Kevin Cute of the R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council attended the Harbors Committee meeting on Thursday, Feb. 18 to provide an update on the Harbor Management Plan. The committee last spoke with Cute in December 2020. Since that time, Cute has been reviewing and cross-referencing the plan to a checklist from CRMC to make sure […]
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The following was submitted to The Block Island Times by the Block Island Conservancy: The yellow-rumped, or Myrtle, warbler is a migratory and wintertime songbird on Block Island. It is the only warbler that regularly spends its winter on Block Island, due to the fact that it is one of the few birds that can
During the Senior Advisory Committee’s meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 16, Senior Coordinator Gloria Redlich updated the committee on the current programs and services available for the senior population on the island. Similar to many other organizations and groups that have had to adjust their programs and schedules to follow Covid-19 health regulations and protocols, SAC
In honor of Black History Month, the Island Free Library is celebrating the work of Black writers. “Our main focus is two things – the daily post to our Facebook page that celebrates a Black poet, which Bethany [Petrik] is working on. She curates and researches the daily posts,” said Library Director Kristin Baumann. “Then
A vacation-depleted Hurricanes varsity boys basketball team traveled off-island again Saturday, Feb. 13, in yet again, bitter 8:00 a.m. frigid temps and matched up against the Rocky Hill Prep School Mariners in a barn-burner of a game that came down to the last few seconds. The Hurricanes led almost the entire game before foul troubles
Nick and Pam Gelsomini went before the Planning Board for a third time on Feb. 10 with their plans to demolish an existing house off Corn Neck Road (Plat 4, Lot 63) and replace it with a new home and add other structures. The board closed the public hearing on the application after pointed comments
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We are putting together the 2021 Block Island Tourism magazine, and are looking for high resolution (not cell phone) photos of Block Island in the summer — beaches, landscape, pets, sunsets, sunrise, boating, fishing, landmarks, lighthouses — show us what you’ve got! Think you have the perfect cover shot? It must be a high resolution
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On Thursday, Feb. 4, at the beginning of the Broadband Committee’s virtual meeting, New Shoreham Finance Director Amy Land announced that the new website was ready to be launched the next day. It’s a step that many have been waiting for – a first look at what’s ahead for Block Island. Land invited the members
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The Town Council is looking at two proposals submitted for a possible island transit service this summer season: one from R.I. Public Transit Authority, and one formed by the Commission for Motor Vehicles for Hire and island taxi operators. On Wednesday, Feb. 3, RIPTA presented its proposal to the Town Council for a public transit
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R.I. Attorney General Peter Neronha’s Motion to Intervene in the Champlin’s case, now before the R.I. Supreme Court, is 38 pages long, but full of detail as to the history of the case in all its particularities, and the procedures the CRMC is expected to adhere to in evaluating a marina expansion. One of the