The Block Island Housing Board has reached a pivotal point in its quest to build a housing development at its Ball O’ Brien property on West Side Road across from
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Thu, 02/25/2021 - 5:15pm
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Volunteers coordinating paperwork at Saturday’s vaccine event for seniors 75 and older. Photos by R. Meyer.
If you receive a phone call from Bill McCombe asking your age without first dispensing with the usual niceties, just answer the question. McCombe is co-director of the Emergency Management Task Group, and has taken charge of organizing Covid-19 vaccination events for full-time residents of Block Island.
McCombe has been busy making lists of year-round residents’ ages so that as many as possible can get vaccinated against Covid-19 when doses become available from the Rhode Island Department of Health and are dispensed according to age group.
Thu, 12/10/2020 - 7:15pm
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Newly-elected member Shannon Cotter Marsella joined her first Housing Board meeting with a fresh update on the Cherry Hill Lane Homeowners Association. The board met via telecommunications on Tuesday, Dec. 8.
Cotter Marsella announced that island resident Pete Tweedy, who has been volunteering his time and efforts with establishing the Cherry Hill Lane Homeowners Association, has been completing “a list of things” for the Association, such as setting up a bank account and mailbox.
Housing Board Chair Cindy Pappas noted she had been in communication with Bain Transue of A. Transue Corp. for site work around the five Cherry Hill Lane homes, and “he is still on deck for ongoing issues.” Recently, there were basement leaks in some of the houses from the severe rain storms, and stormwater runoff was found in the area, too.