The Town of New Shoreham is re-introducing a virtual option in accordance with the state’s response to the continued growth of Covid cases. On January 6, Governor Daniel McKee issued Executive Order 22-01, which permits meetings to be held virtually, and also requires public bodies to provide remote access to their meetings, even if they […]
There are three weekly Covid vaccine clinics scheduled for Block Island starting on Thursday, Jan. 20. Subsequent clinics will be on January 27, and February 3. Clinics will be held at the Rescue Barn on Beach Avenue from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.Participants must sign up on the vaccinateRI.org website. If using the search option
The Block Island Medical Center’s “Community Conversation” will focus on behavioral health on Block Island in a three-part series runningin January and February. During this time the Medical Center will be responding to questions from readers of The Block Island Times.There will also be a three-part series on the Medical Center podcast letstalkaboutitbi available on
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The Senior Advisory Committee is offering free monthly health checks for people of any age. The next session is on Monday, January 17. The health checks will include blood pressure screening, heart rate and pulse oxygen levels, and provide help with questions on medication,nutrition, weight management, and any other concerns. The health checks will take
To the Block Island community, Happy New Year Block Island! I am excited to share some advancements at the Block Island Health Services for 2022. During 2021, we began putting key elements into place to transform the medical center into a comprehensive primary care health facility that is focused on your quality care outcomes and
Superintendent Bob Gerardi presented the Block Island School’s budget concerns to the Town Council on Monday night with a mix of “unanticipated” decreases in revenue and “unanticipated” increases in expenses. Calling it a “challenging budget year,” Gerardi explained that the school was anticipating a $154,000 decrease in state funding. He called it a “71 percent
The New Shoreham Tourism Council seems to have a highly unusual problem – more money than they know what to do with. Whether it’s the result of more and more tourists, or more money being charged for hotel rooms and rental houses, or all three, the Tourism Council has an excess of funds. The Council
Savannah Brown, who graduated as Salutatorian from the Block Island High School in 2021, continues to pursue her passion for volleyball by playing on Providence College’s Women’s Club Volleyball team. Brown played at the high school since her sophomore year. “I really liked playing in high school. I loved my coaches and the position I
The five moped operators appeared before the New Shoreham Town Council on Tuesday night to request renewals of rental licenses for the 2022 summer season. Always a contentious affair, last year’s renewal process went on for several months and required the town’s legal counsel to log a few hours before the council finally granted the
Covid cases are on the rise across the country as the highly transmissible Omicron variant makes the rounds. With Omicron making up 60 percent of cases in the state, Rhode Island is no exception, as Director of the Block Island Medical Center, Dr. Tom Warcup, explained to the New Shoreham Town Council at its first