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The Town Council received an update from lobbyist Rick McAuliffe of the Mayforth Group on the “Mexican standoff” between the town and the Rhode IslandState Police on Friday, April 29. The State Police are currently requesting $45,000 for the summer season, to provide two officers on weekends. Four of the five council members don’t think […]

Lobbyist Rick McAuliffe paid a visit to the Town Council last Friday to give an update on how things are going for the town’s legislative agenda at the Rhode Island State Legislature. The town has sent three resolutions to the General Assembly: one resolution calls for the income limits for affordable housing eligibility to be

The Block Island Gardeners have celebrated Arbor Day with the younger students at the Block Island School for decades. This year it was special for a couple of reasons – Arbor Day 2022 was the 150th anniversary of the holiday, and, due to Covid, the local activities were skipped for the past two years. Each

The New Shoreham Sewer Department has announced a sewer shut-off for Monday, May 9, Tuesday, May 10, and possibly Wednesday May 11 for the area in and around Bridgegate Square. This is required while workers from National Water Main Cleaning Company of Boston re-line the leaking sewer pipes in the area.During the fall, camera work

Members of the New Shoreham Town Council, along with Housing Board Chair Cindy Pappas, Town Manager Maryanne Crawford and advocate Alicia Miro, attended a hearing before the Rhode Island House Committee on Municipal Government and Housing on April 12, to plead the case for House Bill 7723. The bill, introduced by Representative Blake Filippi, seeks

The Planning Board will be holding two special sessions in May to discuss the results of the Large House Survey it conducted earlier this winter from Jan. 25 to Feb. 15. There were 233 responses to the online survey, which was conducted to elicit feedback, or “policy preferences of the community” as they relate to

By all accounts, Block Island’s first Earth and Arbor Day Fair held last Thursday, April 21, was a resounding success.When The Block Island Times spoke with organizer Mimi Leveille a couple weeks before the fair, she was still gathering participants, and unsure of just who would be doing what. It turns out she needn’t have

“At first blush, I haven’t figured out which part of the web complicates the next (part),” Second Warden Sven Risom said, describing the requests of the Sewer Commission to the Town Council. He went on to describe the agenda item as a “rushed jambalaya,” with “too much sauce.”“That’s a fair assessment,” Finance Director Amy Land

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The fastest growing sport in the country is called pickleball.Ok, really. Can you take anyone seriously when they pronounce they are “headed out to play pickleball?”Well, it turns out that a recent visit to the island’s school gym on a raw Sunday afternoon demonstrated with one glance that the name is perfect.For pickleball was born