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Sierra Club wants larger, not small, wind farm projects
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Apr 13
Category:
News
,
B.I. Wind Farm
A story about the Sierra Club opposing a small wind farm proposed for the coast of New Jersey caught the eye of more than one Block Island resident, if only because reports said the Sierra Club was opposing that six-turbine wind farm because it was, at three miles off the coast, too close to the...
Scout Sunday
Fri, Apr 13
Category:
News
It was Scout Sunday at the Harbor Church on April 8, when the members of Boy Scouts Troop 30, and members of the Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts, were invited to the church service. The Scouts on Block Island are: Mac Brown and Caleb Butcher. Girl Scouts: Peyton Henshaw, Sydnee Coffen, Keira Closter,...
Smith draws on six decades of work for new book
By
Lars Trodson
Sat, Apr 7
Category:
News
Robert Ellis Smith, a Providence-based attorney who has written extensively on the subject of privacy rights, has a new book of essays reflecting on the many celebrities, writers, politicians, and athletes he has interviewed and written about during his six decades as a journalist. Smith is a...
Council retooling employee housing proposal
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Apr 6
Category:
News
After listening to some public input indicating that spending $1.125 million on a home for one senior town employee might be hard for taxpayers to swallow, the New Shoreham Town Council is reworking the idea. Several town residents spoke at a work session on Wednesday, April 4, expressing their...
Town solicitors reappointed to one-year terms
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Apr 6
Category:
News
The New Shoreham Town Council has voted unanimously to reappoint Town Solicitors Katherine Merolla and Don Packer each to one-year terms that expire in December of 2018. The appointments were deferred from the previously scheduled time of reappointment, last December, so the Council could have a...
BIHS finances up and down
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Apr 6
Category:
News
The financial situation at the Block Island Medical Center, while improving, shows two areas of concern for the members of the Board that oversee the facility. One area is the heavy reliance on fundraising needed to keep the Medical Center afloat. The other area is the fact that patient fees are...
Balloons voted off the island
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Apr 6
Category:
News
The slogan “No balloons!” was repeated often at the April 2 meeting of the New Shoreham Town Council, and those people got their wish. The Town Council unanimously voted to ban the use and sale of balloons on Block Island. The move comes four months after the Town Council banned the use of single-...
Town priming poles for broadband project
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Apr 6
Category:
News
The New Shoreham Town Council took a step toward paving the path for the town’s installation of a community anchor institution broadband network. At its meeting on March 21, the council voted unanimously to authorize Town Manager Ed Roberge to execute pole attachment licensing agreements with...
Cable shut down for NGrid repairs
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Apr 6
Category:
News
,
B.I. Wind Farm
The Block Island Power Company expended 850 gallons of diesel fuel on March 29 while National Grid shut down its sea2shore cable to conduct repairs to a static wire component of its interconnection system. BIPCo President Jeffery Wright said island ratepayers will not be charged for the cost of the...
Shoreline, badly exposed, to be addressed
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Apr 6
Category:
News
The site is a shoreline strewn with rusted metal and assorted junk, revealed through several seasons of extreme weather. With further erosion expected at West Beach, Town Engineer Jim Geremia took a group of contractors on a pre-bid walking tour of the site in preparation for a project that Geremia...
Applications scheduled, and a hearing postponed
By
Pat Tengwall
Fri, Apr 6
Category:
News
The New Shoreham Zoning Board of Review held a brief, procedural meeting on Wednesday, March 28. Three new applications and a public hearing were on the agenda. The hearing, on a variance application by Jonathan Wallen and Katheryn Anastos to construct an addition to a building on Center Road (Plat...
New leadership at BIC
Thu, Apr 5
Category:
News
The following was submitted by the Block Island Conservancy:
At its most recent meeting, Block Island Conservancy’s Board of Directors elected Dorrie Napoleone as the new BIC President and hired Clair Stover as its new Executive Director. An Island resident since 2001, Dorrie Napoleone...
It’s Carnival Day at School
Thu, Apr 5
Category:
News
The following was submitted by Block Island School art teacher Lisa Robb:
The annual Winter Carnival, held on Wednesday, March 28, is a family event sponsored by the Block Island School Friends and Parents of Block Island School. The event welcomed students from kindergarten through the...
Where in the World
Thu, Apr 5
Category:
News
Roberta and Jim McCormick of Block Island, and Holly and Bill Meiners, Southport, N.C., parents of Laurel Littlefield of Block Island, traveled with
The Block Island Times
to see the terra-cotta warriors at Xian, China. This amazing archeological site was constructed more than 2,000 years...
Cemetery cleanup day
Thu, Apr 5
Category:
News
The following was submitted by the Block Island Historical Society:
The State of Rhode Island has proclaimed Saturday, April 14 as “Historic Cemetery Restoration and Awareness Day.” The day is designed to bring together groups of local residents, historical society members, Block Island...
Hurricanes take opener
Thu, Apr 5
Category:
News
Council bans use and sale of balloons
By
Cassius Shuman
Tue, Apr 3
Category:
News
The New Shoreham Town Council voted unanimously (5-0) last night to prohibit the use and sale of all types of balloons on Block Island. With several members of the community calling for “no balloons,” the Council approved the Planning Board’s recommendation of drafting and enforcing a general...
Town employee housing bond sparks debate
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 30
Category:
News
Town Manager Ed Roberge has recommended that a $1.125 million bond to acquire an existing market-ready residential property for a senior town employee be included in a warrant at the next Financial Town Meeting in May. Roberge made the recommendation at the Town Council’s budget session on...
Flooding on Corn Neck causing concerns
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 30
Category:
News
There was a sense of urgency in Councilor Martha Ball’s voice when she said attention is needed to address storm flooding issues on Corn Neck Road, and at the Town Beach parking lot. Ball made her comments during the Council’s March 19 meeting when she noted that a series of storms caused severe...
Capital expenses down, debt up
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 30
Category:
News
The New Shoreham Town Council listened to Town Manager Ed Roberge’s step-by-step presentation of the capital improvements budget and debt service for fiscal year 2019 at its March 21 meeting. The discussion was part of the Council’s budget hearings concerning the proposed municipal budget of $14,...
BIPCo makes its case to socialize substation costs
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Mar 30
Category:
News
“Holy cow!” said Block Island Power Company President Jeffery Wright of the four nor’easters that blew through the region in March at the Block Island Utility District’s meeting on Tuesday. Although the last storm was much less severe than predicted, all in all, Wright told the Utility...
Church apartments receive HDC blessing
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 30
Category:
News
The Harbor Church’s affordable rental housing project is progressing towards its January 2019 goal for occupancy. Church Trustee Tony Pappas, who is spearheading the $450,000 project, was granted unanimous final approval (4-0) for adding a deck and stairs on the building’s west exterior, and...
Impressions from the March
Fri, Mar 30
Category:
News
Several Block Islanders attended the March For Our Lives in Providence on Saturday, March 24. The event was inspired by the activism of student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Florida on Feb. 14. Here are some of their impressions of the event:
When I was a...
Impressions of Washington, D.C.
Fri, Mar 30
Category:
News
Students from the Block Island School’s 11th and 12th grade classes recently took a Close Up trip to the nation’s capitol. Here are their impressions on the places they visited in the District of Columbia:
The Holocaust Museum really changed my perspective on how the Nazi regime affected...
Library Trustees discuss broadband funding
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 30
Category:
News
Now that the Town of New Shoreham is moving forward with installing a fiber optic broadband network to connect its Community Anchor Institutions the question facing each of those institutions is how those connections will be funded. One of those institutions is the Island Free Library. The town’s...
Kelp farm idea explored for GSP
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Mar 30
Category:
News
Obtaining a lease for aquaculture is a many-layered process that starts with the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council. The CRMC’s aquaculture coordinator Dave Beutel recently visited Block Island to conduct a “preliminary determination meeting” on Catherine Puckett’s proposed sugar kelp farm...
Conservation Comm. okays housing plan
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Mar 30
Category:
News
The Block Island Affordable Housing Board appeared before the Conservation Commission on March 20 for at least the third time seeking a favorable advisory for its planned five-lot subdivision called Cherry Hill Lane. At previous meetings, landscape plans, or the lack thereof, were of particular...
Pro-balloon campaign surfaces on the internet
Sun, Mar 25
Category:
News
An internet campaign protesting the possible banning of the same and use of balloons on the island is beginning to attract some attention on Facebook. A page by a group called “Balloons lift up” has posted an ad featuring a small child with her hand over her face, looking frustrated and dismayed,...
Tax revenues confounding town, Tourism
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 23
Category:
News
The members of the Tourism Council didn’t have much to say after their first glimpse at the proposed Tourism budget for 2019 because they felt, in some way, it was written in disappearing ink. The reason for that is this: In comparing hotel tax revenue for the past two full calendar years — 2016...
Anchoring field may violate CRMC policy
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Mar 23
Category:
News
Is the area of the Great Salt Pond where boaters have been permitted to anchor for many years in violation of the Coastal Resources Management Council’s policies? Erik Elwell of the Harbors Committee seems to think so. “Our entire anchorage field is in Type I waters,” he said at the Committee’s...
Gurguri released on bond
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 23
Category:
News
“It was a complete shock to me.” That was Meriton Gurguri’s reaction to being arrested on Block Island by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on Feb. 27. The ICE agents had taken a Coast Guard cutter to Block Island to arrest him while he was working at the Block Island Grocery store. “I...
State reps get input from Town Councilors
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 23
Category:
News
The New Shoreham Town Council and State Sen. Susan Sosnowski and State Rep. Blake Filippi spent an hour and a half deliberating legislative priorities, with both sides stressing the need for greater communication, while touching on a host of issues that might require urgency. Sosnowski, a Democrat...
Fire Department authorizes additional safety spending
By
Pat Tengwall
Fri, Mar 23
Category:
News
Properly equipping firefighters is expensive. The Block Island Fire and Rescue Department membership faced that reality at its March 19 meeting, learning that the $54,000 they had approved in February to buy new air packs was not enough; and that replacing or remodeling one ambulance could cost as...
Signs of spring
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 23
Category:
News
It’s as much a sign of spring as anything when the Recreation Department starts to announce that it’s hired some camp counselors and lifeguards for the upcoming summer season. Recreation Department Director Dave Sniffen said that he had hired three fulltime lifeguards and four counselors for Camp...
2019 Harbors budget session generates some heat
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 23
Category:
News
The New Shoreham Town Council continued its process of reviewing the proposed 2019 municipal budget one town department at a time, with few areas of concern, aside from one department, in the most recent budget discussion. The proposed budget is $14,477,968. The second public work session on the...
Gomes retires
Thu, Mar 22
Category:
News
Longtime Block Island School Guidance Counselor Betty Gomes has tendered her resignation, which will become effective at the end of the school year. The School Committee accepted her resignation with regret at its most recent meeting on Monday, March 19. Gomes has been in that position for the past...
Gurguri makes bond
By
Cassius Shuman
Tue, Mar 20
Category:
News
An immigration judge ruled today that a local man arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents can be returned to Block Island and seek a path to U.S. citizenship. Meriton Gurguri, a 29 year old Kosovo native and manager at the Block Island Grocery store, came to the Island in 2011 and...
Mill Pond Bridge reconstruction
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 16
Category:
News
Reconstruction of the historic Mill Pond Bridge and its culvert on Old Town Road is underway. The project's contractor J.H. Lynch & Sons installed a new iron ductile water main with insulation on March 16. The bridge will be fortified with a concrete slab, and the road will be repaved, and...
Students silently protest gun violence
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 16
Category:
News
About 35 students and several teachers at the Block Island School stood outside in solidarity with students all across the country who are asking Congress to pass stricter gun control laws. The silent protest took place at 10 a.m. and lasted for 17 minutes — one minute for each of the victims of...
Filippi asks for leniency in ICE case
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 16
Category:
News
State Representative and Minority Whip Blake Filippi has written to an Immigration Court Administrator in Boston on behalf of an Island resident currently being detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Massachusetts. Meriton Gurguri, 29, was taken off the Island by ICE...
Oyster farmer seeks town’s aid
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 16
Category:
News
A Block Island aquaculture farmer has sought assistance from the Town of New Shoreham to aid with the facilitation of aquaculture business needs on the Island. Resident Chris Warfel, who owns Sun Farm Oysters, met with the Town Council at a March 7 work session, when he requested infrastructure...
Little coins, little people, big help
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 16
Category:
News
There are piles of pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters spread out all over the table. The talk goes like this: “Wow, look at Hannah’s quarter pile.” “Make a stack of dimes, Mia.” “Brody — you take those nickels.” “Noble, put those in piles of 10.” This is Mrs. Debbie Hart’s kindergarten class...
Council debates school programs
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 16
Category:
News
A discussion about the Block Island School’s 2019 budget turned into a debate regarding programming when Supt. Judith Lundsten informed the Town Council that the budget included $13,000 that would add volleyball to the school’s sports program. The money would be used to pay for equipment, travel...
What a difference a day makes
Fri, Mar 16
Category:
News
The weather warnings were direct and severe on Monday, March 12: "A winter storm, with possible blizzard conditions, is forecast for Block island from 11 p.m. Monday night until 8 p.m. Tuesday evening. Heavy snow is forecast with potential accumulations of 10 to 15 inches..." There was rain and...
Loans available for sewer tie-ins
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 16
Category:
News
Island homeowners with antiquated septic systems may have an opportunity to connect to the town sewer system affordably through a state run program if they’re eligible. Town Manager Ed Roberge introduced the item to the Town Council based on a recommendation made to him by Finance Director Amy Land...
Wright takes on unexpected role
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, Mar 15
Category:
News
Block Island Power Company President Jeffery Wright feels as though he has a new job. Not the job at BIPCo that he’s held now for more than a year, but something newer, something like a weather forecaster. Over the past few weeks, a series of severe winter storms have descended on Block Island,...
The story behind the picture
By
Malcolm Greenaway
Thu, Mar 15
Category:
News
The March page of the Union of Concerned Scientists’ calendar features a photograph of an offshore wind farm. At first glance, I thought it might be a shot of the Block Island Wind Farm. But when I took a closer look, I realized that it must be a wind farm located somewhere else in the world since...
Winter Storm Skylar hits Block Island
By
Cassius Shuman
Tue, Mar 13
Category:
News
Winter Storm Skylar hit Block Island on March 13, 2018 with heavy snow, and wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour.
The Block Island Time
s took a video tour of the Island to check out the conditions. The wind was gusting so strongly that it was challenging to hold the camera at times...
2019 budget reflects modest increase
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 9
Category:
News
Block Island taxpayers will be considering a newly crafted municipal budget of $14,477,968 for 2019, reflecting a 3.2 percent increase over this year’s appropriation. The budget, which was presented to the Town Council at a work session on Wednesday, March 7, by Town Manager Ed Roberge, will be...
Town-wide balloon ban may be next
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 9
Category:
News
It was the goal of the Block Island Planning Board, after plastic bags were successfully banned from retail points of sale on the island, to target either single use water bottles or balloons as the next to go. Turns out that balloons — and perhaps specifically Mylar balloons — may be next. At its...
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