Thu, 01/14/2021 - 5:45pm
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The Town of New Shoreham Broadband Committee had hoped to have a website up and running by mid-January where residents could go to review product offerings and sign up early for services. At the committee’s meeting on Thursday, Jan. 7 it was announced that the website was still being built. New Shoreham IT Coordinator Michelle Spero said: “It looks like an end of January launch.”
While the numbers aren’t set in stone, information provided in July 2020 in advance of the Financial Town Meeting when voters approved the $8 million project presented pricing on various tiers of service being considered. The numbers were presented as both year-round, and for four-month seasonal service.
Who knows at the time what memories will stay with them all their lives?
Arriving on the island one morning just after the new year in 1973 with Peder Schaefer, a friend and co-worker from summers at the Narragansett Inn, I literally took off for an island tour in a jeep Eleanor Mott had graciously made available to us.
The day was bright sun, charged by a blistering wind that blew us from side to side down the deserted roads, the light glinting off the snow and ice which enveloped the frozen landscape in every direction. After we descended Bush Lot Hill and headed toward Sandy Point, the sight of ice boats racing up and down Sachem Pond came into view.
Thu, 12/24/2020 - 6:00pm
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Block Island Medical Center physical therapist Tom Hobin recently donated one of his kidneys to family member Doug Courtemanche after discovering Courtemanche was in need of an organ donation. Photo courtesy of Hobin.
Tom Hobin, the physical therapist at the Block Island Medical Center, had been considering donating a kidney for quite some time to an individual in need, but had no idea that his kidney would be a match with a close family relative.
“I learned from my step-daughter Alexia Pettit that her father-in-law needed a transplant. The father-in-law [Doug Courtemanche] was on the list to get one. We found out over a year ago, when I started the process of looking into it,” said Hobin.