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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...
Cable shutdown postponed
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 9
Category:
News
,
B.I. Wind Farm
The temporary shut down of National Grid’s sea2shore transmission cable for a 24-hour period has been postponed until the fall of 2018. National Grid had originally planned to shut the cable down on March 13 to conduct work at its Wakefield substation. Now the work in the fall will involve two...
No major damage, but storm reveals island’s fragility
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 9
Category:
News
The nor’easter that blew through the northeast on March 1 and 2 hit some coastal regions very hard, and even though Block Island pushed through the 65 mile-per-hour winds with tree damage and flooding, some people who keep an eye on the island’s ecology were somewhat alarmed with what they saw in...
Taxpayers’ suit opposing BIPCo sale quashed
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 9
Category:
News
A lawsuit against the town’s purchase of shares of the Block Island Power Company came to an end after the R.I. Supreme Court ruled against the plaintiffs on March 2. The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled against 12 New Shoreham residents who have been contesting the Town of New Shoreham’s purchase...
Storm impacts fragile bluffs
Fri, Mar 9
Category:
News
The following text and photos were submitted by Nigel Grindley:
As a member of the team that monitors coastal erosion on the island, I took a portfolio of photos immediately before and after the storm. The images show the extent of bluff erosion north of Scotch Beach, as well as the...
Experimental snow fencing passes the test
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 9
Category:
News
Island resident Chris Warfel has been pushing for the use of snow fencing built out of biodegradable jute in place of the wooden slat fencing for some time now, and test installations of the alternative fencing are showing positive results. Warfel has been arguing that the slat alternative does...
Personal essay: The mission of Camp Kesem
By
Bridgette Keane
Thu, Mar 8
Category:
News
From the fall activities fair to now, the students involved in Camp Kesem have been some of the most welcoming people I have met at Duke University. I have become a member myself, and I can honestly say that it is already having a huge impact on my experience at Duke to be able to have a sense of...
Larchmont tragedy recounted in book
Thu, Mar 8
Category:
News
“On February 11, 1907, 156 men, women, and children boarded the passenger steamship
Larchmont
in Providence, Rhode Island, for an overnight cruise to New York City. By the following morning, 137 of them were dead — drowned, frozen, or scalded to death — and the ship sat in the muck at the...
Council supports Island worker detained by ICE
By
Cassius Shuman
Thu, Mar 8
Category:
News
Backed by hundreds of signatures on a petition, and dozens of letters of support, Block Island Grocery owner Mary Jane Balser made an impassioned, emotional, and ultimately successful plea to have the Block Island Town Council draft a resolution supporting one of her employees who was recently...
1982 report looked into coastal drilling
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 2
Category:
News
A study of the economic and environmental impacts of offshore oil and natural gas drilling that was prepared more than 35 years ago indicates that even if coastal Atlantic waters are opened up to that industry, finding enough oil or gas to make drilling economically sustainable is still an unknown...
Report lays groundwork for hi-speed network
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 2
Category:
News
A final report on how to build high-speed internet service for what is being called a Community Anchor Institution network has been presented to the town by HealthConnect Networks, the company hired by the town to consult on the project. The goals of this smaller project are to “Build and implement...
Bridge reconstruction kicks off Monday
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 2
Category:
News
Reconstruction of the historic Mill Pond Bridge and its culvert on Old Town Road is scheduled to start on Monday, March 5, and involve a short daytime water main shutdown that will impact a handful of customers. Town Manager Ed Roberge told
The Block Island Times
that “full kick off” of...
Block Island student in state poetry finals
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 2
Category:
News
Block Island School student Maya Veldman-Wilson will be competing with 15 other high school students in the state poetry finals. Veldman-Wilson will compete in the Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest at the James P. Metcalf Auditorium, at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum on Sunday...
Financing sought to buy BIPCo
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Mar 2
Category:
News
The Block Island Utility District is diligently moving forward on its plans to acquire the Block Island Power Company, tackling matters both large and small. The recent completion and adaptation of a set of bylaws has paved the way for the Utility District to begin pursuing financing options and to...
Library hiring part-time maintenance person
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 2
Category:
News
The Island Free Library’s Board of Trustees voted unanimously to hire a repairman, Martin Rosato, at an hourly rate of $30 for up to five hours per week to address minor building issues. The Board of Trustees voted on the matter after Library Director Kristin Baumann broached the subject at the...
Town Council roundup
Hunting for consensus on hunting dates
By
Pat Tengwall
Fri, Mar 2
Category:
News
After much back and forth discussion, the Town Council approved deer and pheasant hunting dates for the next two seasons at its most recent meeting. Those dates will now be sent to the R.I. Department of Environmental Management for final approval. The sticking point for the three members present...
R.I. AG proposing assault weapon legislation
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Mar 2
Category:
News
It may become a little more difficult to purchase assault weapons such as AR-15s in the state of Rhode Island. The Rhode Island Attorney General’s office filed legislation this week that would require the proof of firearm safety training administered by the Department of Environmental Management...
Legislators, town oppose offshore drilling
By
Lars Trodson
Fri, Mar 2
Category:
News
There is growing opposition to the federal government’s proposal to open up coastal waters along the East Coast to oil and natural gas drilling. Both Attorney General Peter F. Kilmartin and Gov. Gina Raimondo made formal remarks opposing the measure on the same day that the Bureau of Ocean Energy...
Newspaper Association honors The Block Island Times
Fri, Mar 2
Category:
News
The Block Island Times
was the recipient of nine awards from the New England Newspaper and Press Association for 2017 — two for ad design and seven for editorial content. The NENPA awards ceremony banquet was held on Saturday, Feb. 24 at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel. NENPA...
Rainfall observers needed
Fri, Mar 2
Category:
News
The following was submitted by the National Weather Service:
Are you interested in the weather? Would you like to know how much rain fell at your house? How about snowfall during a winter storm? If so, an important volunteer weather observation program needs your help in Rhode Island. The...
Beware of Medicare card scam
Thu, Mar 1
Category:
News
The following was sent in by Gloria Redlich of the Senior Advisory Committee:
The Rhode Island Division of Elderly Affairs has issued a scam alert regarding the issuance of new Medicare cards. “Scammers posing as Medicare reps will call asking for your current Medicare number and offer to...
Coast Guard cautions public about storm
Thu, Mar 1
Category:
News
The following press release was sent to
The Block Island Times: Coast Guard warns mariners, prepares for storm, coastal flooding in Northeast BOSTON — The Coast Guard is advising mariners and the public along the Massachusetts and Rhode Island coast to exercise vigilance and extreme...
New sailing group established for island-based families
Sat, Feb 24
Category:
News
The following was submitted by Block Island Community Sailing, Inc.:
Block Island, with its perfect combination of fair breezes, a beautiful sheltered harbor, and excellent marine facilities, is a modern mecca for the sport of sailing. Block Island also has three centuries of a proud...
Mohegan Bluffs’ new outlook
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Feb 23
Category:
News
The Mohegan Bluffs has a brand new outlook. No, not its attitude; it has a new perch where people can view the scenery. The new outlook is part of a Mohegan Bluffs renovation project under the supervision of the New Shoreham Highways Department. Highways Supervisor Mike Shea told
The Block...
Anchor broadband network gets go-ahead
By
Pat Tengwall
Fri, Feb 23
Category:
News
The Block Island School and the Medical Center will be connected to the proposed broadband network by the start of school in September 2018, according to a “very ambitious schedule” endorsed by the Town Council on Wednesday Feb. 21. The Council authorized Town Manager Ed Roberge to direct the...
Committee to look into dinghy dock compliance
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Feb 23
Category:
News
The decision to reduce the amount of public space available for dinghies at the Block Island Boat Basin by half last summer appears to be in violation of an assent granted back in 1998, according to a member of the Harbors Committee. The closure of half of the dinghy dock left boaters scrambling to...
Wind turbines and fish co-existing, so far
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Feb 23
Category:
News
,
B.I. Wind Farm
It seems as though the foundations of the Block Island Wind Farm and maritime life can not only co-exist, but perhaps even flourish, together. That was the message conveyed by Deepwater Wind and the American Wind Energy Association during a webinar with journalists held on Feb. 14. A video that...
130 responses could benefit town project
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Feb 23
Category:
News
As of last week, only 30 surveys sent out by the Block Island Water Company had been returned. The surveys were sent to year-round residents living in the water and sewer districts, with a needed compliance rate of 69 percent, so that the Water Department can gain access to USDA loan and grant...
THIRTY!
By
Martha Ball
Fri, Feb 23
Category:
News
A few years ago, looking up past articles on the history of the beach house, I happened upon a front page headline “
BI Times goes weekly
.” I jotted it down and put the note aside only to find it while sorting through papers on my desk last month. I realized
The Block Island Times...
New power agreement will stabilize rates for 18 months
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Feb 23
Category:
News
The Block Island Power Company secured its second power procurement agreement with Shell on Feb. 20. The first agreement with Shell became effective May 1, 2017, when the power company switched off its diesel generators and began receiving power from the Block Island Wind Farm, or through the...
Nicholas Ball Park to be refurbished
By
Cassius Shuman
Fri, Feb 23
Category:
News
Nicholas Ball Park will be getting improvements to make it look a little more attractive and welcoming to visitors. That’s partly because the New Shoreham Town Council voted unanimously (5-0) at its work session on Feb. 7 to support the Old Harbor Task Force’s application for a Main Street grant...
Tree replacement may be put off
By
Renée Meyer
Fri, Feb 23
Category:
News
Much of the focus of the Block Island Land Trust’s latest meeting was on Ball O’Brien Park. In September of 2016, the homeowners association for the Salt Pond Settlement wrote a letter to the Town Council asking that the town address the problem of tree branches from the park scraping the building...
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