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Recreation Department Director Dave Sniffen has announced that the Fred Benson Beach Pavilion is now open with limited services. According to Sniffen, the Beach House restrooms will be open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. There is a lifeguard on duty. Showers are not open yet due to COVID-19 restrictions, and […]

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During her press briefing today, Monday, June 15, Gov. Gina Raimondo addressed issues raised about passengers on the Block Island Ferry not wearing masks this past weekend: Raimondo said her office had received “a lot of complaints over the weekend: too crowded and very few people wearing masks. I want to address that for a

Working with what First Warden Ken Lacoste described as a “complicated agenda,” the Town Council approved measures that will move forward two pressing needs for the town: the search for a new town manager and the project to rebury two sections of cable connected to the Block Island Wind Farm. The Town Council met via

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Due to a delivery mixup, there will be no hard copy edition of The Block Island Times delivered today, Friday, June 12. The papers will be available tomorrow, Saturday, June 13, in the afternoon. You can catch up on the latest stories at blockislandtimes.com, or if you have an e-edition subscription. Sorry for the inconvenience,

The Block Island Times asked the members of the graduating class to tell us a little bit about themselves, their favorite memories of their time at school, what their personal goals were, and what they think college will look like in the fall. Here are the senior portraits in their own words.   Jacques Boudreau

This is the year of adjustments, and the folks at Ballard’s Inn are determined to bring to its guests the traditional Ballard’s experience in the summer of 2020, but with the necessary protocols and guidelines the season requires. Owner Steve Filippi has spent the pre-season moving around tables, chairs, tents so that guests can spread

Block Island School Teacher Kathleen Hemingway has been teaching her fifth grade class on the American Revolution at the Block Island School. The U.S. War of Independence was fought between 1775 and 1783 by colonists seeking to gain independence from Britain. “The fifth graders have been working really hard on our unit of the American

Uncertainty and flexibility. Adjustments. “Everything is speculative.” These were the phrases hovering over the Town Council’s review of the 2021 municipal budget at its meeting on Monday, June. 8. “Before we get into the details of the budget, I want to pick up on the theme of uncertainty and flexibility because those are probably the