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Officer Doug Borden had a crazy idea, and he has many, always delivered with a mischievous smile.Whether it’s greeting the ferry passengers as they disembark with song, dog biscuits for furry friends, or dancing ‘a welcome’ to the island.This idea was different and was spawned from his years with the East Providence Police force where […]

In the recently digitized Elizabeth Ann Evans collection is a small newspaper clipping. It reads in part, “The recent misfortune of the Nelseco II, which broke her crank shaft when entering Newport harbor on Sunday, resulted in the most modern transportation of mail, delivery by air. It was already a matter of conjecture when this

Ballard’s Inn Realty LLC has applied to the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council for permission to have temporary “mobile” structures on the beach at the facility during the summer season and is requesting that a beach perimeter be established for their location. The CRMC cited the beachside venue in September for several violations in

“This has been kind of cool,” said George Davis, vice-chair of the Shellfish Commission at its meeting on Tuesday. Davis was speaking of the grand experiment he and others on the Shellfish Commission conducted over the course of the past year.The goal was to see if soft-shell clams could be successfully grown from seed and

“I love drought,” was the utterance of more than one department head at the Town Council’s meeting on Dec. 7 when the annual review of the summer on Block Island was the main topic. Overall the feeling was that it was a successful summer on the island. LibraryLibrary Director Kristin Baumann was the first department

The Town Council sat down for a round-table discussion with department heads at a meeting on Wednesday that included a few lessons on what to do, and what not to do, as members of a governing body.“For folks’ background, when I was elected,” said new First Warden Keith Stover, “the preparation was not terribly robust.

The Block Island Power Company hopes its new rates will be going into effect on January 1. They are the result of the required annual reconciliation that converts predictions into reality. Predictions because the rates are set based onhow much energy you think you are going to sell in advance of a coming year, and

Earlier this fall we ran an article on the life of artist and soldier John Hapgood (1905-1995), whose remains are buried in the Island Cemetery. Hapgood was a successful graphic artist based in Manhattan and who specialized in advertising. During World War II, Hapgood used his artistic skills in the U.S. Army’s 603rd Camouflage Engineers

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Since its inception, the Sea Level Rise Committee has been educating itself on the challenges to the island that will inevitably come as the oceans rise. While at first the group made its own assessments of vulnerable areas on theisland, they quickly determined that educating themselves on various issues was paramount. To that end, they