Roberta Closter News Today

The Class of 2026 at the Block Island School has just completed their Further Afield program with The Nature Conservancy. Most students went to Saint Croix, while a few stayed

The following was sent to The Block Island Times by B.I. School science teacher Roberta Closter:

Monday, March 20 was the first day of spring, and already we are seeing and hearing all the regular benchmarks. Spring peepers are already chorusing on the warmer, quieter nights;

Dear Community, It does take a village and in this instance two very special community members. My daughter, Celeste, recently completed her senior project. Drawing from her experience at London College of Fashion and Rhode Island School of Design,...

Block Island experiencing a Covid breakout The past couple of weeks have seen a dramatic rise in positive Covid cases. The R.I. Department of Health had the island’s cumulative case count since the start of the pandemic up by four cases in the week...

Where would Block Island be without the Mary D. Fund? The Mary D. Fund quietly helps those in need in many different ways and is truly the backbone of families trying to survive on Block Island. This winter we noticed that children needed warm...

On Tuesday, March 15, 25 volunteers surveyed nearly 100 percent of the island’s perimeter in an effort to get a count of seals in the area at this “peak” season for wintering seals. This effort was in coordination with Save The Bay’s annual bay-wide...

After 34 years at the Block Island School, Kristine Monje plans to retire after this spring. Monje grew up in Cranston, Rhode Island and graduated from Cranston East High School. After graduating, she attended the University of Rhode Island with a...

Help celebrate Mary Donnelly’s 94 th birthday with dinner-to-go on Thursday, Dec. 16. Dinner includes your choice of pasta with meatballs made with Sprague Farm beef, Caesar salad, garlic bread and a birthday cupcake made by Kate Musso at Oddfellows...

Lars Trodson Category:  The halt to virtually all Recreation Department programs for the past nine months has not only impacted the kids who participate in those programs, but also department heads and the revenue that helps keeps its slate of activities afloat. With continued restrictions on activities, Recreation Department Director Dave Sniffen and Assistant Director Cindy Lemon have been reassigned to other departments to help with town projects outside the department. Sniffen, for instanc...