At the request of the Town Council, two staff members of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management visited the island on Monday, March 27 and sat down with the council to discuss deer management.First Warden Keith Stover told Dylan Ferrara and David Kalb of DEM that although there had been a Deer Task Force […]
The fantastic fourth graders at Block Island School have been busy this school year. In addition to their rigorous curriculum, they have incorporated lots of hands-on learning, movement breaks, and outdoor adventures.The students earned many opportunities for learning outside the classroom by demonstrating good choice-making and behavior. While studying erosion in science, students walked to
The fiscal year 2024 budget for the Town of New Shoreham was unveiled last week on March 15 and presented to the Town Council by Town Manager Maryanne Crawford and Finance Director Amy Land.Crawford opened by saying that the 2024 budget shows a continuation of projects that began during this fiscal year, 2023, which ends
The Old Harbor Task Force’s annual memo to the Town Council led to some meaty conversations at the council’s meeting on December 21, in turn leading to what might be called a road map for 2023.The task force’s mission is to bring improvements to the downtown area. One may think of them as limited to
School Sports at Home Boys Varsity Basketball vs. Middlebridge, Saturday, Jan. 7 at 12:30 p.m. (School gym)Note: The Girls Varsity home game scheduled for Jan. 14 has been postponed. Recreation Department Weekly Schedule Tuesdays:• 8-10 p.m., Pickleball (School Gym)Fridays:• 6:30 – 8 p.m., Friday Night Games, grades 4-6 (School gym)• 8 – 10 p.m., Open
As 2022 comes to a close, some of Block Island’s biggest news stories will also go the way of the calendar and some will stick around well into the new year, and perhaps, beyond.This year, islanders closed the books on the Champlin’s Marina expansion as after almost 20 years the Rhode Island Supreme Court made
As if to prove a point, Mother Nature unleashed a whopper of a storm just a few days after the New Shoreham Sea Level Rise Committee’s December meeting. The storm that started late Thursday night did most of its damage locally during the high tide Friday morning, December 23, as waves washed over low-lying areas
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Mainland grid power worries had the commissioners of the Block Island Utility District mulling the need for disaster planning at their latest meeting on December 20. After attending a meeting on the mainland, Block Island Power Company President Jeffery Wright said that ISO New England, the operator of the regional power grid was warning of
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Tai chi is a simple, gentle, holistic exercise system performed slowly, but its benefits can have major positive health benefits for those who do it, according to Block Island physical therapist and Tai chi instructor, Tom Hobin. Hobin conducts a class weekly on Wednesdays from 4 to 4:50 p.m. at the Block Island Community Center
In 1967, a travel writer visited Block Island. The writer worked for The Providence Journal, and like all reporters in the United States at the time, saw his nation divided on many social and cultural fronts. Newspaper reporters had their hands full in the summer of 1967 as civil unrest exploded across the nation’s major
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