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“A good thing about a rainy day is one has time to read things like this,” said Town Council member Keith Stover. He was speaking about a 58-page contract with Crocker Communications, the Internet Service Provider for Block Island’s municipal...

The Block Island Residents Association and The Block Island Times will be hosting another “Candidates Forum” on Sunday, October 30 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. (Location still to be determined.) This will be an important opportunity for...

The New Shoreham Town Council reviewed but took no action on a lease agreement with former town employee Marc Tillson for the manager’s apartment at the Coast Guard Station. Tillson, who retired a couple of years ago as building official, as well as...

There were no great reveals on Friday during a presentation by Megan Epler Wood on the recent study “Block Island and the Invisible Burden of Tourism.” If anyone was expecting to be told something they didn’t already know, they might have been...

At one point an exasperated Martha Ball said, “This is just a feel-good venting thing,” of the Town Council’s work session on September 7. The subject was parking and congestion, particularly in the downtown area and despite Councilor Ball’s...

During an August 30 presentation hosted by and at the Block Island Maritime Institute, Save The Bay Executive Director Jonathan Stone unveiled the latest details regarding Save The Bay’s Hamilton Family Aquarium in Newport to a Block Island audience...

Rhode Island’s U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse spent the better part of the day on Block Island on Tuesday, August 23. With a full itinerary, he started out at Town Hall meeting with the Town Council, Town Manager Maryanne Crawford and Finance...

“The goal of this meeting is to listen,” said Second Warden Sven Risom at the beginning of a special meeting of the Town Council on August 17 on the subject of mopeds. The meeting came at the request of members of the public that have been asking...

Residents, visitors, and even summer workers turned out in great numbers at Town Hall on Thursday, August 11 for a special Town Council meeting on “the incidents that occurred on August 8, 2022 that required a police response.” Of course, that was...

Between social media and eye-witness accounts, there was plenty of evidence of an out-of-control situation at Ballard’s Beach Resort and on the Block Island Ferry on Monday during and after Ballard’s Reggae Festival that this year was held on...