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One network, 14 contracts
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Jul 20
Category:
News
It’s slow work getting a high-speed network up and running. According to Broadband Committee Chair Lucinda Morrison, the project is contractually slated to be completed by Dec. 31, 2018 — which it is on track to do. But the build-out for the five Community Anchor Institutions may start a little...
Cherry Hill Lane project moves toward bidding
By
Pat Tengwall
Fri, Jul 20
Category:
News
The Block Island Housing Board has begun to review design drawings for the five homes in the Cherry Hill Lane affordable housing development, the next step toward bringing the long-planned project to fruition. Members plan to consult with Town Manager Ed Roberge about the process of issuing bids...
Summer Wind From the Sea
By
Martha Ball
Fri, Jul 20
Category:
News
It is July on Block Island. The rain was supposed to come last night; the forecast promised that perfect Camelot rain, slow and steady throughout the night. The radar showed masses of solid green and yellow stretching far off to the west, all marching east. The air felt ready to turn liquid in the...
New watercolors at Jessie Edwards
Fri, Jul 20
Category:
News
Th e past becomes present in William T. Hall’s new exhibit of watercolors showing the island’s daily boating and fishing habits in earlier times. The works will be on display from Friday, July 20 to Wednesday, Aug. 1, with the opening reception on Saturday, July 21, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Jessie...
Pam Gelsomini at Spring Street Gallery
Fri, Jul 20
Category:
News
Please join us at the opening for Pam (Anderson) Gelsomini’s show “Summer Breeze” at the Spring Street Gallery on Tuesday, July 24 from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will celebrate Block Island summer scenes and landscapes via acrylic paintings on canvas and board. The show runs from Tuesday, July 24...
Race to benefit Mary D. Fund is this weekend
Thu, Jul 19
Category:
News
The following was submitted by Block Island Community Sailing, Inc.:
The Mary D. Fund Benefit Regatta, a traditional sailing event that was created and run in the 1990s until 2004 by island sailing program supporter Tony Edwards, will be held again this Saturday, July 21. The race is a 12...
Dinghy dock construction begins
By
Cassius Shuman
Mon, Jul 16
Category:
News
Construction of the town's public dinghy dock began today, July 16, at New Harbor. Cross Sound Ferry, the New London, Conn.-based ferry company owned by the Wronowski family, built, and is installing the dock between Payne's Dock and Dead Eye Dick's restaurant. The Wronowski family owns Dead Eye...
Summer Health Series
Safety from bugs and plants
By
Sarah Magaziner
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
With the summer months upon us, there comes an influx of people eager to enjoy the natural resources that Block Island has to offer. From the stunning coastline to the meandering trails, there is no secret that the natural beauty of Block Island is one of its biggest attractions – yet it can also...
Will you, Julie...?
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
The following was submitted by reader Ross Mannuzza:
The General Manager of The National Hotel, Julie Fuller, was in on it the whole time. I’m a long-time customer, and I was going to propose to Julie Schwartz (of Newtown, Conn.) right in front of the hotel. The photographer was Patrick O’...
Bruce Montgomery, former publisher of The Block Island Times, dies at 78
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
Royal Bruce Montgomery, publisher of
The Block Island Times
from
1999 to 2006, and editorial cartoonist since 1998, died on Thursday, July 5, at the age of 78. His obituary appears on page 22.
The Block Island Times
reached out to Montgomery’s friends and former colleagues...
Rhode Island suing oil companies
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
The State of Rhode Island is playing the role of David, opposing its Goliath, by taking on the world’s big oil companies. The state has initiated a legal battle against oil companies in Superior Court arguing that the use of oil has a direct impact on climate change, which in turn is affecting...
OIP won’t open until November
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
The newly-constructed Old Island Pub restaurant on Ocean Avenue will not be opening its doors until sometime in November. That was the news that came out of Monday’s Town Council meeting when the Council voted unanimously (5-0) to extend permission to the Gaffett family, the owners of the OIP, to...
Trash disposal charges increased
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
The cost of offloading trash at the New Shoreham Transfer Station just got a little more expensive. The price per pound has increased from 12 cents to 15 cents, with a few other increases, after the New Shoreham Town Council approved the measure at its meeting on Monday, July 9. The rate hikes,...
Dinghy dock construction to begin
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
Installation of the town’s new dinghy dock will begin on Monday, July 16 and should be completed within seven to 10 days. “We will have a public dinghy dock in place at that time,” said Town Manager Ed Roberge to the New Shoreham Town Council at Monday night’s Council meeting. “I’m pleased to note...
Hennessey and Greenlee: New twists on old standards
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
The following was submitted by Jayme Hennessy:
Cameron Greenlee and Megan Hennessy will open the 2018 Saint Andrew Summer Concert series with new twists on jazz favorites. Come join them, on Wednesday, July 18 at 7:30 p.m. for an evening of music that will enchant and draw you into the...
Comedy Night at Yellow Kittens
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
The Block Island Summer Comedy Series returns to Yellow Kittens on Sunday, July 15 at 8 p.m. This is the second of four shows throughout the summer, future dates being Sunday, Aug. 26 and Sunday, Oct. 7. This particular show features the biggest name brought to the island thus far — Jessimae Peluso...
Sea Shanties: Songs sailors sang
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
Enjoying the Block Island Maritime Institute Tuesday Night Lecture Series? Great. But for a break and some fun next Tuesday BIMI is bringing back two of the island’s most popular singers of the late 1980s: Jon Campbell and Everett Brown. They will appear at the Cove Room at the BIMI Center on...
‘Pop-Up Storytime’ debuts
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
With the sun shining brightly, and some toddlers watching her every word, Morgan Walsh, the Island Free Library’s Youth Services Librarian, read from books, sang some songs, and danced while hosting her first “Read Around the Block” summer “Pop-Up Storytime” event at The Darius Inn on June 29. At...
Hartnett Open Studio at Southwest Point
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
Island artists Sean and Leslie Hartnett will be showing their work at their home and studio on Saturday, July 21 from 4 to 7 p.m. (rain date is Sunday, July 22). Sean Hartnett’s sensuous stone sculpture will be on view in their living room gallery as well as in his barn studio. Larger sculptures...
John Warfel and Eileen Miller
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
Painter Eileen Miller and ceramic artist John Warfel will combine their work again this summer at The Spring Street Gallery, with an opening reception on Saturday, July 14 from 5 to 7 p.m. The public is cordially invited. Miller's abstract oil paintings feature splashes of color and a build-up of...
Thea Monje at Spring Street
Fri, Jul 13
Category:
News
To perennially exist between seasons is to live year-round on Block Island. As a local, growing up on-island has given me a respect for the impermanence of familiar spaces; this liminality is what I choose to focus on in my photographs. My showing at The Spring Street Gallery opens on Tuesday, July...
Mill Pond Bridge vandalized, fixed
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, Jul 12
Category:
News
The newly rebuilt Mill Pond Bridge was tagged with graffiti last week, resulting in swift condemnation by many and quick action by the Highways Department to clean it up. Town officials discovered the graffiti on the newly renovated structure on Thursday, July 12. The graffiti covered a portion of...
The health benefits of mindfulness meditation
By
Sarah Magaziner
Sat, Jul 7
Category:
News
The following is the first in the Block Island Health Services Community Health Outreach Series.
The pace and pressures of daily life can place excessive demands on our time, attention, and even our health. As our responsibilities multiply it becomes increasingly difficult to stay connected...
New business: A whole new style on Dodge Street
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Jul 6
Category:
News
Kinga Kaminska is sitting, relaxed, in her new hair salon on Dodge Street. The space once belonged to Mark Koch’s Beachcomber salon, but Kaminska has transformed the space to reflect her own casual elegance. There are art books on a narrow table sitting in front of a colorful divan. There is art...
Tables vandalized at Ball O’Brien Park
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jul 6
Category:
News
Eleven picnic tables were vandalized at Ball O’Brien Park on Saturday, June 30, New Shoreham Recreation Director Dave Sniffen told
The Block Island Times.
Sniffen said the damaged tables created a “dangerous” situation for children playing in the park. “It took place sometime Saturday night...
Utility District makes counter-offer
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Jul 6
Category:
News
It was almost exactly a year ago in the final hours of the 2017 session of the Rhode Island General Assembly that legislation enabling the formation of the Block Island Utility District was passed into law. The intent of the legislation was to form a not-for-profit utility, controlled by ratepayers...
Town crafting ‘flexible harbor plan’
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Jul 6
Category:
News
“This is Block Island’s plan. It isn’t anybody else’s. It’s what’s unique to us.” Town Manager Ed Roberge made those remarks regarding the Town of New Shoreham’s Harbor Management Plan at a June 28 meeting, which involved his first forum on the subject with the Harbors Committee. Roberge, who is...
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...
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