“This topic is so complicated that most people don’t understand it enough to comment on it,” said resident and ratepayer David Lewis at the meeting of the Block Island Utility District on July 28.Lewis was speaking about net-metering, the mechanism by which ratepayers that generate solar power get credited for their excess production, but he […]
Nobel Prize winner and professor of Geosciences and International Affairs Dr. Michael Oppenheimer attended the Sea Level Rise Committee’s meeting on Tuesday as a special guest advisor.As a summer resident, Oppenheimer spends most of his summers on Block Island and he will be speaking at the Block Island Utility District’s Annual Meeting on August 27,
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The Town Council on Monday couldn’t avoid frustrating an already frustrated public even more. The meeting was held the day after the 30-year “moped settlement agreement” expired on July 31. Renegotiating that agreement is underway, but the conversations are happening behind closed doors as litigation is ongoing between the parties. There are currently five mopedrental
It was very early Saturday morning, actually 7 a.m., when volunteers came into the swim area, each performing specific tasks to prepare for the swim. A series of buoys are set out to a half-mile mark and swimmers go along the buoy line to the last mark, turn around and head back to shore. This
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John Formica really didn’t retire in 2019, at least not from personal challenges. Having raised, over his professional career as an accountant, almost $1 million for multiple sclerosis, he wheeled his way over to the PANMass challenge where he’ll head out this Saturday on the start of a two-day race covering 160 miles from west
On Tuesday, August 9 at 7 p.m., the Block Island Maritime Institute (BIMI) welcomes back internationally-acclaimed climate scientist Dr. Michael Oppenheimer for a talk entitled “Climate change, sea level rise, the U.S. policy landscape, and implications for Block Island.” His talk is co-sponsored by the Block Island Historical Society.Oppenheimer’s current research focuses on sea level
The Block Island Historical Society is celebrating two major wins this year. First, we are marking the eightieth anniversary of our founders chartering the organization in 1942. It will be celebrated with a Gala on Saturday August 20 (visit our website for more information). The founders, who included such island residents as Gladys Steadman, Lester
Pamela DuLong Williams will be exhibiting at the Spring Street Gallery, 105 Spring Street, from August 6 to 18.DuLong Williams has been painting, teaching and exhibiting on Block Island since 1980. In 1997 she left the island and moved to South Berwick, Maine. She has continued to paint and teach workshops on the island as
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After a two-year pandemic pause, Sean and Leslie Hartnett are once again opening their studios at Southwest Point to show their recent work. Sean’s organic, sensual sculpture in marble and onyx, and Leslie’s terracotta majolica reliefs adorn many homes on the island.The couple have pursued their careers for many years, dividing their time between their
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The Block Island Triathlon starts at 9 a.m. on Saturday August 6 at Fred Benson Town Beach. Race packet pickup will be Friday, August 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday, August 6, from 7 to 8:30 a.m.The bicycle portion of the race begins around 9:15 a.m. at the beach and racers will head