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The New Shoreham Town Council had a discussion on infrastructure at its work session meeting on June 2. Town Manager Maryanne Crawford discussed the impacts she anticipates on the island’s infrastructure and discussed her objective to ensure that...

It was all work and little play for United States Senator Jack Reed and accompanying staff as they got a whirlwind tour of Block Island facilities as well as an outline of the town’s future needs Wednesday. Reed was guided by First Warden Andre...

Buried in the middle of two dozen agenda items before the Town Council on the night of May 19, was an interesting addition: a series of questions raised by Councilor Martha Ball regarding the transparency and forthrightness of the decision by the...

Fri, 05/07/2021 - 8:45am Category:  Just over 200 voters attended Financial Town Meeting in the gymnasium of the Block Island School. Photos by Pat Tengwall. “Now the hard part starts. You’ve got 30 days.” That was the advice of Assistant Town Moderator Doug Michel after the vote was counted on whether the town should contribute $4.5 million to the $10.5 million acquisition of a portion of the Overlook property on the Great Salt Pond, between Champlin’s Marina and the Salt Po...

Fri, 04/30/2021 - 9:45am Category:  The Overlook property sits between Champlin’s Marina and the Salt Pond Settlement. Last week the Block Island community was surprised at the announcement that a $4.5 million expenditure was being added to the warrant for the annual Financial Town Meeting at the last minute. The announcement came at the April 21 Council meeting where, after emerging from a closed session with the Block Island Land Trust, the town would pursue the purchase of a por...

Steven Hester Category:  Quite a few items were discussed at the Town Council meeting on April 21, 2021. This was to be expected, as they had released an 18-point agenda earlier in the week. Besides the discussion and votes pertaining to the proposed acquisition of a portion of the Overlook property, a few other tweaks were made to the Warrant for the Financial Town Meeting. The council voted to include the request for $1.3 million for a replacement fire truck. Town Manager Maryanne Crawford a...

Category:  To the Editor: After months of work by the Town Council, the Land Trust, the Block Island Conservancy, and The Nature Conservancy, the Town Council voted at its meeting last night to put forward to the Financial Town Meeting a proposal to purchase the open space portion of what is commonly referred to as the Overlook property, located between Champlin’s Marina and the Salt Pond Settlement. Getting to this point was not easy – negotiations were complicated and necessarily confide...

$4.5 million of $10.5 million price added to FTM warrant Steven Hester and Pat Tengwall Fri, 04/23/2021 - 9:45am Category:  The Town Council voted on April 21 to join three other groups in purchasing the Overlook property on the shore of the Great Salt Pond next to Champlin’s Marina and Resort. The vote was taken in a closed session with the Block Island Land Trust and announced in open session during the regular Council meeting. The vote was 3-1 in favor, with Councilor Martha Bal...

Additional funding allocated between Medical Center and Fire and Rescue Thu, 04/01/2021 - 5:30pm Category:  Between Town Council work sessions on the Fiscal Year 2022 budget, the Finance Department found some savings, which the Council took advantage of by increasing funding for two organizations in the Community Support category: Block Island Health Services, which operates the Medical Center, and the BI Volunteer Fire Department. At the Monday, March 29 meeting, Town Manager Maryan...

Thu, 02/25/2021 - 5:45pm Category:  The Town Council appointed R.I. State Police Captain Matthew Moynihan as the interim chief of the New Shoreham Police Department at its Feb. 17 virtual meeting. Moynihan will start on March 1, succeeding Chief Vincent Carlone, who announced his retirement in December 2020. “In recent weeks I have been working with Colonel James Manni of the R.I. State Police in the transition to a new police chief,” Town Manager Maryanne Crawford told the counc...