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A fire has all but destroyed the historic Harborside Inn in the downtown area of Block Island. The fire appears to have started a little after 11 p.m. Friday night.

A year to the day after unruly passengers on the Block Island Ferry caused the boat to be boarded by the U.S. Coast Guard and police officers from several agencies

A year after a problematic reggae music festival, a group of passengers who were on the Block Island Ferry that night when a brawl broke out have filed a federal lawsuit alleging emotional and psychological harm after being stuck on the ferry for nearly an hour.

The passengers "had excessive blood spilled all over their person" from being caught in the middle of fights, the lawsuit states.

The Town Council switched its role to Board of License Commissioners on June 21 to consider a liquor license request from Persephone’s, the coffee shop and café on Dodge Street.

Charlie Donadio and his fast ferry service in Quonset for now have won the battle over whose fast ferry can serve Block Island.

The Rhode Island Superior Court, after many years of legal wrangling, has handed down a decision in the matter of Rhode Island Fast Ferry on April 11.

Historic District approves a door, a fence, and signs

Members of the Block Island Tourism Council went through their list of applicants for community funding support and whittled down the total requested amount of $237,351 to almost $80,000 on

A northeaster had just dumped two inches of snow. At Block Island’s Old Harbor, fishermen labored shoveling white powder out of their vessels. As this was January 1942 however, the