Block Island Times

There is now another town anchor institution included in the high speed broadband network: the town Highways Department located on Ocean Avenue. And like some of the other facilities in the network, the new internet speeds are proving that the old equipment the department is using is inadequate to the task due to the new […]

Text and photos by Lars Trodson It’s a beautiful day. The sun is shining, bouncing brightly off the calm waters of the Great Salt Pond. Just a little way off-shore, three Colgate 26s are sitting idly in the sun. It’s before noon on a Sunday, and the Block Island Club is empty. A couple then

A group of art enthusiasts are seeking an island property to serve as their home base for an artist collaborative organization they are developing. The endeavor, called the “On-Island Collaborative,” is being spearheaded by Ben Martin, John Warfel, and Sue Black, along with members of the local artists’ community, with the goal of creating a

“It’s a good story,” said Father Robert Randall, and indeed it is. This is the story of how the St. Andrew Parish Center, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary on Sunday, Sept. 22, came to life. “The first thing you should know is that no one thought it could be done and no reasonable man

A positive test for eastern equine encephalitis has been reported on Block Island.  The deadly mosquito-borne virus EEE has been reported in various locales around the State of Rhode Island and in neighboring Massachusetts  A 50-year old West Warwick man died from the virus on Sunday. Bill McCombe, co-Director of Block Island’s Emeegency Management program,

Town of New Shoreham PO BOX 220, Block Island RI 02807 Invitation to Bid for Library Replacement Windows The Town of New Shoreham is seeking bids to furnish and install replacement windows at the Island Free Library. The scope of work includes the following: Removal of eight (8) fixed light windows on the south side

Pastor Peter Preiser, at left, along with Pat Tengwall, second from right, and Peter Greenman, Director of the Block Island Blood Drive, accept a proclamation signed by Gov. Gina Raimondo from Rennie Maurice-Simmons of the R.I. Blood Center for 40 years of Blood Drives on Block Island. Courtesy photo Read more on the Block Island

During a recent visit to Block Island, Congressman Jim Langevin said that a better educated population will be the true savior of the republic and its election processes. After the attempts to meddle in the 2016 elections by various nations, primarily Russia, Langevin said the country was “better prepared in 2018 and we’re ready for

The Block Island Wind Farm seems to have piqued the curiosity of other communities, which are eager to learn how the wind turbines were installed, and how the island made the conversion to offshore wind energy. One of those communities is Hull, Massachusetts, a small seaside town situated on a peninsula near Boston. The town,

Ken Nomiyama does not remember living in a Japanese internment camp during the 1940s. He was born in one in 1942, and his family left the camp in Tule Lake, California in 1946. He and his parents returned to their home in Alameda, California, where they were living before the war. Nomiyama’s father, born in America in