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Early in the morning on June 28, just days before Fourth of July festivities were to begin, two lightning strikes hit Block Island in the vicinity of the intersection of Ocean and Connecticut Avenues. There was no apparent damage there, but the effects of the strike were felt a quarter of a mile away at […]

Block Island was spared the recent torrential rains and flooding experienced in much of the New England and New York area during the past week, although there were some passing showers here and there.But that doesn’t mean islanders aren’t worried about the effect of high waters, whether they come from hurricanes, storm surge, or just

The agenda for the July 3 Town Council meeting indicated that three separate items were to be discussed in closed session: an errant stone wall, and two items related to collective bargaining.The inclusion of the stone wall, that, it is alleged, was built on town property was an error, according to First Warden Keith Stover,

Last fall, the Planning Board recommended several changes to the Zoning Ordinances governing Section 513 housing in order to make it more feasible for homeowners to provide year-round housing, in the form of a second dwelling unit, for Block Island residents.Some of the changes included increasing the number of allowable bedrooms to three and increasing

This will be the fourth year that the Committee for the Great Salt Pond sponsors and runs this popular and free event. The contest was created during the early stages of the pandemic. Its purpose was to give the public an outdoor activity that would be “fun” but “safe.” We wanted to get people outdoors

Author Lenore Skomal is celebrating the 20th anniversary of her book “The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter,” a popular biography of Newport’s Lightkeeper, Ida Lewis. Skomal says Lewis was “a true heroine in her time and someone that should be brought back to the national conscience.”Born in 1842, Ida Lewis became the keeper of the Lime Rock

You are invited to Island Bound Bookstore on Thursday, July 20 at 5 p.m. to meet author Meg Mitchell Moore, whose most recent book, “ S u m m e r Stage,” is set on Block I s l a n d . Moore’s first book set on Block Island, “The Islanders,” published in 2019,

The Block Island Maritime Institute will host photojournalist and science writer Erica Cirino for its Tuesday Night Talk on July 18 at 7 p.m.Cirino is a science writer, author, and artist exploring the intersection of the human and nonhuman worlds, and recently began managing communications for Plastic Pollution Coalition. Her widely published photojournalistic works depict

On Memorial Day 1962, a young writer and his wife took the wood-hulled ferry the Sprigg Carroll from Point Judith to Block Island. The couple were looking for a getaway from their lower east side Manhattan tenement where they were raising two young girls. The wife’s family had a place on Nantucket, but it was

The Double Enders Committee’s theme for the 2023 Fourth of July parade is “Your Favorite American Super Hero.” Although some get very creative with themes, others ignore them completely and just do their own thing. It’s all good. Past years’ themes have included favorite movies, television shows, Broadway musicals, songs…the list goes on and on.Each