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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 talk of the locals on Block Island, like any American community, was...

It didn’t take long for the news to spread on Block Island that a man jumped off of the ferry on Tuesday, Jan. 10 as the boat was heading from the island to Point Judith. “I just got a text,” was the utterance of one person whose spouse was on the...

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...

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...

After tabling the matter a few weeks ago, the Town Council renewed mobile food establishment permits, approved their locations and set a cap on the number of licenses on Monday, December 5. The reason for the delay was to allow Bethany Campbell...

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...

After almost six months with no executive director at the Block Island Chamber of Commerce, that position has finally been filled. Chris Crawford, who moved to the island with his spouse, Maryanne Crawford, in July of 2020 when she became town...

John H. Wronowski was the son of Polish immigrants whose father worked in the coal mines of Pennsylvania. As a young man, he worked as a marine mechanic and electrician, all of which served him well when he became a partner in Interstate Navigation...

Ballard’s Beach Resort found itself in hot water again earlier this year when the state’s coastal regulator cited it for constructing “unauthorized” structures on the beach.

The slow boat may just get slower if the federal Commerce Department has its way. A regulation has been proposed to limit the speed of vessels to 10 miles per hour from November to the end of May in order to protect right whales from the possibility...