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Letters to the Editor, August 27

Tue, Aug 30

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— In regard to the deal on the table with Mr. Lee at the end of Cooneymus Road, my understanding is the public will get full use of a CRMC right-of-way. Mr. Lee will make the public road his private yard. It will be better that way — keep those nasty tourists from enjoying it. If...
Letters, Aug. 20, 2011

Wed, Aug 24

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Letters

To: the Editor— Upon my return from Block Island today, I read with personal interest Mr. Albert Casazza's letter dated July 23, in which he supported the role of the advanced practice clinician (nurse practitioner or physician assistant) as a positive addition to the Block Island Medical Center...
Letters to the editor, Aug. 13

Sat, Aug 13

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Letters

To: the Editor— I enjoyed the article "Sunburn blisters on a new tattoo" by Jon Campbell (Aug. 6). I, too, used to summer on the island in the 1970s, and we never seemed to have “issues,” except with the drunk sailors down by New Harbor, maybe a few yahoos downtown, or some freaks on the beach, but...
Letters to the Editor

Wed, Aug 10

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— I read with great interest the Dan West article (Neighbors, council face off over Cooneymus beach access; July 30, 2011) concerning the controversy with regard to Cooneymus Road. The article was clear and concise, but the headline was inaccurate. The headline would lead one to...
Letters to the editor, July 30, 2011

Sat, Jul 30

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— My wife Penny and I experienced a near tragedy in New Harbor on July 23. A young boy fell out of the inflatable boat that he was operating while the boat was traveling at a high rate of speed. The motor on the inflatable continued to run and the boat started to circle while the...
Editorial: Savor the summer

Fri, Jul 29

Category:

Opinion

As we approach August 1 — the midpoint of the high summer season — the island is unusually lush and green from abundant rainfall. The butterfly bushes and trumpet vines are in full bloom. Island flowerbeds are ablaze with color, and the blackberries are almost ripe. We pass visitors stopped to...
Letters, July 23, 2011

Sun, Jul 24

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Letters

To: the Editor— I am a Bryant University student and happen to know a few people who attended that controversial beach party on the Fourth of July. I also sail frequently to Block Island and know enough about Block Island to have told my friends that their big get-together might ruin a good thing (...
Editorial: What's our energy plan?

Fri, Jul 22

Category:

Opinion

A hard-working town board has just finished up recommendations for the island’s energy plan — a plan that could easily, like so many before it, end up gathering dust on a Town Hall shelf. But there’s hope: An energy forum is to take place in the fall to ask for more input from residents, and maybe...
Letters, July 16, 2011

Sun, Jul 17

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— I take offense with the statement made by the Block Island Times (in an editorial, "Let's put safety first," that ran July 9) that the issue of overcrowding in nightclubs was: "a lesson the island took seriously for a few years, although the hard press of people inside...
Editorial: We are listening

Wed, Jul 13

Category:

Opinion

Several times over the last few weeks we have heard from readers concerned about a story we ran. First, we’d like to assure our readers that no one at the Block Island Times would ever intentionally write something offensive. We do our best to present the news objectively, truthfully and completely...
Editorial: A time for action

Sat, Jul 9

Category:

Opinion

Let’s put safety first After the pressure this year’s July Fourth celebrations put on our Volunteer Fire and Rescue squads and Medical Center, it’s heartening to hear that the Town Council is saying it’s time to think again about how we handle this holiday. No one wants to be a harbinger of doom...
Editorial: Celebrate your freedom by putting it to work

Wed, Jul 6

Category:

Opinion

This July 4 Block Island celebrates two milestones: the 350th anniversary of the European settlement of the island, as well as the 235th birthday of the United States of America. Amid the revelry — parades, fireworks and a huge influx of visitors — it would behoove us to reflect on just what it...
Letters, July 9, 2011

Tue, Jul 5

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— We would like to thank everyone from the town who kindly, thoroughly and efficiently assisted us in making the necessary updates to the Blue Dory Inn. We are especially grateful to Don Thimble, Mark Tillson, Molly Fitzpatrick and Chief Carlone, for their patience and diligence in...
Letters to the Editor, July 2, 2011

Sat, Jul 2

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Letters

To: the Editor— Last call! The final cutoff for ordering engraved bricks ($125) to be installed at Esta’s Park is Monday, July 4. Pick up and return forms at the BI Chamber Office at Old Harbor or download forms from the BI Chamber of Commerce or the BI Tourism websites. Margie Comings...
Letters, June 25, 2011

Sat, Jun 25

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Letters

To: the Editor— I think that Everett Littlefield and Robert Zeringo are both very wrong in many of their assertions and allegations about taxation, welfare, immigrants, education, healthcare, and political and academic history. I’d be happy to engage either or both of them in debate on any of these...
Publisher's note: Joining the Metcalf Institute

Fri, Jun 24

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Opinion

I was recently appointed to the advisory board of the Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting and had an opportunity to attend my first meeting. I came away with a renewed sense of the importance of environmental issues and a profound sense of how deeply they affect our tiny island...
Letters to the Editor: June 18, 2011

Mon, Jun 20

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— I am writing this letter in response to a June 4 letter to the editor from Everett R. Littlefield, USN Ret. Everett hit the nail right on the head. I stand to applaud everything he said and the way he said it. In the America I grew up in, people took pride in making it on their own...
Editorial: 350 years later

Sat, Jun 18

Category:

Opinion

350 years later This weekend we celebrate the 350th anniversary of the arrival of European settlers on Block Island. What if the members of those original families could be here to mark the occasion? Would they be pleased with what they find? And what about the people who came before them? The...
Take time to smell the rosa rugosa

Tue, Jun 14

Category:

Opinion

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle,” wrote George Orwell. One of the ironic outcomes of choosing to live year-round on one of “the last great places,” as The Nature Conservancy dubbed Block Island, is that the wonder of the paradise you call home can quickly become...
Letters to the Editor, June 11

Mon, Jun 13

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— Due to the long and very wet spring, we are just getting under way on the renovations of Esta’s Park. Harold Hatfield (Islandscape, Inc) and his crew have started framing the boardwalk and doing the necessary grading. We are waiting for delivery of the ipe wood (garapa gold) for the...
Letters to the Editor, June 4

Wed, Jun 1

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— I have a few questions that I would like to ask about the contents and subject matter of the article about Professor Stephen Davidson's book, “Still Broken: Understanding the U.S. Health Care System." If this is such a “great system” for all the American people, why are so many of...
Letters to the Editor, May 28

Wed, Jun 1

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— Do as I say, not as I do. A May 20 editorial in the Providence Journal suggested that heavy direct government support to start large-scale wind power is necessary regardless of near-term costs. Not coincidentally, that very argument was reported by this paper a week earlier...
Letters to the Editor, May 21

Mon, May 23

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— Our general assembly should cease trying to regulate electricity costs and stop encouraging non-cost-effective renewable energy. Their actions only benefit those getting federal and state subsidies or advantages from ill-advised state legislation. Other Rhode Island ratepayers end...
Letters to the Editor, May 14

Mon, May 16

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— As you know, the Block Island Medical Center has been conducting a search to identify a replacement for Dr. Paul Mann, who has resigned effective June 30. We need to report to the community that, in spite of a diligent effort, we have yet to make a hire. In January, a search...
Letters to the Editor, May 7

Sat, May 7

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— The Block Island Financial Town Meeting has come and gone. Basically it was a “same old, same old” story with arguments for more spending, resulting in more taxes and more benefits for the young population including the Board of Education, the Early Learning Center and more. The...
When the world looks in

By

Pippa Jack

Thu, May 5

Category:

Opinion

Ten years ago, on a brightly beautiful September day, I showed up to work at the Block Island Times office and heard, later than most, that a plane had hit Manhattan’s Twin Towers. It seemed so tangential at first. There was no TV in the office, then as now, so we trudged upstairs to a coworker’s...
Letters to the Editor, April 30

Wed, May 4

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— They say “Block Island is a great place to live!” Mostly because everyone is always willing to help one and other out. Well, I experienced this and not for the first time. On March 6, I returned from Haiti hoping and praying my friends would be available to help me move. (I was...
Letters to the Editor, April 23

Thu, Apr 28

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— I would like to thank the people who give of themselves unselfishly to help others Dr. Janice Miller, Gary Ryan. Kate McConville, Patty Murphy and officer Ed Harrison. On April 9 my husband needed assistance from the Rescue Squad. They arrived promptly, were professional and caring...
Island can't resist change forever

Thu, Apr 28

Category:

Opinion

The proposed new Ballard’s Inn would have been the largest development project on Block island in more than a century. It would have helped to expand the shoulder season by providing event and conference space. It would have added over 40 rooms to our high-end inventory of accommodations. The...
Clergy Corner, Easter 2011

Sun, Apr 24

Category:

Opinion

Dear Easter people and friends of Block Island: Across the earth, Christians and anyone listening hear the startling proclamation, HE IS RISEN AS HE SAID, RESURREXIT SICUT DIXIT! Once again in the long struggle with the incomprehensible, the human race meets the challenge of Faith without proof...
Letters to the Editor, April 16

Thu, Apr 21

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— Your coverage of the deliberations leading to the 2012 budget to be presented to the voters on May 2 was thorough, and the accompanying editorial congratulating the Town Council, finance director and town manager for their ability to hold the line was well deserved. And then you...
Parking can be fixed

Sun, Apr 17

Category:

Opinion

The New Shoreham Town Council records for April 1912 indicated that the council was considering taking some of the land across from the current National Hotel to provide for parking and widening the road. The purpose was for the “convenience and freedom from accident, freedom from downtown...
A job well done

Thu, Apr 14

Category:

Opinion

Kudos to all concerned for the great work on the proposed 2012 town budget. As newspaper headlines across the country tell tales of woe as towns and cities prepare their budgets, the town of New Shoreham has assembled a responsible plan and won cooperation from key stakeholders. Town employees and...
Letters to the Editor, April 9

Wed, Apr 13

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— I would like to thank Fran Migliaccio for putting the information (and picture) of the new baby goats at Beacon Hollow Farm in her column. I would also like to clarify the facts about the goats being born in the field. That the goats chose to give birth outside in the field is a...
Letters to the Editor, April 2

Fri, Apr 1

Category:

Letters

Island identities Last week it happened that I was on the Friday night boat when I first saw the Block Island Times. As usual, I glanced at the headlines then started flipping through the newsprint back to front and found myself at the obituary on page 16 doing a double take worthy of a cartoon...
Letters to the Editor, March 26

Fri, Apr 1

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— A certain amount of additional information needs to be focused on Dan West’s article on the town budget hearing from Wednesday, March 16, specifically under the subtitle ‘Harbormaster vs. Harbormaster.’ Last year $46,000 was approved for a year-round harbormaster who was appointed...
Letters to the Editor, March 19

Mon, Mar 21

Category:

Letters

03/19/11 - To: the Editor— We read Mr. Terry Mooney’s letter in the March 12 edition of the Block Island Times with interest and some concern for the accuracy of some of his statements about the Sewer Commission. Was the Sewer Commission really handling its business well? Its surplus monies were...
Everyone into the Pool -

Mon, Mar 14

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Editorial Cartoon

03/12/11-
This one's for Pete -

Mon, Mar 14

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Editorial Cartoon

03/05/11 -
Economic Upturn

Mon, Mar 14

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Editorial Cartoon

03/05/11 -
Featured Letter

Mon, Mar 14

Category:

Opinion

03/12/11 - To: the Editor– The time has long since passed to win the “hearts and minds” of one side or the other, or those neutral on the Deepwater Wind “demonstration project.” The time to inform debate for practical purposes is over. But that doesn’t suggest that dialogue shouldn’t continue,...
Letters to the Editor

Mon, Mar 14

Category:

Letters

03/12/11 - This letter was sent to the Block Island Health Services Board and copied to the Block Island Times: Your letter outlining the difficulties that the Medical Center is facing in fulfilling its mission of providing care for the Block Island community year-round, on a 24-hour, seven-day a...
Editorial: It’s all about community

Mon, Mar 7

Category:

Opinion

03/06/11 - Five years ago this month we became co-publishers of the Block Island Times. It continues to be a wonderful experience and we are deeply grateful to our loyal readers and supportive advertisers. As year round residents, we have come to appreciate this community and the people who live...
Letters: 2/26/11

Mon, Feb 28

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor – I am writing to comment on a very specific element regarding the dialogue on year-round employment for Block Island. The last letter on the topic imagined a list of potential industries for the island. Amongst the list, treated as no different from the other suggestions, was...
Letters to the Editor

Mon, Feb 21

Category:

Letters

02/19/11 To: the Editor— I have a question that I would like anyone to answer. I’m quoting the Block Island Times of about two years ago; an article entitled “BIRA studies cable, solar and wind options.” “BIPCo does, however, pay ‘avoidable’ costs back to renewable energy customers who are tied...
Letters: 2/12/11

Mon, Feb 14

Category:

Letters

To: the Editor— We would like to thank everyone who pitched in to help with the community skating rink. We would like to acknowledge the Block Island Volunteer Fire Dept. Ladies Auxiliary and the Block Island Lions Club for their generous financial support of the rink, as well as countless other...
Guest Opinion: Job creation as a justice issue

By

Steve Hollaway

Mon, Feb 14

Category:

Opinion

2/12/11 — Last week’s story by Robert Downie on the wireless station of 1903 evokes a wistfulness for a bygone day when Block Island was a place for cutting edge technology and business innovation. It’s hard to imagine in today’s frozen-in-time ethos where the only values are preservation and...
Block Island needs your attention and assistance

By

First Warden Kim Gaffett

Sat, Feb 12

Category:

Opinion

02/05/11 - Accomplishing the work of the town requires the help of all of its citizens. One important way to help is by selecting an area of island life that interests you and then serve on one of the town’s boards, committees or commissions that deals with that area of interest. Just as helpful as...
Featured Letter: Town Council seeks input

Mon, Feb 7

Category:

Opinion

The New Shoreham Town Council would like to formally ask for your help in coming up with ideas for the town property adjacent to the Surf Hotel corner in Old Harbor. It is our belief that our two lots in front of the National Hotel should be kept relatively natural but at the same time some sort of...
Wondering Winter: #9

Mon, Feb 7

Category:

Editorial Cartoon

02/05/11

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