The Rhode Island Department of Health issued a lengthy statement on Monday, Feb. 24, detailing efforts the state is making in terms of responding to the possible appearance of coronavirus in the state. The Director of Security at Interstate Navigation and co-director of the town’s Emergency Management Agency, Bill McCombe, also said the ferry company […]
The Island Free Library Board of Trustees reviewed updates on its building and grounds, including window replacements, a solar project, and a new water fountain. The condition of the windows at the Library has been a topic of discussion for some time. Library Director Kristin Baumann said that new windows had been ordered, but she
It really wasn’t much of a winter on Block Island — or hasn’t been so far — which prompted recent postings on social media about the appearance of birds that usually arrive in the spring. Was this the effect of global warming? Was it in fact not really an anomaly at all? The Block Island
The Block Island Ferry made the following announcement this morning: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH: THE 6:30AM FROM POINT JUDITH AND THE 8:15AM FROM BLOCK ISLAND WILL BE RUNNING ON SCHEDULE. THE REMAINING TRIPS ARE CANCELLED FOR TODAY. TO RESCHEDULE VEHICLE RESERVATIONS AND FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE RESERVATION OFFICE WHEN IT OPENS AT 8AM 1-866-783-7996.
About a year ago, an application for a solar array that was before the Planning Board was not approved, in part, according to island resident Chris Warfel, because the town’s Zoning Board and Planning Board had different interpretations of the ordinance that regulates solar panel installations. In the year since that application was denied, Warfel,
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Town Manager Jim Kern will remain actively involved in the project that will re-bury the two undersea transmission cables that come ashore at Crescent Beach, and said a major concern still remains about the cable being out of service for perhaps weeks, which means high speed internet provided to the Block Island School, the Medical
(360 VIDEO) Walk through the Hodge Family Wildlife Preserve on Corn Neck Road, courtesy of The Block Island Times. Watch the video all the way through, to see the landscape open up to Middle Pond and its surrounding diverse environments. Note: Turn up the volume to fully immerse yourself in the environment, and pause, and
Sometimes the process works, and to the benefit of all. In January, the Shellfish Commission began the process of reviewing a request from Sun Farm Oysters, owned by Chris Warfel, to relocate a portion of his aquaculture lease in Trims’s Pond. At the Shellfish Commission’s meeting on January 21, Warfel explained to the commissioners that
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Many islanders use the Groundhog Day count to answer the question: how many people actually live on the island? We often reply to that question with answers like, around a thousand, or just under a thousand or the number itself, when we can remember the number and not confuse this year’s count with a number
On Wednesday, Feb. 19 at Town Hall, First Warden Ken Lacoste announced in open session that a lawsuit brought by members of the New Shoreham Police Department against various town officials, including members of the Planning Board, the Town Council and former Town Manager Ed Roberge, had been dismissed. The suit claimed that the town