A show of hands at the annual Financial Town Meeting granted the town the authorization to spend up to $1.5 million to fund the construction of two dwellings for town employees, a move that supporters hope will be the first step towards solving the island’s rental housing shortage. The $1.5 million bond passed by a […]
Block Island’s Senior Advisory Committee may have discovered a valuable resource in its efforts to bolster services and programs to meet the needs of the island’s seniors who wish to age in place. Gloria Redlich, SAC’s Senior Coordinator, told The Block Island Times that the resource is Bill Flynn, the Executive Director of the Providence-based nonprofit
Every house has a biography. It has a birth date; most have an end date. Each home has a personality, and many stories to tell. It’s difficult to find out too much about a house just by looking at it, but one project initiated by Scenic Block Island is designed to speak a little bit
The Conservation Commission weighed in on several projects at its meeting on Tuesday, and even proposed one of its own — installing a water-bottle filling station somewhere in the downtown area. Commissioner Don Littlefield suggested putting the filling station near the Chamber of Commerce’s Welcome Center in Old Harbor. Although water is available at the
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On the quiet Sunday afternoon of April 22, a dozen or so island residents gathered at the Island Free Library for what they initially thought was a talk by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. They quickly learned there had been a miscommunication and the Senator would not be present, which prompted a voice from the audience to
The New Shoreham Town Council is pondering how town-owned parks and playgrounds should be regulated, and what kind of policy, or policies, should be implemented for events that are hosted by the public on those properties. Margie Comings, Chair of the Old Harbor Task Force, met with the Town Council at a recent meeting to
The following was submitted by NAMI-Block Island: The title of NAMI-Block Island’s second annual spring conference, “Depression: A Community Conversation — What do we know? What can we do?,” invites the public to learn about depression as a mental illness, its causes, treatments, and attitudes, and how to treat these conditions. From a funny and touching film
On what Harbormaster Steve Land described as ”a sunny, fun day,” 34,000 clams were deposited from a boat into the Great Salt Pond as part of the New Shoreham Harbors Department’s and the Shellfish Commission’s joint annual restocking effort. Land told The Block Island Times that resident Jon Grant donated his boat for the endeavor,
After a winter of showing films, Common Ground Coffeehouse welcomes spring with the beginning of music season. Fingerstyle guitarist and folk singer Allysen Callery returns on Friday, May 11. The Coffeehouse will host the kickoff of NAMI-Block Island’s Spring Conference on May 18, showing the one-hour film “Every Brilliant Thing,” followed by music from Celtic-bluegrass-roots
Essays from Mrs. Hart’s kindergarten class: My mother looks good like me but she has blond hair and great clothes. She has good shorts. They are so pretty. She looks happy and cool. She always helps us clean up. And she lets me use grown up scissors to make projects for Mrs. Hart. She always makes