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After waiting the better part of a year, Block Island is finally getting its first public electric vehicle charger. When the level three charger was ordered, it was expected to arrive in the fall, but due to “supply chain issues,” delivery was...

Responses are rolling in to the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council regarding Ballard’s Inn Realty’s application for an outdoor stage and four tiki bars, which the applicant deems are “temporary mobile structures.” The application also...

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...

Construction has resumed at the Island Free Library on the multi-part window and shingle replacement project that started last year. The project is largely funded by a grant from the Champlin Foundation. Library Director Kristin Baumann told the...

It wasn’t quite a slam dunk for Keisha and Dwayne Brown at their first appearance before the Historic District Commission on Monday, Sept. 19, but by the end, they got what they needed. The Browns wish to build an accessory structure in the back of...

Perhaps not the swankiest thing to do on a hot summer Saturday afternoon but with the enticement of ice cream, swag, and a talk by Nobel Prize winner Michael Oppenheimer, the Block Island Utility District’s Annual meeting on Saturday was well...

After two hours of listening to the public make their feelings known on Thursday, Aug. 11 about “the incidents that occurred” on August 8, members of the Town Council and remaining audience members were getting a little punchy, but persisted in...

Joe Murphy of National Grid joined the Town Council via Zoom on February 16 and reported that the cable reburial project will begin, again, in April. National Grid’s sea2shore cable, which runs from Block Island to the mainland, was not buried to...

The Recreation Board met virtually for its January meeting, and Director Dave Sniffen talked about the various programs the board is offering for the winter season on Block Island. Mentioning that programs had paused when Covid “started to explode...

The Town Council continued the public hearing for the proposed changes to the town’s ordinances to alter the procedure for forming the capital budget. Town Manager Maryanne Crawford had suggested the changes, which are aimed at streamlining the...