Category: To the Editor: After months of work by the Town Council, the Land Trust, the Block Island Conservancy, and The Nature Conservancy, the Town Council voted at its meeting last night to put forward to the Financial Town Meeting a proposal to purchase the open space portion of what is commonly referred to as the Overlook property, located between Champlin’s Marina and the Salt Pond Settlement. Getting to this point was not easy – negotiations were complicated and necessarily confidential, and there was the obvious “sticker shock” associated with the purchase price and the requ...