The Town Council has granted the easement to National Grid to resume its cable work at Fred Benson Town Beach. But, it wasn’t quite a slam dunk for the big utility.National Grid had to suspend its work on the cable reburial project last spring after debris clogged the conduit that was to carry the new […]
The Block Island Utility District (doing business as the Block Island Power Company) will have a couple of new faces on its Board of Commissioners. There are five seats on the board, with staggered terms, and three of them came up for election thisyear: Chair Barbara MacMullan, Treasurer Bill Penn, and Secretary Everett Shorey. Mary
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“Bound by Blue: A Life on Block Island” with Edith Littlefield Blane will be the opening night documentary film screened at the Southeast New England Film Festival. The movie, directed by Katherine Reaves and produced by Susan Bush and Laura Parsons, documents Blane relating stories of growing up and living on Block Island – reflecting
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Comedy night returns to Yellow Kittens with the hilarious Usama Siddiquee on Sunday, Oct. 10. Siddiquee is a Bengali-American stand-up comedian-actor based in New York City. He was one of the New Faces at Just for Laughs in 2018 and made his stand-up television debut on BET’s “50 Central,” and recently competed on “America’s Got
Block Island residents Perry Phillips and Benjamin Foster entered into a settlement agreement on Monday to pay $10,000 fortheir antics at sea last summer, a prank that went horribly wrong and resulted in a cost of $103,948 to the U.S. Coast Guard.According to the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in Providence, Rhode Island, on the
The Block Island Yacht Club is pleased to offer applications for the 2022 BIYC Maritime Scholarship Award starting November30th. 2021 Students who have already graduated from the Block Island School, intend to pursue maritime careers, and are currently enrolled in a college undergraduate maritime program at an accredited institution may receive up to $1000 annually
The Block Island Residents Association is exploring the possibility of the town opening up a public park at the Coast Guard Station. The town has owned the facility since the 1990s, with the Coast Guard discontinuing year round operations in the late 1980s. The Coast Guard still has a presence on the island during the
After taking a brief pause for the busy summer months, the Island Free Library is ready to get back to its large renovation project. The board of trustees received a report via telephone from Lucas Silva, the contractor supervising the work.Silva told the board he was ready to finish up the interior trim and ceilings,
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This is the first in a series whereby readers submit questions on a particular topic for Dr. Warcup to address. The first topic is Covid. The next topic will be aging in place.Question: Are people with breakthrough cases less likely to spread the virus than unvaccinated people? Answer: Thank you for the question. People that
Block Island Medical Center Director Dr. Tom Warcup had some good news for the New Shoreham Town Council on Monday night: statewide, the Covid numbers were trending downward. In Rhode Island, new cases were down to 182 per 100,000,and the seven-day positivity rate was down to two percent. Breakthrough cases had ticked up slightly, to