In 1967, a travel writer visited Block Island. The writer worked for The Providence Journal, and like all reporters in the United States at the time, saw his nation divided on many social and cultural fronts. Newspaper reporters had their hands full in the summer of 1967 as civil unrest exploded across the nation’s major […]
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Tai chi is a simple, gentle, holistic exercise system performed slowly, but its benefits can have major positive health benefits for those who do it, according to Block Island physical therapist and Tai chi instructor, Tom Hobin. Hobin conducts a class weekly on Wednesdays from 4 to 4:50 p.m. at the Block Island Community Center
Mainland grid power worries had the commissioners of the Block Island Utility District mulling the need for disaster planning at their latest meeting on December 20. After attending a meeting on the mainland, Block Island Power Company President Jeffery Wright said that ISO New England, the operator of the regional power grid was warning of
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As if to prove a point, Mother Nature unleashed a whopper of a storm just a few days after the New Shoreham Sea Level Rise Committee’s December meeting. The storm that started late Thursday night did most of its damage locally during the high tide Friday morning, December 23, as waves washed over low-lying areas
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As 2022 comes to a close, some of Block Island’s biggest news stories will also go the way of the calendar and some will stick around well into the new year, and perhaps, beyond.This year, islanders closed the books on the Champlin’s Marina expansion as after almost 20 years the Rhode Island Supreme Court made
In the recently digitized Elizabeth Ann Evans collection is a small newspaper clipping. It reads in part, “The recent misfortune of the Nelseco II, which broke her crank shaft when entering Newport harbor on Sunday, resulted in the most modern transportation of mail, delivery by air. It was already a matter of conjecture when this
Officer Doug Borden had a crazy idea, and he has many, always delivered with a mischievous smile.Whether it’s greeting the ferry passengers as they disembark with song, dog biscuits for furry friends, or dancing ‘a welcome’ to the island.This idea was different and was spawned from his years with the East Providence Police force where
“This has been kind of cool,” said George Davis, vice-chair of the Shellfish Commission at its meeting on Tuesday. Davis was speaking of the grand experiment he and others on the Shellfish Commission conducted over the course of the past year.The goal was to see if soft-shell clams could be successfully grown from seed and
Ballard’s Inn Realty LLC has applied to the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council for permission to have temporary “mobile” structures on the beach at the facility during the summer season and is requesting that a beach perimeter be established for their location. The CRMC cited the beachside venue in September for several violations in
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