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 Spring Street Gallery is pleased to host Block Island At Night, a unique series of photographs by Jim Berman, all taken entirely in the dark of moonless nights. Says Berman, “I’ve challenged myself to see the island in a light not already on display from the island’s many talented and inspiring photographers; I chose
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
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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
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
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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