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A relatively small number of seabirds and other waterbirds washing up dead on beaches is normal this time of year, but in the past several weeks multiple locations along the Atlantic Coast, including Block Island and other places in Rhode Island, have seen higher than usual numbers. Due to the recent outbreak of highly pathogenic […]

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in cooperation with the Town of New Shoreham, has implemented a temporary closure of the beach beyond the North Light trail to off-roadvehicles due to the impending hatch of piping plover chicks. Those with a Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) permit for beach driving are asked to park

Ballard’s Beach ResortJohn Brazile: July 1, 2, 5Pop Rocks: July 1 – 4DJ Maxx Major: July 2, 3, 4Kevin Herchen : July 3, 4Royal Blue: July 5, 6Country Fest: July 7 Captain Nick’sFever: July 1, 2, 3Delaney on the sunshine deck: 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. July 1Rob Davis on the sunshine deck: 5:30 to 9

he Block Island Maritime Institute’s Tuesday Night Talk on July 5 will feature Dr. Helen M. Rozwadowski. Join us Tuesday at 7 p.m. as Dr. Rozwadowski discusses the subject of her latest book, “Vast Expanses – a History of the Oceans.”Listen as this renowned historian dives in and discusses how knowing the undersea realm is

Comedy night returns to Yellow Kittens with headliner Anthony Devito on Tuesday, July 5. Originally from New Jersey, Anthony DeVito is a New York City based comedian. He’s appeared on CBS “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Comedy Central’s “Adam Devine’s House Party,” and was one of the “New Faces” at the 2012 Montreal Just for

This past April, Coast opened on 448 Ocean Avenue. Owned by Cariona Davis, Coast is a new eco-friendly, woman-owned and locally supportive shop.Coast offers locally fresh-cut flowers, mostly from Davis’s backyard on Spring Street, along with flowers from Ayla Shade, a local florist and owner of Harvest Moon Florals, that are also Spring Street grown.

Eighteen works in a variety of media by Bernard Lamotte will be on exhibit at the Jessie Edwards Studio on the second floor of the Post Office building, from June 24 to July 6. A virtual reception will be released on June 25.Paris-born, Lamotte (1903-1983) attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Sorbonne.These selected

The Town Council did some end-of year housekeeping at its meeting on June 15. As the fiscal year comes to a close on June 30, Town Finance Director Amy Land led them though what she termed “annual exercises.”The first was to reassign expenditures that were “unplanned or greater than anticipated.” All of the expenditures are

The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in cooperation with the Town of New Shoreham, has implemented a temporary closure of the beach beyond the North Light trail to off-road vehicles due to the impending hatch of piping plover chicks. Those with a Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) permit for beach driving are asked to

Now in its second decade, the opioid epidemic has claimed more than 800,000 lives in the United States. This is more deaths than in all U.S. wars and armed conflicts combined “from the Revolutionary War to the present,” according to the article “The Opioid Crisis – Not Just Opioids Anymore,” by Doctors Jeffrey Brent Weiss