Block Island kicked off the New Year by ending its reliance on fossil fuels and flipping the switch to electric power 100 percent generated by renewable sources.
Just over four years ago, in March 2019, the Block Island Utility District took over the operation of the Block Island Power Company. Formerly a private, investor-owned, for-profit utility, it
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.
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