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There’s excitement in the air as Block Island gets ready to celebrate the Fourth of July this year. Presented by the Double Ender Committee and supported by donations large and small, the island events were the brainchild of Edie Blane, years ago when she said to the Town Council: “We should do something fun” for […]

One of the biggest frustrations about broadband coming to Block Island is there is never really a definitive answer to when. With each update of its progress, there seems to be another few months added on until the time when customers can finally sign up for and receive services.Although the New Shoreham Broadband Committee had

Several projects passed muster at the Historic District’s meeting on June 27 – or at least partially. It can be a long process getting a design and a plan just right, and that’s just the beginning. Many of the projects that come before the commission need to then go on to other boards, including Planning

Greetings, and a warm welcome to all those visiting Block Island, officially known as the Town of New Shoreham. We hope you’ll treasure your visit to what The Nature Conservancy, in 1991, named “one of the 12 last great places in the Western Hemisphere.”In order to absorb the island’s true character, we invite you to

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

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