There have been 13 applicants for the position of police chief for the Town of New Shoreham, Town Manager Maryanne Crawford announced at the Town Council’s meeting on November 6.
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
“As an island community, we can do great things,” said First Warden Keith Stover at the onset of the ceremony to celebrate “the lighting” of the new fiber optic broadband
Late Thursday afternoon, January 19, the New Shoreham Town Council, by a unanimous vote, appointed John Lynch as the new police chief of Block Island pending his Rhode Island certification as a police officer. The New Shoreham town charter requires.