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“At first blush, I haven’t figured out which part of the web complicates the next (part),” Second Warden Sven Risom said, describing the requests of the Sewer Commission to the Town Council. He went on to describe the agenda item as a “rushed...

“I’m going to hold firm that we should not be paying for them,” Town Manager Maryanne Crawford told the Town Council at its April 13 meeting. First Warden André Boudreau had asked Crawford if she had an update on the situation with the R.I. State...

Last week, the Town Council finalized the 2023 budget for presentation at the Financial Town Meeting on May 2. Town Manager Maryanne Crawford summarized the changes, explaining that an additional $25,000 would be going to the Block Island Volunteer...

New Shoreham is looking into the possibility of creating a new tax structure, based on classifications of different land use types. The goal of creating this tax structure, per the accompanying documents on the town’s website, is to “Modernize New...

The April 4 meeting of the New Shoreham Town Council began, as meetings so often do, with public comment. Alicia Martin of the ad-hoc group Block Island Affordable and Attainable Housing spoke to the council about the ongoing shortage of quality...

As the Town Council sharpens up its pencils and works to crunch the numbers in the budget for fiscal year 2023, it is increasingly running up against a hard truth. “We are in a zero-sum situation,” Council Member Keith Stover told the group on April...

As the Town Council continues poring over the proposed budget, one new cost the town is potentially facing is a charge for state police coverage. Traditionally, the Rhode Island State Police have sent troopers to the island to augment the local...

The Town Council continued its budget process at a work session with department heads on March 28, hearing from the administration and finance departments, the police department, the fire and rescue and Emergency Management department (Dispatch),...

The town’s budget work sessions for the next fiscal year that starts on July 1, kicked off on Tuesday night, March 22. The hearings focused on town departments, and other entities that receive some funding from the town, that are related to...

Joe Murphy of National Grid appeared before the Town Council last week and told the group his company was planning to begin operations to splice the sea2shore cable on April 5. The two-way cable connects the island to the mainland and carries...