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Block Island has a robust community of art and artists, with many of them showing and selling their works at the Farmers Market and Arts and Crafts Guild Fairs during the summer and up until Columbus Day weekend. Now, for one day during the Holiday Shopping Stroll, visitors can find many of those artists for […]

The Block Island Holiday Shopping Stroll, now in its 31st year, has become one of Rhode Island’s premiere after-Thanksgiving shopping experiences. Downtown is transformed almost overnight into an enchanted village with wreaths and garlands, twinkling lights, and the signature Lobster Pot Tree.Over 40 stores will open their doors for this three-day shopping extravaganza. Did you

Are you left-handed? If so, Dan Cahill is looking for you.For the past 10 or so years, Dan has been giving the 100 left-handed people on Block Island (that he knows of) the annual Left Hander’s Calendar for Christmas. But this year, it is not being published. So Dan has an idea, let’s make our

Block Island Lions Club members Gail Ballard Hall, at left, and Pat Vacaitis, at right, presented donations totaling $10,000 to the Mary D. Fund, the Batchelder Scholarship Fund and the Helping Hands Food Pantry on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Marguerite Donnelly, second from left, accepted a donation of $5,000; Renee Batchelder, center, accepted a donation of

First Warden André Boudreau, (left) outgoing Representative Jim Langevin (center), Sean McGarry (back), and Shirlyne Gobern, at a thank you and farewell party for Langevin, who chose not to run for re-election this year after serving in Washington D.C. since 2001. (Courtesy photo) Read the rest of the article on the Block Island Times

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After months of sounding the alarm, the Block Island Water Company, under the supervision of John Breunig has finally gotten the attention of the Town Council.At a joint meeting of the Council and the joint boards of the water and sewer departments on Monday, November 14, Breunig walked council members Sven Risom, Keith Stover, and

After almost six months with no executive director at the Block Island Chamber of Commerce, that position has finally been filled. Chris Crawford, who moved to the island with his spouse, Maryanne Crawford, in July of 2020 when she became town manager, quickly involved himself in the community, doing freelance writing for The Block Island

John H. Wronowski was the son of Polish immigrants whose father worked in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. As a young man, he worked as a marine mechanic and electrician, all of which served him well when he became a partner in Interstate Navigation in the 1930s. Interstate Navigation, in a brief historical sketch of

On Tuesday, November 8, 2022 around 11:15 a.m., Harbormaster Kate McConville received a call that there was a sailboat very close to shore on the west side of the island. When she got to the scene, McConville told The Block Island Times, the vessel was among the rocks just south of the entrance to Dorry’s