The following press release was sent to The Block Island Times: PROVIDENCE, RI – Days after the shooting in Parkland, Florida, Governor Gina M. Raimondo was the first governor in America to sign an executive order establishing a Red Flag policy. Today, with House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello, Senate President Dominick Ruggerio and members of the […]
“Collusion!” Ray Torrey joked when he was informed that multiple people had successfully nominated him for the 2018 Bayberry Wreath Award. Torrey is the 35th recipient of the honor, which was started by Peter and Sally Wood in 1984. Torrey now joins a long list of island residents who have a longstanding volunteer commitment to
Rhode Island’s law that bans the use of a handheld device while driving a motor vehicle goes into effect on Friday, June 1, 2018. Taxicab driver’s are partially exempt from the law, which stipulates that taxicab drivers are permitted to operate a handheld device when no passengers are present in their vehicle. There are 34
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed has proposed almost $3 million in funding for two Block Island projects, one for dredging in Old Harbor and the other to do maintenance dredging in the entrance channel of the Great Salt Pond. The monies are included in the 2019 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations bill that
In the early morning hours of Thursday, May 24, the Block Island Power Company successfully, and without notice, tested switching over from the electric transmission cable from the mainland to its generators, and back again. “We’ve proven we can do it,” said BIPCo President Jeffery Wright of the process of going from the cable to
“We’re working on something really cool that was brought to me by people in the community,” said Island Free Library Director Kristin Baumann at a recent Board of Trustees meeting. “We’re on the list to get a water fountain,” she said, noting that once it’s installed, people can refill their “water bottle, as opposed to buying