The New Shoreham Town Council met with state Representative Tina Spears and Senator Alana DiMario on Friday to go over the town’s legislative priorities for the General Assembly’s session. Both women are new for Block Island. Spears is a first-time.
After what Block Island Water Company Superintendent John Breunig described as “clerical and quorum issues,” the Joint Water and Sewer Commissions finally mustered a minimum quorum to hold a public hearing and pass water usage restrictions for the.
Block Island Recycling Management has requested and received permission to raise trash disposal and commercial recycling rates from the New Shoreham Town Council. But that permission did not come without an involved discussion. BIRM sent a letter to.
The Town Council attacked a laundry list of topics at its last meeting of 2022, quickly moving through some topics and giving a thorough airing to others. On the quick list: The council approved commercial shellfishing licenses for 2023 based on the.
The Old Harbor Task Force’s annual memo to the Town Council led to some meaty conversations at the council’s meeting on December 21, in turn leading to what might be called a road map for 2023. The task force’s mission is to bring improvements to.