To perennially exist between seasons is to live year-round on Block Island. As a local, growing up on-island has given me a respect for the impermanence of familiar spaces; this liminality is what I choose to focus on in my photographs. My showing at The Spring Street Gallery opens on Tuesday, July 17, with an […]
The Mill Pond Bridge has been vandalized by a graffiti artist, or artists. Town officials discovered the blemish to the newly renovated structure this week. The graffiti covers a portion of the culvert that contains new bricks that were merged with the original 100-year old bricks. The New Shoreham Highways Department said the paint cannot
The newly rebuilt Mill Pond Bridge was tagged with graffiti last week, resulting in swift condemnation by many and quick action by the Highways Department to clean it up. Town officials discovered the graffiti on the newly renovated structure on Thursday, July 12. The graffiti covered a portion of the culvert that contains new bricks
The following is the first in the Block Island Health Services Community Health Outreach Series. The pace and pressures of daily life can place excessive demands on our time, attention, and even our health. As our responsibilities multiply it becomes increasingly difficult to stay connected to the present moment and to be truly in tune
Kinga Kaminska is sitting, relaxed, in her new hair salon on Dodge Street. The space once belonged to Mark Koch’s Beachcomber salon, but Kaminska has transformed the space to reflect her own casual elegance. There are art books on a narrow table sitting in front of a colorful divan. There is art made by local
Eleven picnic tables were vandalized at Ball O’Brien Park on Saturday, June 30, New Shoreham Recreation Director Dave Sniffen told The Block Island Times. Sniffen said the damaged tables created a “dangerous” situation for children playing in the park. “It took place sometime Saturday night, when 11 tables were damaged,” said Sniffen. “I was notified about it
It was almost exactly a year ago in the final hours of the 2017 session of the Rhode Island General Assembly that legislation enabling the formation of the Block Island Utility District was passed into law. The intent of the legislation was to form a not-for-profit utility, controlled by ratepayers, that would acquire the Block Island
“This is Block Island’s plan. It isn’t anybody else’s. It’s what’s unique to us.” Town Manager Ed Roberge made those remarks regarding the Town of New Shoreham’s Harbor Management Plan at a June 28 meeting, which involved his first forum on the subject with the Harbors Committee. Roberge, who is updating the plan and holding
The whole idea started out as an informal way to explore other islands. “We would all go to Shelter Island and meet there. It was more of a student exchange program,” said Block Island School teacher Shannon Cotter-Marsella, who was there at the beginning. Then, over time, it morphed into what it is today: the
There were several power outages on the island on Sunday, July 1, in the early evening. We asked Block Island Power Co. President Jeffery Wright about where the outages were and their causes. Q. There was a power outage on Sunday night. Can you tell us the area or areas that were impacted? A: The