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Lyle Carey is on two missions. His primary mission is his service in the United States Marine Corps, in which he enlisted in 2016. Carey is with the First Battallion, 8th Marine Weapons Company and is on his second deployment, currently stationed in Norway. Carey is a 2010 graduate of the Block Island School, and […]

The following was submitted by the Island Free Library: Morgan Walsh, the Youth Services Librarian at the Island Free Library, has been selected to participate in the Young Adult Library Services Association and Association for Rural and Small Libraries’ Future Ready with the Library project. Morgan is one of 16 participants selected to participate in the

Grace Luddy’s show this year at The Spring Street Gallery is called “Being Home” and is a celebration of our place in the natural world. The show runs from Saturday, Aug. 31 through Friday, Sept. 13. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, Aug. 31 from 5 to 7 p.m. This is what she

Stroll down Payne’s Dock on a sunny August 26 courtesy of The Block Island Times. The temperature was hovering in the low 70s with gusting 15 mile-per-hour winds out of the northeast. (Note: The wind was whistling pretty good, so you might want to adjust your audio level accordingly.) (Pause or click on the 360

As part of the network pre-engineering for an Island-wide broadband project, The Town of New Shoreham is undertaking a field survey of aerial and underground electric and telecommunications utilities on Block Island.Five technicians from Mountain, LTD will be on the Island beginning Monday, August 26 through Friday, August 30, 2019. All technicians will have photo

Sailing certainly isn’t for everyone, and it certainly wasn’t at first for sisters Cally and Chloe Weber. “I hated it. I just did not like it,” said Chloe, who is 15. Of her sister Cally, she said, “She hated it more than I did.” “I would throw tantrums,” said Cally, 14. But then something happened.

Veteran Block Island sailor Bob “Red” Closter was the winner of the 36th annual Harold Madison Yacht Race hosted by the Block Island Club on Saturday, Aug. 10. Fair skies and strong, gusty west-northwest winds greeted the fleet gathered for a start just outside the entrance to the Great Salt Pond. Seven boats registered and

With his new series of watercolors, “Island Maritime Paintings,” Bill Hall continues to chart the history of Block Island’s boats, its community of fishermen, and the ways in which fishing has changed over the decades. They are on exhibit at the Jessie Edwards Studio on the second floor of the Post Office building from Friday,

The fate of one family could be very different today if not for the extraordinary efforts made by members of the Harbors and the Block Island Volunteer Fire and Rescue Departments. In about 10 minutes, not a moment was lost, and two lives were saved. It was Sunday, Aug. 18, and Harbors Assistant Kate McConville

Three artists — Cynthia DiDonato, Elinor C. Thompson and Susan Klas Wright  — will be exhibiting at Spring Street Gallery in their new show “I Left My Heart on Block Island,” which opens Saturday, Aug. 24 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m.  All three Rhode Island artists are a part a plein-air group