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Town Council tidies up
Renee Meyer
Sat, Jun 25
Category:
News
The Town Council did some end-of year housekeeping at its meeting on June 15. As the fiscal year comes to a close on June 30, Town Finance Director Amy Land led them though what she termed “annual exercises.” The first was to reassign expenditures that were “unplanned or greater than anticipated.”...
Conservation essential this summer
Renee Meyer
Sat, Jun 25
Category:
News
Both the Water and Sewer Departments adopted budgets for the upcoming fiscal year that starts July 1 at their annual financial meetings on Monday, June 20. Both budgets anticipate increases in revenues from user fees, mainly as a result of increased usage throughout the year, but on the sewer side...
Vehicle restrictions in effect for returning piping plovers
Sat, Jun 25
Category:
News
The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in cooperation with the Town of New Shoreham, has implemented a temporary closure of the beach beyond the North Light trail to off-road vehicles due to the impending hatch of piping plover chicks. Those with a Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) permit...
The importance of naloxone
Dr. Thomas Warcup
Sat, Jun 25
Category:
News
Now in its second decade, the opioid epidemic has claimed more than 800,000 lives in the United States. This is more deaths than in all U.S. wars and armed conflicts combined “from the Revolutionary War to the present,” according to the article “The Opioid Crisis – Not Just Opioids Anymore,” by...
Savannah Catherine Brown earns Dean’s List at Providence College
Sat, Jun 25
Category:
News
Savannah Catherine Brown, daughter of Jennifer Brady of Block Island, R.I. and Robert Brown of Block Island, R.I., has earned Dean’s List honors at Providence College for the spring 2022 semester. Dean’s List honors are earned by fulltime undergraduate students who, at the end of the semester, have...
Deadline to run for town offices nearing
Sat, Jun 25
Category:
News
The filing period to declare candidacy for town elections is coming up. Declaration forms, which can be found on the Town of New Shoreham’s new website, should be filed with the Town Clerk’s office. The Declaration of Candidacy filing period is Monday, June 27, through Wednesday, June 29. The Town...
BIMI Tuesday Night Talks start June 28
Sat, Jun 25
Category:
News
The first BIMI Tuesday Talk of the 2022 season will feature Alyson McCann from the University of Rhode Island discussing private well-water safety on Block Island, and why, how, and when to get your well water tested. This free workshop will enable you to take informed action to test and protect...
Island bids farewell to Deacon Steve Hester
Chris Crawford
Fri, Jun 24
Category:
News
Through three long and loud ovations at the 10 a.m. Mass at St. Andrew Catholic Church on June 19, Deacon Steve Hester and his wife Laura signed off after a four-year parish engagement here on Block Island, with one last homily. Hester has accepted a position with a large parish in Lexington,...
Laura Baross to exhibit at the Spring Street Gallery
Fri, Jun 24
Category:
News
Artist Laura Baross will exhibit her work at the Spring Street Gallery with an opening reception on Saturday, June 25, from 5 to 7 p.m. Laura is a visual artist specializing in interior design, ceramics, and photography. She recently opened a shop on Chapel Street called Studio DWC. “I love to...
Conservation organizations advise public of recent waterbird deaths on Rhode Island Coast
Fri, Jun 24
Category:
News
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM), and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) are advising the public of recent waterbirds (gulls, cormorants, shearwaters, terns, seabirds, shorebirds) found dead along the Rhode Island coast. A relatively...
Island sees increase in opioid overdoses
Renee Meyer
Fri, Jun 17
Category:
News
With summer comes the always-jarring increase in mopeds behaving badly, blaring ambulances roaring through town, and increased helicopter activity for medical evacuations at the Block Island State Airport. With the influx of workers and visitors, this is not unexpected, but still a dramatic change...
Land Trust discusses next steps for “Overlook”
Renee Meyer
Fri, Jun 17
Category:
News
A few weeks ago when the subject of the “Overlook Property” came up in a Town Council meeting, Councilor Martha Ball remarked that the newly acquired property should be called something else because the town, and the Block Island Land Trust had not bought the part of the property with the building...
Deadline to run for town offices nearing
Fri, Jun 17
Category:
News
The filing period to declare candidacy for town elections is coming up. Declaration forms, which can be found on the Town of New Shoreham’s new website, should be filed with the Town Clerk’s office. The Declaration of Candidacy filing period is Monday, June 27, through Wednesday, June 29. The Town...
Tourism Council funds several community projects, tables Visitor Center request
Renee Meyer
Fri, Jun 17
Category:
News
With last year’s boom in tourism, the Block Island Tourism Council has been able to be generous this year in meeting requests for funding from various groups on the island. Expecting declines in tourism at the onset of the Covid pandemic, the Tourism Council adjusted its revenue expectations...
Frank DiBiase III of The Atwells Group appointed to 2022 RIHA Board of Directors
Fri, Jun 17
Category:
News
The Rhode Island Hospitality Association (RIHA) is proud to announce the appointment of Block Island resident Frank DiBiase III to its 2022 Board of Directors. DiBiase is a business development representative and food and beverage director for The Atwells Group, which includes three successful...
Block Island celebrates the Class of 2022 in grand style
Chris Crawford
Fri, Jun 17
Category:
News
Originally released by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and since copied by many others, “Have you ever Seen the Rain” is about the calm before the storm. The narrator predicts this will result in a sun shower, an uncommon weather phenomenon in which the sun is shining, but it’s raining. That metaphor...
Glass Float Project attracting people from all over the country this year
Renee Meyer
Fri, Jun 17
Category:
News
It’s difficult to tell how a marketing campaign is going. Or is it? Block Island Tourism Council Director Jessica Willi has been experimenting with a service that tracks the council’s internet ads and then can determine if the person has subsequently visited the island or a shop or restaurant here...
Our front page photo this week
Fri, Jun 10
Category:
News
For those lucky enough to see it, there was a whale swimming off Block Island on June 6. Photographer Malcolm Greenaway captured this pictured, called “Whale Swimming Off Water Street” from Mansion Beach.
Council appoints interim police chief
Renee Meyer
Fri, Jun 10
Category:
News
Town Manager Maryanne Crawford announced that Captain Peter Chabot of the Rhode Island State Police has been selected to serve as interim police chief on Block Island. The New Shoreham Town Council acted on his appointment at its meeting on Monday, June 6, affirming the decision 4 to 0. Councilor...
Water company turns on the tap ...sort of
Renee Meyer
Fri, Jun 10
Category:
News
The Block Island Joint Water and Sewer Commissions have been able to issue water allocations to two applicants that were denied previously due to lack of available capacity during the months of June and July. “I’ve thought about this a lot,” said Water Superintendent John Breunig. “My thoughts are...
Your package is coming
Chris Crawford
Fri, Jun 10
Category:
News
A recent kerfuffle between Amazon.com and the United States Post Office had Block Islanders worried that their packages might not get delivered, but that is not the case. Amazon has contracts with UPS, FedEx and the Post Office for delivery to consumers and businesses nationally, along with their...
B.I. Lions Club honors one of their own
Renee Meyer
Fri, Jun 10
Category:
News
The Block Island Lions Club invited the community to Ball O’Brien Park on Sunday with the promise of free food and a surprise announcement. As people slowly ambled their ways up the hill to the picnic pavilion, Lions Club members set out a lunch of hot-dogs and hamburgers with Rob Closter at the...
Utility District’s new net-metering policy explained
BIPCo President Jeffery Wright
Mon, Jun 6
Category:
News
In 2019, the Block Island Utility District (BIUD) reached the state-mandated three-percent cap on net metered projects and was forced to shut down the net metering program. Reaching the cap was accelerated by the creation of the Block Island Solar Initiative. They installed more than 20 systems on...
Utility District’s new net-metering policy explained
BIPCo President Jeffery Wright
Mon, Jun 6
Category:
News
In 2019, the Block Island Utility District (BIUD) reached the state-mandated three-percent cap on net metered projects and was forced to shut down the net metering program. Reaching the cap was accelerated by the creation of the Block Island Solar Initiative. They installed more than 20 systems on...
Sewer repairs disrupt business briefly
Renee Meyer
Fri, Jun 3
Category:
News
Last fall, routine inspections of sewer pipes on Block Island revealed some new problems: leaking pipes, especially in areas around Bridgegate Square. The leaks weren’t so bad that sewage was leaking out of them, rather groundwater was leaking into them. The solution? Re-line the pipes with an...
R.I. to fund State Police presence on B.I. this summer
Renee Meyer
Fri, Jun 3
Category:
News
Rhode Island Governor Dan McKee offered state funding to pay for the presence of two state police troopers on Block Island this summer, as well as a third trooper to serve as an interim chief of police. The announcement was made in response to a question posed to McKee in a general press conference...
The vision of Mary Donnelly
Alison Warfel, Block Island Medical Center
Fri, Jun 3
Category:
News
It’s easy to imagine what a monumental adventure it must have felt like when Mary D came to Block Island in the late 1950s. After all, that island was not the Block Island of today. The population during that period had dipped to about 500, less than half the number of year-round residents today...
Block Island piano students rate all “A’s” at Ratings Festival
Carrie Todd
Fri, Jun 3
Category:
News
On Saturday May 21, six young island pianists attended the annual Rhode Island Solo and Ensemble Ratings Festival at Ponaganset High School. This festival, attended by over 2,000 music students from Rhode Island, gives the students an opportunity to perform a composition they have learned and be...
Hurricanes Softball goes to the playoffs
Chris Crawford
Fri, Jun 3
Category:
News
The Hurricanes High School Softball team traveled up to Shea-Tolman in Pawtucket for a Rhode Island Interscholastic League playoff game last week, their first since 2018. Facing a school with a combined enrollment of 1800 students proved overpowering but the Hurricanes never gave up and had many...
A young team in building mode
Chris Crawford
Fri, Jun 3
Category:
News
The Hurricanes Varsity Baseball team ran into a pitching machine Saturday in the fog at Heinz Field, and the machine won. With precision and remarkable accuracy, Putnam threw nothing but blazing strikes past the very young Block Island team, which this year is made up of many eighth graders facing...
Police Chief Moynihan stuns with sudden resignation
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 27
Category:
News
Block Island was a bit stunned to learn that Police Chief Matthew Moynihan resigned on Tuesday, May 24. Some who work at Town Hall told The Times they only started hearing “rumors” about it that same day, and Town Manager Maryanne Crawford said she received his resignation at 12:30 p.m. and had not...
Take them down says Historic District Commission
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 27
Category:
News
“No redeeming architectural qualities,” was the quick conclusion of Mike Ballard at the Historic District Commission meeting on Monday, May 23. The application before the Commission was from Tiger Fish owners Ross and Brenna Audino for approval of the construction of pergolas on the front deck of...
Broadband work to go underground for summer
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 27
Category:
News
Crews performing aerial work for the island-wide broadband installation will be largely pausing their work on main roads in mid-June for the summer due to traffic and safety concerns. For the past couple weeks, crews have been trying to beat the rush by concentrating in the downtown areas...
Comedy returns to Yellow Kittens
Fri, May 27
Category:
News
Comedy night returns to Yellow Kittens with headliner Jenny Zigrino on Sunday, May 29. Zigrino is a Los Angeles-based comedian that came up performing in Boston and has gone on to do great things in comedy. She has appeared on Conan O’Brien an impressive four times. Zigrino has also been a featured...
Comedy returns to Yellow Kittens
Fri, May 27
Category:
News
Comedy night returns to Yellow Kittens with headliner Jenny Zigrino on Sunday, May 29. Zigrino is a Los Angeles-based comedian that came up performing in Boston and has gone on to do great things in comedy. She has appeared on Conan O’Brien an impressive four times. Zigrino has also been a featured...
Sewer shut-off around Bridgegate Square June 1 and 2
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 27
Category:
News
The New Shoreham Sewer Department has announced a sewer shut-off for Wednesday, June 1, and Thursday June 2 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the area in and around Bridgegate Square. This is required while workers from National Water Main Cleaning Company of Boston re-line the leaking sewer pipes in the...
Block Island mourns the loss of Mary Donnelly
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 20
Category:
News
“I just hope they remember me as a good person,” Mary Donnelly said once in an interview broadcast on national news. Of course, on Block Island Mary D. is being remembered as much more. She is regularly called an angel, a savior, a saint, an icon. When the news broke last week that Mary had passed...
Planning Board sails through several applications
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 20
Category:
News
The new owners of Island Home, a 10-room inn on Beach Avenue wish to demolish it and its accompanying accessory structure. “It’s far from restoration,” said Frank DiBiase, Jr., “representing” the owner, 585 Beach Ave LLC, at the Planning Board’s meeting on April 13, where the application for...
Planning Board crafts changes to promote housing
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 20
Category:
News
The Planning Board made significant progress last week in crafting draft changes to the zoning regulations on section 513 accessory apartments but got bogged down in the details when it came to some of the more novel changes. The meeting came a couple of days after the Planning Board had held what...
The Wrackline
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 20
Category:
News
Block Island experiencing a Covid breakout The past couple of weeks have seen a dramatic rise in positive Covid cases. The R.I. Department of Health had the island’s cumulative case count since the start of the pandemic up by four cases in the week of May 8, but anecdotally, the number who have...
Saturday’s Shad Bloom 10K kicked off the racing season on Block Island
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 20
Category:
News
It was foggy, it was clear, it was hot, it was cold, but the Shad Bloom 10K Run on Saturday May 14 was glorious. There were 179 participants and 140 finishers for what Recreation Director Dave Sniffen called the prettiest race course in the east. So, he told them, don’t just look down while you’re...
Full Circle: Block Island to Taiwan
Benjamin Hruska
Fri, May 20
Category:
News
In 2018 I visited Taiwan and completed an intellectual journey that commenced in 2003 as a summer intern at the Block Island Historical Society. While completing my Masters degree program I spent a summer at the island’s museum located at Bridgegate Square. I assisted in a number of ways, however...
Block Island Community Sailing looks forward to season
Henry duPont
Fri, May 20
Category:
News
Block Island Community Sailing, Inc. (BICS), the island’s educational, nonprofit community sailing organization, is preparing for a busy sailing season this summer. BICS, based at the New Harbor Boat Basin (near the Oar Restaurant) is a membership-based adult and family sailing organization that...
Class of 2022 presents Senior Projects to the island community
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 13
Category:
News
One of the last hurdles a Block Island School student will jump over is the Senior Project, and it’s a long jump. The Senior Project is a graduation requirement in most Rhode Island public schools. (In about 2007, schools could choose two graduation requirements out of three as required by the...
Time to redecorate the fiber arts tree
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 13
Category:
News
Two years ago, island resident Sue Black had an idea – enlist local people who knit or crochet to collaborate on a fiber arts project. People were asked to make small orange squares that would be sewn together to form a large monarch butterfly. At what would now be considered the onset of the Covid...
Island kids embracing martial arts
Chris Crawford
Fri, May 13
Category:
News
Martial Arts develops a certain
je-nesais-quois
confidence that transcends sport. And Block Island has flocked to the chance to learn from a master with classes overflowing with eager students. It is a mindset that is quickly and invisibly applied to life’s many daily challenges. It...
Anderson honored as Preceptor of the Year
Fri, May 13
Category:
News
Block Island Health Services would like to congratulate Nurse Practitioner, Laurie Anderson, APRN-C, CDOE, on being selected as the University of Saint Joseph Physician Assistant Studies Program’s Class of 2022 Preceptor of the Year. This honor recognizes a clinician with extraordinary dedication...
Police Advisory Commission conducting community survey
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 13
Category:
News
The Police Advisory Commission is extending its Community Needs Survey for the next five weeks. Initially the survey was offered on the Block Island Bulletin Board, and notices were posted in various places around town, but the response was thin. To garner more responses, a link to the survey will...
Planning Board tackles amending ordinances
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 13
Category:
News
The Planning Board also took up the subject of affordable and attainable housing at its meeting on Monday, May 9. As opposed to the workshop the Town Council held, this meeting mainly focused on specific language housing advocate Chris Warfel had proposed to amend section 513 of the zoning...
Town Council leads workshop on housing
Renee Meyer
Fri, May 13
Category:
News
The Town Council held a workshop on Wednesday, May 4 on the subject of housing. The need for more affordable and attainable housing has been an issue for decades, and while the town and the not-for-profit Block Island Economic Development Foundation have made strides over the years, the most recent...
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