April 2019

Block Island Times

Southeast Light getting its facelift

Restoration work at Block Island’s historic and iconic Southeast Lighthouse is moving ahead. Since last September, Abcore Restoration Co. Inc. of Narragansett, R.I. has been on-site carefully bracing the lighthouse tower, preserving and restoring original cast-iron components on the lighthouse decks, the lantern drum, and tower’s internal staircase, and removing a number of severely deteriorated

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Block Island Times

Eco double feature

The following was submitted by The Nature Conservancy and the Island Free Library: Island Free Library and The Nature Conservancy’s April Film & Soup offering will be featuring two short documentaries (30 minutes each): “Smog of the Sea” and “Straws.” Watch these short films about the plight of plastics in our oceans, learn what you can

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