Block Island Times

The topic of dock storage during the winter months at Rat Island turned from a seemingly innocuous item on the Town Council’s agenda into a lengthy discussion regarding the topic, at a recent council meeting. Town Manager Ed Roberge said the matter was initially brought to him by aquaculture farmer Chris Warfel in March of […]

The possibility of building a municipal pool for year-round use made a reappearance at the Recreation Board meeting this past week. Board member Colleen Ernst brought the topic up at the tail end of the group’s monthly meeting, and while Recreation Department Director Dave Sniffen said the challenges of a pool are many, the subject would

John Cullen was in no mood to mince his words. “It’s a pain in the ass,” he said. “It’s not fun.” The unlikely subject of this particular piece of dialogue was the tree lighting ceremony that Cullen, as a member of the Tourism Board, sets up each year. He said that getting others to help set

Town Manager Ed Roberge submitted a letter of resignation to the New Shoreham Town Council on Monday, Oct. 21. The resignation will be effective Dec. 20, Roberge told The Block Island Times this morning. Roberge said he was not going to comment further on the matter. Roberge was appointed Town Manager in September 2017 and

This Sunday and Monday, Oct. 20 and 21, the Block Island community will be able to hear members of Musica Dolce in performances at St. Andrew’s Parish Center and the Block Island School.   Musica Dolce, a chamber music ensemble started more than twenty five years ago by retired University of Rhode Island music professor, Dr.

In response to a restraining order petitioned by five New Shoreham Police Officers that is designed, in part, to halt construction of a single family dwelling designed for a town employee, the defendants are claiming the lawsuit and the attendant restraining order are without merit. In a motion filed on Tuesday, Oct. 8, the defendants —

The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council says that the application for installing fixed pier dockage at Block Island’s Old Harbor to serve Rhode Island Fast Ferry’s seasonal high-speed ferry service from Quonset Pt. is deficient and contains issues that need to be addressed. Laura Dwyer, spokesperson for the CRMC, said, “The application was returned to

A newly-formed group called the Solar Initiative is holding an inaugural meeting designed to inform residents about a federal program that would allow homeowners to generate solar energy that could be sold back to the local power company at current market rates. The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) was implemented to encourage,

Firefighters, rescue, and medical personnel were dispatched to battle an early morning fire at the Gothic Inn on Friday, Oct. 11. The fire was extinguished in less than three hours and there were no injuries. According to the run report filed by the department, crews were dispatched at 6:43 a.m. “for a possible electrical fire

The main meeting room at Town Hall was overflowing for the Planning Board’s Public Hearing on the proposed changes to the definition of developable land. The issue is whether or not conservation and open space easements should be considered in the calculation of developable land within the subdivision regulations. The Planning Board voted unanimously at the