On a cool and windy night in early September, a group of islanders and travelers watched “Maiden,” a sailing documentary, outdoors on the beach. The event, presented by Soundwaves (“Movies on the Beach”) and sponsored by the Block Island Yacht Club, was held to benefit the Block Island School, which would receive over 90 percent […]
Helping Hands of Block Island, the 501 (C)(3) non-profit that provides food to island residents in need, will be opening its food pantry in the basement of the Harbor Church on Wednesday Oct. 23 for the winter season. The food pantry operates from late October, through the winter, to the first week of May each
A celebration of Howie Rice’s life will be held at The 1661 Inn on Friday, Nov. 1, 2019 from 1 to 3 p.m. The community is invited. Memorial donations in memory of Howie can be made to Block Island Volunteer Rescue Squad, Box 214, Block Island, RI 02807. Read more on the Block Island Times
Sisters Giovanna and Aly Robson, 15 and 13 respectively, recently watched the documentary “Maiden” when it was shown at the beach during a SounWaves event, and said they were immediately impacted by the film’s message. Giovanna and Aly are both rowers, not sailors, and initially Aly said she had no interest in seeing the film,
UPDATE: Superior Court Judge Sarah Taft Carter ruled this morning, Wednesday, Oct. 16, against the temporary restraining order petitioned by the plaintiffs that would have halted construction of the single family home on the Thomas Property. “We had a hearing, a consolidated hearing of the police case and the Cathy Payne case, against the town
Police officers file suit against the town (UPDATED) Read More »
The following was submitted by Southeast Lighthouse Foundation Director Lisa Nolan: Due to adverse weather conditions expected for tomorrow, Thursday, Oct. 17, the US Coast Guard Aids-to Navigation Team from Bristol, R.I. has rescheduled the relight of Southeast Light’s historic Fresnel lens for Monday, Oct. 21. Thursday’s evening gathering to celebrate the relighting has been
The following message was issued by Block Island Power Co. President Jeffery Wright: We are in for a wild evening tonight and we expect some scattered power outages will occur. This storm is a mix of a nor’easter and a summer thunderstorm so we can expect the following… Winds: East gusting to 60 mph through
The application for creating dockage for Rhode Island Fast Ferry’s proposed seasonal high-speed ferry service from Quonset Pt. to Block Island has been sent back “deficient.” That’s according to Laura Dwyer, spokesperson for the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, who said, “The application was returned to the applicant as deficient.” The CRMC issued the notice of
National Grid and Deepwater Wind/Ørsted continue to collect information that will be used to design the reinstallation of sections of the electric transmission cables that became exposed in the surf zone at the Fred Benson Town Beach. As part of that effort, simultaneous benthic surveys of both National Grid’s sea2shore cable and Deepwater Wind/Ørsted’s export
