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After what Block Island Water Company Superintendent John Breunig described as “clerical and quorum issues,” the Joint Water and Sewer Commissions finally mustered a minimum quorum to hold a public hearing and pass water usage restrictions for the...

Block Island Recycling Management has requested and received permission to raise trash disposal and commercial recycling rates from the New Shoreham Town Council. But that permission did not come without an involved discussion. BIRM sent a letter to...

The Town Council attacked a laundry list of topics at its last meeting of 2022, quickly moving through some topics and giving a thorough airing to others. On the quick list: The council approved commercial shellfishing licenses for 2023 based on the...

The Old Harbor Task Force’s annual memo to the Town Council led to some meaty conversations at the council’s meeting on December 21, in turn leading to what might be called a road map for 2023. The task force’s mission is to bring improvements to...

The Town Council sat down for a round-table discussion with department heads at a meeting on Wednesday that included a few lessons on what to do, and what not to do, as members of a governing body. “For folks’ background, when I was elected,” said...

“I love drought,” was the utterance of more than one department head at the Town Council’s meeting on Dec. 7 when the annual review of the summer on Block Island was the main topic. Overall the feeling was that it was a successful summer on the...

Since its inception, the Sea Level Rise Committee has been educating itself on the challenges to the island that will inevitably come as the oceans rise. While at first the group made its own assessments of vulnerable areas on the island, they...

Outgoing First Warden André Boudreau’s last official act was to open Monday’s Town Council meeting and then to oversee the approval of several sets of minutes from meetings both open and closed. Before being sworn in as the new first warden, Keith...

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...

The Town of New Shoreham and Ballard’s have reached a settlement agreement in the matter of the liquor and outdoor entertainment license suspensions imposed by the town on August 22, 2022 at a show cause hearing attended by over 100 members of the...