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This Sunday and Monday, Oct. 20 and 21, the Block Island community will be able to hear members of Musica Dolce in performances at St. Andrew’s Parish Center and the Block Island School.   Musica Dolce, a chamber music ensemble started more than twenty five years ago by retired University of Rhode Island music professor, Dr. […]

In response to a restraining order petitioned by five New Shoreham Police Officers that is designed, in part, to halt construction of a single family dwelling designed for a town employee, the defendants are claiming the lawsuit and the attendant restraining order are without merit. In a motion filed on Tuesday, Oct. 8, the defendants —

The Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council says that the application for installing fixed pier dockage at Block Island’s Old Harbor to serve Rhode Island Fast Ferry’s seasonal high-speed ferry service from Quonset Pt. is deficient and contains issues that need to be addressed. Laura Dwyer, spokesperson for the CRMC, said, “The application was returned to

A newly-formed group called the Solar Initiative is holding an inaugural meeting designed to inform residents about a federal program that would allow homeowners to generate solar energy that could be sold back to the local power company at current market rates. The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) was implemented to encourage,

Firefighters, rescue, and medical personnel were dispatched to battle an early morning fire at the Gothic Inn on Friday, Oct. 11. The fire was extinguished in less than three hours and there were no injuries. According to the run report filed by the department, crews were dispatched at 6:43 a.m. “for a possible electrical fire

The main meeting room at Town Hall was overflowing for the Planning Board’s Public Hearing on the proposed changes to the definition of developable land. The issue is whether or not conservation and open space easements should be considered in the calculation of developable land within the subdivision regulations. The Planning Board voted unanimously at the

The Island Free Library has relaunched its website. The website, which was commissioned a year ago by the library’s Board of Trustees, features a more user friendly platform than its previous incarnation. The staff said the response to the website has been good, so far. The website was launched mid-summer, but the staff continues to refine

Ladies and gentleman, buckle up. It’s volleyball season! Yes, volleyball. To be exact: girls varsity volleyball. For those of you who were unable to follow last season, the girls finished with a 7-9 record — making it to the quarterfinals and losing to Narragansett. As you can imagine, this left a sour taste in the

Aside from cleaning, clearing and connecting the Greenway trails on the island, the Block Island Conservancy also preserved 30 acres of new land in the past year, including the acquisition of Hull Pond. These were some of the statistics and data offered by Executive Director Clair Stover Comings and others at the BIC’s Annual Meeting on

UPDATE: The Housing Board announced the five winners of homes in the Cherry Hill Lane development at Town Hall last night. They are (in order of selection): Bernice Johnson, Joe DeMatteo, Shannon and Louis Marsella, Jessica Wood, and Vivian Donis and Jorge Morales. Johnson and DeMatteo won a two-bedroom home, while the other three winners