The following was submitted by Southeast Lighthouse Foundation Director Lisa Nolan: Due to adverse weather conditions expected for tomorrow, Thursday, Oct. 17, the US Coast Guard Aids-to Navigation Team from Bristol, R.I. has rescheduled the relight of Southeast Light’s historic Fresnel lens for Monday, Oct. 21. Thursday’s evening gathering to celebrate the relighting has been […]
The following message was issued by Block Island Power Co. President Jeffery Wright: We are in for a wild evening tonight and we expect some scattered power outages will occur. This storm is a mix of a nor’easter and a summer thunderstorm so we can expect the following… Winds: East gusting to 60 mph through
The application for creating dockage for Rhode Island Fast Ferry’s proposed seasonal high-speed ferry service from Quonset Pt. to Block Island has been sent back “deficient.” That’s according to Laura Dwyer, spokesperson for the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, who said, “The application was returned to the applicant as deficient.” The CRMC issued the notice of
National Grid and Deepwater Wind/Ørsted continue to collect information that will be used to design the reinstallation of sections of the electric transmission cables that became exposed in the surf zone at the Fred Benson Town Beach. As part of that effort, simultaneous benthic surveys of both National Grid’s sea2shore cable and Deepwater Wind/Ørsted’s export
The New Shoreham Town Council received reports and requests from some of its advisory boards, commissions and committees at its work session on Oct. 2. Some topics discussed during the two-hour discussion were fortifying a section of Crescent Beach, the restoration of Nicholas Ball Park, affordable housing, signage enforcement, traffic congestion, the amount of taxis
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The Charter Review Commission has rolled up its sleeves and begun work on advising the New Shoreham Town Council regarding potential amendments to the town’s Home Rule Charter. The Charter is the governing document for the Town of New Shoreham, and includes articles and provisions for the town’s rules and procedures. The commission decided at
On Friday, Oct. 4, Ed Roberge and I attended the R.I. Energy, Environment & Oceans Leaders Day at the R.I. Convention Center. The event is an opportunity to gather together Rhode Island’s leading experts from the scientific community, environmental advocacy groups, state and local leaders, and academia to interact and confront contemporary environmental issues facing Rhode
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The activities of the Block Island Health Services Board of Directors and questions of its transparency have been the subject of public debate and in letters to the editor at The Block Island Time for some time. A recent letter asked the newspaper to review the by-laws that govern the members of the board, which
This past August, the members of the Block Island Maritime Institute installed a 1,000 gallon aquarium with a huge window that allows visitors to see the marine life that is usually hidden beneath the surf. The tank is stocked with scup, mature bluefish, black sea bass, fluke, a striper, adult toadfish and a trigger fish,
The R.I. Department of Environmental Management has announced the start of duck hunting season. The season opens on Columbus Day weekend, Friday, Oct. 11 through Oct. 14, and also open on the weekends of Nov. 27 to Dec. 1, 2019, and then open again on Dec. 7, 2019 through Jan. 26, 2020. According to the