The weather didn’t spell doom and gloom for everyone this summer, as the Harbors Department bucked the downward trend experienced by many businesses and town departments, although the season did
The Block Island of Keith Lewis’ boyhood was a spare place, hardly bothered by anyone other than its 500 or so inhabitants. Times were hard in the 1960s Block Island has long thrived on its pastoral isolation, but skyrocketing home prices and changing tourism patterns are shattering a way of life even as a new technology delivers modern conveniences.
On Memorial Day 1962, a young writer and his wife took the wood-hulled ferry the Sprigg Carroll from Point Judith to Block Island. The couple were looking for a getaway
The Block Island Land Trust invited Block Island’s new Police Chief John Lynch to its latest meeting to talk about security at the Ocean View Foundation Pavilion and the beach
Block Island Health Services has embarked on a new Planning and Zoning journey with a changed design for additions to the medical center on Payne Road. The Planning Board approved the Medical Center’s initial design at a meeting in September, 2021.
Changes may be coming to how pilots land at the Block Island State Airport. The Rhode Island Airport Corporation has just closed its 30-day comment period on a “Final Draft Environmental Assessment” for the removal of obstructions on and around the.
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.
It took until about noon on Wednesday, November 9 to get the full and final results in this year’s election in New Shoreham. There were of course, plenty of write-in votes to tabulate and at Town Hall members of the Board of Canvassers were busy in.
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What may have been the longest-running saga in Block Island’s history, the challenge to Champlin’s Realty Associates’ attempt to expand its marina into the Great Salt Pond, has finally, after almost two decades, come to a final conclusion. The Rhode.