The Island Free Library has relaunched its website. The website, which was commissioned a year ago by the library’s Board of Trustees, features a more user friendly platform than its previous incarnation. The staff said the response to the website has been good, so far. The website was launched mid-summer, but the staff continues to refine […]
Ladies and gentleman, buckle up. It’s volleyball season! Yes, volleyball. To be exact: girls varsity volleyball. For those of you who were unable to follow last season, the girls finished with a 7-9 record — making it to the quarterfinals and losing to Narragansett. As you can imagine, this left a sour taste in the
Aside from cleaning, clearing and connecting the Greenway trails on the island, the Block Island Conservancy also preserved 30 acres of new land in the past year, including the acquisition of Hull Pond. These were some of the statistics and data offered by Executive Director Clair Stover Comings and others at the BIC’s Annual Meeting on
UPDATE: The Housing Board announced the five winners of homes in the Cherry Hill Lane development at Town Hall last night. They are (in order of selection): Bernice Johnson, Joe DeMatteo, Shannon and Louis Marsella, Jessica Wood, and Vivian Donis and Jorge Morales. Johnson and DeMatteo won a two-bedroom home, while the other three winners
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On a cool and windy night in early September, a group of islanders and travelers watched “Maiden,” a sailing documentary, outdoors on the beach. The event, presented by Soundwaves (“Movies on the Beach”) and sponsored by the Block Island Yacht Club, was held to benefit the Block Island School, which would receive over 90 percent
Helping Hands of Block Island, the 501 (C)(3) non-profit that provides food to island residents in need, will be opening its food pantry in the basement of the Harbor Church on Wednesday Oct. 23 for the winter season. The food pantry operates from late October, through the winter, to the first week of May each
A celebration of Howie Rice’s life will be held at The 1661 Inn on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019 from 1 to 3 p.m. The community is invited. Memorial donations in memory of Howie can be made to Block Island Volunteer Rescue Squad, Box 214, Block Island, RI 02807. Read more on the Block Island Times
Sisters Giovanna and Aly Robson, 15 and 13 respectively, recently watched the documentary “Maiden” when it was shown at the beach during a SounWaves event, and said they were immediately impacted by the film’s message. Giovanna and Aly are both rowers, not sailors, and initially Aly said she had no interest in seeing the film,
UPDATE: Superior Court Judge Sarah Taft Carter ruled this morning, Wednesday, Oct. 16, against the temporary restraining order petitioned by the plaintiffs that would have halted construction of the single family home on the Thomas Property. “We had a hearing, a consolidated hearing of the police case and the Cathy Payne case, against the town
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