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Connecting with the water
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Jul 6
Category:
News
The whole idea started out as an informal way to explore other islands. “We would all go to Shelter Island and meet there. It was more of a student exchange program,” said Block Island School teacher Shannon Cotter-Marsella, who was there at the beginning. Then, over time, it morphed into what it...
Heavy use causes outage
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Jul 6
Category:
News
There were several power outages on the island on Sunday, July 1, in the early evening. We asked Block Island Power Co. President Jeffery Wright about where the outages were and their causes.
Q. There was a power outage on Sunday night. Can you tell us the area or areas that were impacted?...
Harbors deploying new trash boat
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jul 6
Category:
News
The Harbors Department has deployed one of its boats to retrieve solid waste material from boaters spending time on the Great Salt Pond. Town Manager Ed Roberge disclosed that news at the June 28 Harbor Management Plan meeting. “I’m pleased that the Harbormaster has implemented a boat for...
Nature Conservancy addition approved
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jul 6
Category:
News
The Nature Conservancy will be upgrading its facilities on High Street; plans include building a new addition to the main building, and a storage shed, while removing a dilapidated cottage. The Historic District Commission granted unanimous (6-0) final approval for TNC’s project at its June 25...
“It Occurs To Me I Am America”
Fri, Jul 6
Category:
News
The following was submitted by Susan Bush of Island Bound Bookstore:
Come hear Block Island notables read short stories from the anthology, “It Occurs To Me That I Am America,” on Thursday, July 12 at 5 p.m. at Island Bound Bookstore. If you are an NPR Selected Shorts fan, you will want to...
Grant monies for Library
Fri, Jul 6
Category:
News
The following was submitted by the Island Free Library Board of Trustees:
The Island Free Library Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that it was awarded a Rhode Island Foundation Community Grant of $7,500 which, combined with local funding, will enable the creation and installation of...
Author to speak on wreck of the Palatine
Thu, Jul 5
Category:
News
Come learn more about Block Island’s very own maritime mystery. Author Jill Farinelli will tell the story at the Block Island Maritime Institute Center on BIMI Presents on Tuesday, July 10 at 7 p.m. Two days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia...
4th Quarter Honor Roll
Thu, Jul 5
Category:
News
Highest Honors
Luke Brown — Grade 11 Mary Conant — Grade 11 Fiona Crawford — Grade 11 Julia Gasner — Grade 11 Laura Johnson — Grade 11 Avery McGinnes — Grade 11 Mikhaela Brown-Padien — Grade 10 Charlotte Hall — Grade 10 Mathias Heinz — Grade 10 Moira O’Neill — Grade 10 Timothy Connor —...
Fireworks light up night sky
By
Cassius Shuman
Tue, Jul 3
Category:
News
There were chants of
“USA, USA, USA,”
from the porch at The Surf Hotel, where a crowd assembled on Monday night (July 2, 2018) to watch Block Island’s fireworks display. The fireworks exploded in the night’s sky over the ocean off of the Town Beach, with bursts of red, white and blue,...
New show at Spring Street Gallery opens Tuesday
Mon, Jul 2
Category:
News
Spring street Gallery is pleased to host featured guest artist, Sarah Warda's show titled “
Island Light.”
This show features award winning artist Sarah Warda's homage to the beauty that is Block Island
.
Since her early years, Sarah, a Connecticut resident, enjoyed summers and...
‘The locale is Celtic and the season Spring’
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
James Joyce is an author more revered than beloved, but readers, small in number though they may be, who take to the works are passionate about them indeed. A group of about 10 Joyce admirers gathered at the Island Free Library on Saturday, June 16, to read passages from Joyce’s most famous work, “...
MarMar moves to new location
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
A little box with a glass door contains one of the most popular items that MarMar sells: rooster feathers. Although the store is, as owner Martha “MarMar” Nardini calls it, a jewelry gallery, these sleek, colorful hair accessories have been a hit since she opened her doors almost a decade ago...
Former Fire Dept. treasurer charged with embezzling
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
Rhode Island State Police arrested the former treasurer of the Block Island Volunteer Fire Department after they say she embezzled almost $23,000. Kate Campanale, 36, of Old Saybrook, Conn., was arrested Thursday, June 28. Authorities say the investigation began in May 2018 when Block Island Police...
Buoys installed at Town Beach
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
,
B.I. Wind Farm
The New Shoreham Harbors Department deployed a dozen buoys off of the Town Beach today as part of National Grid’s efforts to protect its sea2shore transmission cable. The buoys were installed to designate a “no-anchor zone” to keep boaters away from the cable, where a 300-foot section of it has...
RIAC seeking to improve airport communication
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
Rhode Island Airport Corporation officials hope an impending change in management at the Block Island Airport will include improved communications between pilots and the management team, while also saying a new company will oversee such critical airport operations as parking planes. Three officials...
Burning boat causes some anxious moments
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
The Great Salt Pond was a scene of fire and smoke, veiled by a thick blanket of fog, on the night of Thursday, June 21, as a private boat caught fire and was completely destroyed. Harbormaster Steve Land said he was at the boat house working at 8:30 p.m. when he received a call about the fire. Land...
Helicopters still drawing complaints
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
Several Block Island residents took the opportunity during a meeting with Rhode Island Airport Corporation officials to reiterate their concern over noise generated by helicopter tours. However, the three RIAC officials who conducted the meeting said there was little they could do, provided that...
New Lyme vaccine in early trials
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
Scientists are stepping up efforts in the battle against Lyme disease. A new Lyme vaccine is undergoing its first phase of trials, which involves three stages of approval before the vaccine can be sold to the public. There is currently no clinically approved Lyme disease vaccine for humans...
New dinghy dock to be installed
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
There is good news for boaters venturing into Block Island’s New Harbor this summer season. A brand new public dinghy dock will soon be installed between Payne’s Dock and Dead Eye Dick’s restaurant. The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council approved plans for the dock at a public...
Wind Farm study: ‘Minimal negative impact’
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
,
B.I. Wind Farm
A University of Rhode Island researcher who has been studying the Block Island Wind Farm for the past year said there has been “minimal negative impact” from the wind farm on tourism and marine life. The wind farm, which sits three miles off the southeast coast of Block Island, has been operational...
Utility District to acquire BIPCo assets
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
The Block Island Power Company’s Board of Directors reached an important milestone on Thursday, June 21 when it voted to sell the assets of the company to the Block Island Utility District. “There’s no reason to go into closed session,” said BIPCo Chair Nancy Dodge. “This has been a long time...
North Lighthouse opens for 25th year
By
Pat Tengwall
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
Block Island's North Lighthouse is marking a double anniversary in 2018. The fourth-order Fresnel lens in the iconic structure at Sandy Point was first illuminated 150 years ago, on Sept. 15, 1868; and the maritime Interpretive Center on its ground floor first opened to the public 25 years ago, in...
Conservation Commission approves projects
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
Two projects sailed easily through the Conservation Commission at its most recent meeting. The first request came from Alexander and Karen Taylor of Plat 15, Lot 30-1, who wished to raise the height of an existing barn from 24 to 28 feet. The proposal requires a Special Use Permit and a variance to...
East Side Sunset
By
Martha Ball
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
,
Columnists
Y e sterday, or perhaps it was the day before, these long, green days meld together, especially when I turn off Mansion Road and head up across my front field, I had an epiphany. It was a summer cow pasture in my earliest memory, the garden protected from marauding beasts by a single strand of...
New photography at Spring Street
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
A collection of photographs by Tom Kalb will be on display at The Spring Street Gallery beginning Sunday, July 1 through July 11. The show is titled “Another Nature.” An opening reception will be held on Sunday, July 1 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Gallery. Kalb describes himself as “a black and white...
Block Island Race Week
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
Anneliese Slamowitz, a summer intern for
The Block Island Times,
participated as a crew member on Team Manitou in the newly-revamped Block Island Race Week, which took place on June 18 through June 22. Block Island Race Week takes place on alternate years with the Storm Trysail Club’s...
Tavern provides fire suppression line to B&B
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 29
Category:
News
The Yellow Kittens Tavern on Corn Neck Road is providing a temporary fire suppression water line to its neighbor, the Avonlea, a bed and breakfast, for the 2018 summer season. Without the temporary water line the Avonlea would not be permitted to operate during the high season. The problem began...
‘Block Island is my paradise’
Thu, Jun 28
Category:
News
The following was sent in by Gail Heinz, whose grandson Liam Duffy, of Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., wrote the following school essay:
In many ways, Block Island is my paradise island. The best part of Block Island is the beach. You can boogie board, surf, swim, make sand castles, have barbecues...
Uber places ad seeking Block Island drivers
By
Lars Trodson
Tue, Jun 26
Category:
News
This story has been updated from the version that appeared on blockislandtimes.com on June 26:
Uber wants to come to Block Island, but the welcome mat might not come out, at least not from taxicab owners and drivers. On Monday, June 25, the ride sharing service placed an online ad on
The...
Protecting the dunes a priority
By
Pat Tengwall
Fri, Jun 22
Category:
News
The persistent habit of cyclists parking their bikes next to the Crescent Beach walkovers – instead of using the bike racks across Corn Neck Road from the beach – and walking over the dunes has led to the Town Council agreeing to discuss adopting an ordinance that, potentially, could fine people...
BIPCo Board considers new rate plan
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Jun 22
Category:
News
The Block Island Power Company is required to file a new rate design case with the R.I. Public Utilities Commission this summer. The PUC had initially called for a rate case to be filed six months after the island was connected to the mainland via a transmission cable but extended the due date from...
Buoys at the Beach
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 22
Category:
News
National Grid has informed
The Block Island Times
that the field of a dozen buoys to be installed offshore at the Town Beach to mark the sea2shore cable’s ‘no-anchor zone’ will look like a standard harbor buoy. National Grid needs to install the buoys to alert boaters to the fact that Grid’...
‘A very special day.’
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Jun 22
Category:
News
For the 86th time, young men and women participated in a Block Island School Commencement — a celebration that always seems to embrace not only the accomplishments of the graduating students but life on the island itself. “You couldn’t ask for a better day,” said Co-Principal John Canole, standing...
Water and Sewer budgets pass
By
Lars Trodson
Thu, Jun 21
Category:
News
The fiscal year 2019 budgets for the Water and Sewer Companies were quickly approved by a show of hands at the annual Financial Meeting that was held on Monday, June 18 at Town Hall. The budgets are approved by customers of each company; a minimum of seven customers are required to make a quorum...
Some ferries cancelled due to repair work
Tue, Jun 19
Category:
News
Interstate Navigation has announced some ferry cancellations for the next few days due to maintenance being done on the Carol Jean.
PT. JUDITH TRADITIONAL FERRY
DEPARTURE CANCELLATIONS FOR:
TUESDAY, JUNE 19; WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 and THURSDAY, JUNE 21.
LEAVING PT....
Order this... A world of flavors at Mohegan Café
By
Amy Lockwood MacDougall
Fri, Jun 15
Category:
News
There’s a lot to like about the Mohegan Café and Brewery. Pioneers of #skipthestraw, owners Marc and Katie note on their website that “Plastic drinking straws are another top polluter of the environment and as a high volume restaurant we’d be remiss not to try and do our part to further the island’...
Town employee housing proposal approved
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 15
Category:
News
The New Shoreham Town Council has taken the first step down the road of trying to address its town employee housing needs. The Town Council voted unanimously (5-0) at a recent work session to direct Town Manager Ed Roberge to explore the town-employee housing initiative: building a single-family...
Bridge repair needs additional fix
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Jun 15
Category:
News
Just a few days after the construction of the Old Town Road Bridge was finished, the water level of Mill Pond was down about a foot-and-a-half. According to Town Manager Ed Roberge, water from the pond was leaking through the weir, a concrete box designed to check the flow of water from the pond...
Keeping the ocean in view
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 15
Category:
News
The New Shoreham Town Council, on the recommendation of the Planning Board, has sent a resolution to the Rhode Island General Assembly in opposition to a Senate bill that would allow building height to be increased for properties built along the coastline. The Town Council voted unanimously (5-0)...
Harbor Management Plan being updated
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 15
Category:
News
The Town of New Shoreham is working on a five-month schedule to update its Harbor Management Plan. The goal is to hold a series of meetings with the Harbors Committee and the public to address important issues regarding both Old and New Harbor. Town Manager Ed Roberge told
The Block Island Times...
Cherry Hill Lane OK’d
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 15
Category:
News
The long-planned Cherry Hill Lane affordable housing proposal has been given the green light. The project, which has been the topic of any number of hearings during the past few years, and withstood strong opposition from some abutters, was granted unanimous (5-0) preliminary plan stage approval at...
Shellfish licenses to be sold at Town Hall
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Jun 15
Category:
News
Wendell Corey got right to the point at the Shellfish Commission’s meeting on Tuesday, June 12. “Where are you going to sell shellfish licenses?” he asked Harbors Assistant and Shellfish Clerk Kate McConville. “As of now, right in Town Hall,” answered McConville. Later she would say: “It was either...
The enduring appeal of the glass floats
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Jun 15
Category:
News
Eben Horton’s Glass Float Project has become a thing. Everybody — almost everybody — wants one, few find one. A total of 550 floats are placed around the island during the year. Most of them are clear, but 19 are colored and one is gold. They are not just treasures to be found. Once in a while they...
RIAC to run Block Island Airport
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Jun 15
Category:
News
The Rhode Island Airport Corporation has apparently not renewed its contract with AvPorts, the company that has managed the state’s smaller airports, including the Block Island Airport and the Westerly Airport, and will take over the management of the airport on July 1. Tourism Director Jessica...
Missing BIVFD funds will be covered by insurance
By
Pat Tengwall
Fri, Jun 15
Category:
News
Spending – past, present, and future – was on the agenda and the minds of the membership at the Block Island Volunteer Fire Department's monthly meeting on June 11: Past spending: Treasurer Michael Lofaro said that the Department's insurance will cover financial irregularities discovered in the...
New school superintendent selected
By
Pat Tengwall
Fri, Jun 15
Category:
News
The New Shoreham School Committee has selected retired educator Michael Convery as the next superintendent of the Block Island school district. Four of the five members of the School Committee voted unanimously in closed session at a meeting on June 5 to appoint Convery to the post; one member was...
Block Island Race Week
Thu, Jun 14
Category:
News
Block Island is hosting a new boat race this year sponsored by the Block Island and Duck Island Yacht Clubs. The Block Island Race Week 2018 event will take place starting on Monday, June 18 and ending on Friday, June 22. Here is the schedule of entertainment events taking place after the day’s...
Bogdanffy watercolors at Spring Street
Thu, Jun 14
Category:
News
A new collection of watercolors of renowned jazz musicians by Marilyn Bogdanffy will be on display for one day only at The Spring Street Gallery, Saturday, June 16, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The public is welcome.
Newly renovated Beach Pavilion opening
By
Cassius Shuman
Wed, Jun 13
Category:
News
The Fred Benson Beach Pavilion has been renovated with a brand new blue exterior color, and will be opening full-time this Saturday, June 16 for the summer season. The beach pavilion was renovated by Lincoln-based Mill City Construction from a design schematic drafted by Northeast Collaborative...
‘No anchor zone’ will protect exposed cable
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jun 8
Category:
News
,
B.I. Wind Farm
Beginning June 15, a field comprising a dozen buoys, designating a “no-anchor zone,” will flank an exposed section of the National Grid sea2shore cable located off Town Beach, a move approved by the Town Council as a temporary solution until National Grid can address the cable situation more...
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