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Five towns — Exeter, Foster, Hopkinton, New Shoreham and Portsmouth — still have unpaid fence viewers who take calls about boundary disputes.

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

Hunting season for the year is over, having ended just before most Rhode Island schools take their February break, and the town has already set the dates for the fall

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On December 26, there was a small but hardy gathering of walkers and birders starting the day’s observations for the Community Bird Census (CBC). Following the first – mostly – white Christmas in years, the weather stayed cold and crisp: 20F plus-or...

In the spirit of Thanksgiving, members of the Block Island Volunteer Fire Department were treated to a, not firehouse franks and beans, but a gourmet feast of expertly prepared venison with all the fixings on Thursday, November 17. All the fixings...

It took until about noon on Wednesday, November 9 to get the full and final results in this year’s election in New Shoreham. There were of course, plenty of write-in votes to tabulate and at Town Hall members of the Board of Canvassers were busy in...

International law firm Allens has advised a consortium comprising Northleaf Capital Partners and InfraRed Capital Partners on an investment on track to create New Zealands largest independent tower

The Town Council on Monday couldn’t avoid frustrating an already frustrated public even more. The meeting was held the day after the 30-year “moped settlement agreement” expired on July 31. Renegotiating that agreement is underway, but the...

The deer of Block Island, and the hikers, received good news Monday night when the Town Council voted to keep weekends and holidays free from hunting. The Deer Task Force brought forward a proposal for the 2023-2024 hunting season to allow archery...