One first name exchanged for another on a donation letter sent out by the Block island Health Services Board of Directors has opened some old wounds. On the letter seeking donations, dated July 2019, the members of the Board of Directors are listed on the left-hand side of the letterhead. One name that should have […]
For the past several months, the sights and sounds coming out of the Surf Hotel have been those of table saws, hammering, along with a boatload of carpenters, electricians and assorted craftspeople working overtime to get ready for the scheduled opening on Monday, July 1. The morning of July 1 broke beautifully clear and warm,
Bill Comings tells of the first time he set foot on Block Island. “I came here involuntarily at the age of 18 months,” he said, laughing. “My parents rented a house at Red Gate Farm.” He and his wife Margie bought their first plot of land in 1966 (they were high school sweethearts having met
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A senior ride discount program that was launched last winter that provided reduced-cost rides with local taxi cabs was so successful, the members of the Senior Advisory Committee hope to keep the program going year-round. While local taxi-cab owners and drivers were sympathetic to the need, they expressed some reservations about providing the service during
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During last week’s Storm Trysail Block Island Race Week, there were many local participants who performed well, including: Greg Slamowitz, aboard his J 111 Manitou, in the very competitive PERF1 class division; Mark Masiello on his Friendship 40 Tenderly in the performance cruising spinnaker class; Orrin Starr aboard the professionally-crewed Fox, an IRC 52; Kenn
Block Island’s North Lighthouse Interpretive Center will open to the public for the 2019 season on Friday, July 5 at 10 a.m. The maritime museum features exhibits on the history of the 1867 granite lighthouse and the three earlier lighthouses that were built at the tip of the island to warn mariners away from the
(360 VIDEO) Journey down the rocky breakwater at Old Harbor with The Block Island Times on a sunny, 80-degree day. #PerfectSummerDay Classic Site Solutions, a Massachusetts-based contractor engaged by the Army Corps of Engineers to correct damage inflicted by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, completed its work on the stone wall in May of 2017. It’s
The following was submitted by Jessie Edwards Studio: “At Sea,” a selection of oils from Cynthia Guild’s Freighter Series will be on exhibit from Friday, June 28 to Wednesday, July 10 at the Jessie Edwards Studio on the second floor the Post Office building. The opening reception is on Saturday, June 29, from 5 to
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Leigh Klonsky’s first exhibition on Block Island, “Long After Me,” features two bodies of work: the Beach Trash Series and the Tree Bags Series, both addressing human consumption, waste, and the natural world. The opening reception is Saturday, June 29 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Spring Street Gallery. Klonsky first developed her work