as Golden Grove, modest palace to a generation of Block Island memories, has been condemned. According to Building Official Marc Tillson, his decision to condemn the building has as much to do with the condition of the structure as it does with the kinds of activities that...
Cherry Hill Lane RFPs to be re-issued
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, May 3
Category:
News
With members of the Housing Board gathered to open construction bids for the proposed Cherry Hill Lane affordable housing subdivision, an unhappy board Chair Cindy Pappas had some unhappy news for those assembled: “Unfortunately, our agenda has changed,” Pappas said. “We have received some bids,...
(360 VIDEO) Journey down Champlin’s Marina
By
Cassius Shuman
Tue, Apr 30
Category:
News
(360 VIDEO) Take a walk on the Champlin's Marina dock in New Harbor on a sunny April 29, courtesy of
The Block Island Times
. Temperatures were in the low 50s with a slight breeze. (Pause or click and drag the video around for different perspectives.) This video content is the proprietary...
Passover: A reminder of hard-won freedoms
By
Gloria S. Redlich
Fri, Apr 26
Category:
News
Passover ends on Saturday evening, April 27.
Passover 2019 arrives this year just as the daffodils and forsythia burst into bloom and for many of us after a long collective winter of discontent. The ancient holiday observed by Jews across the globe began this year at sundown on April 19,...
New group to focus on micro-businesses
By
Lars Trodson
Thu, Apr 25
Category:
News
A new collaborative that hopes to bring artists and craftspeople together has quietly popped its head up in the past week. On Island Collaborative is offering the very first in what it hopes will eventually be a series of workshops offered in public spaces focusing on a variety of different crafts...
Grid to deploy buoys, again, and maybe again
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, Apr 25
Category:
News
,
B.I. Wind Farm
There will be a field of buoys off the Town Beach this summer, and possibly next summer, as National Grid determines a plan for reinstalling a section of its exposed cable. An early estimate to reinstall the cable is about $10 million, but it is not known who would be footing the bill for the work...
Parking lot project underway
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, Apr 25
Category:
News
The plan of creating a berm flanked by old telephone poles to separate the south parking lot from Corn Neck Road at the Town Beach has been getting some poor reviews. Small piles of dirt contained within two rows of old poles did not sit well with passersby. One caller (out of several) to
The...
Downtown buildings undergo signage rebranding
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, Apr 25
Category:
News
Finn’s restaurant and the Harbor Grill in Old Harbor will be getting newly rebranded signage on their façades. Jessica Wronowski, in her second year as owner of Finn’s Restaurant, presented her application for signage at Monday’s Historic District Commission meeting. Wronowski, who also owns Dead...
Filippi: Bills have ’shot of moving forward’
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, Apr 25
Category:
News
State Rep. Blake Filippi said the two pieces of legislation the town is pursuing in the Rhode Island General Assembly “have a shot at moving forward.” Filippi, Republican House Minority Leader, made that comment while speaking with
The Block Island Times
on Wednesday, April 17. He was...
Harbors Committee keeping an eye on pump out fees
By
Renée Meyer
Thu, Apr 25
Category:
News
The Harbors Committee revisited the subject of charging marinas for pump-out services at its meeting on Thursday, April 18. The initial idea was to charge an annual fee based on the gallonage pumped from boats at each private marina — data the Harbors Department has. They have estimated that 40...
Southeast Light getting its facelift
By
Lisa Nolan
Thu, Apr 25
Category:
News
Restoration work at Block Island’s historic and iconic Southeast Lighthouse is moving ahead. Since last September, Abcore Restoration Co. Inc. of Narragansett, R.I. has been on-site carefully bracing the lighthouse tower, preserving and restoring original cast-iron components on the lighthouse...
First kelp harvested out of the GSP
By
Lars Trodson
Thu, Apr 25
Category:
News
The wind was picking up, so much so that it was moving Catherine Puckett’s small boat around, making it even more difficult to pull up the line that was heavily weighted down with long strands of kelp. But pull up the line she did, over and over and over, until exhaustion took over. In the end,...
Count on PrintSource for quality and price
By
Michael Schroeder
Thu, Apr 25
Category:
News
If you have an idea for a printed piece – small or large, simple or complex, a lot or just a few – the PrintSource Group can handle job. They will guide you through the design process to the finished piece, and are experts in getting into the right hands through mailings that will save money and...
Eco double feature
Thu, Apr 25
Category:
News
The following was submitted by The Nature Conservancy and the Island Free Library:
Island Free Library and The Nature Conservancy’s April Film & Soup offering will be featuring two short documentaries (30 minutes each): “Smog of the Sea” and “Straws.” Watch these short films about the...
Happy Earth Day 2019
Mon, Apr 22
Category:
News
The Block Island Times
wishes you a Happy Earth Day!
Offshore wind developer pledges $4.5 million for Rhode Island
By
Cassius Shuman
Mon, Apr 22
Category:
News
,
B.I. Wind Farm
The following press release was sent to
The Block Island Times
on Monday:
PROVIDENCE, RI
- Governor Gina M. Raimondo announced today that Ørsted US Offshore Wind and Eversource – the team behind the Revolution Wind project – have pledged $4.5 million to support offshore...
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