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Nobel Prize winner and professor of Geosciences and International Affairs Dr. Michael Oppenheimer attended the Sea Level Rise Committee’s meeting on Tuesday as a special guest advisor. As a summer resident, Oppenheimer spends most of his summers on...

“Let’s hear it. Let’s talk it out,” said Second Warden Sven Risom at the beginning of a special meeting on Monday, July 25 with liquor license holders on the current problems facing Block Island. The meeting was called after Interim Police Chief...

Thomas “TJ” Martucci has big plans for Finn’s Restaurant. He just doesn’t know what they are yet. Martucci “is an experienced restauranteer,” according to his attorney, Sanford Resnick, who attended the Town Council’s meeting on July 5 remotely as...

The New Shoreham Town Council had a lengthy agenda for its meeting on Monday, July 11 with most of the items continued from the previous meeting on July 5. When they got to item three, an update from Interim Police Chief Peter Chabot regarding the...

Summer is upon us, and as always, with July comes a host of problems, some new, and some that return every year. This year’s Fourth of July weekend was as busy as ever, but despite that, interim Police Chief Peter Chabot told the Town Council on...

The filing period to declare candidacy for town elections has closed and now the candidates must complete the next step – getting enough signatures of registered voters to participate in the primaries in September and the elections in November. The...

The Town Council did some end-of year housekeeping at its meeting on June 15. As the fiscal year comes to a close on June 30, Town Finance Director Amy Land led them though what she termed “annual exercises.” The first was to reassign expenditures...

A few weeks ago when the subject of the “Overlook Property” came up in a Town Council meeting, Councilor Martha Ball remarked that the newly acquired property should be called something else because the town, and the Block Island Land Trust had not...

The Town Council held a workshop on Wednesday, May 4 on the subject of housing. The need for more affordable and attainable housing has been an issue for decades, and while the town and the not-for-profit Block Island Economic Development Foundation...

By all accounts, Block Island’s first Earth and Arbor Day Fair held last Thursday, April 21, was a resounding success. When The Block Island Times spoke with organizer Mimi Leveille a couple weeks before the fair, she was still gathering...