The Shad Bloom 10K Road Race was held on Saturday, May 12. According to Recreation Department Director Dave Sniffen, a total of 208 runners signed up for the race, and 167 finished. He described the conditions “as a little wet, but a lot of the runners liked the fact that it wasn’t blazing hot.” Here are […]
The Block Island Hurricanes Varsity Softball Team, 9 and 1 overall, has been playing well and is a force to be reckoned with in Division III play. Over the last few weeks, the team has picked up five more wins, but came up short when battling the Exeter West Greenwich Scarlet Knights. Flawless defense and
The Block Island School’s Junior Varsity Baseball Team played with grit and determination, but in the end were outmaneuvered by a crafty Wheeler School team, losing a 5-4 nail-biter on Friday, May 11 in Seekonk. The struggling JV Hurricanes offense committed to turning a corner prior to the game, and did just that, scoring two
Music as a way of expressing emotion; art therapy as an alternative to medication; the importance of exercise; the filmmaking process and its relationship to being media-literate; preserving natural history through taxidermy; the debate between using a smartphone or digital camera to capture images; and the issues associated with internet privacy. These were the subjects
A show of hands at the annual Financial Town Meeting granted the town the authorization to spend up to $1.5 million to fund the construction of two dwellings for town employees, a move that supporters hope will be the first step towards solving the island’s rental housing shortage. The $1.5 million bond passed by a
Block Island’s Senior Advisory Committee may have discovered a valuable resource in its efforts to bolster services and programs to meet the needs of the island’s seniors who wish to age in place. Gloria Redlich, SAC’s Senior Coordinator, told The Block Island Times that the resource is Bill Flynn, the Executive Director of the Providence-based nonprofit
Every house has a biography. It has a birth date; most have an end date. Each home has a personality, and many stories to tell. It’s difficult to find out too much about a house just by looking at it, but one project initiated by Scenic Block Island is designed to speak a little bit
The Conservation Commission weighed in on several projects at its meeting on Tuesday, and even proposed one of its own — installing a water-bottle filling station somewhere in the downtown area. Commissioner Don Littlefield suggested putting the filling station near the Chamber of Commerce’s Welcome Center in Old Harbor. Although water is available at the
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On the quiet Sunday afternoon of April 22, a dozen or so island residents gathered at the Island Free Library for what they initially thought was a talk by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. They quickly learned there had been a miscommunication and the Senator would not be present, which prompted a voice from the audience to
The New Shoreham Town Council is pondering how town-owned parks and playgrounds should be regulated, and what kind of policy, or policies, should be implemented for events that are hosted by the public on those properties. Margie Comings, Chair of the Old Harbor Task Force, met with the Town Council at a recent meeting to