The weather didn’t spell doom and gloom for everyone this summer, as the Harbors Department bucked the downward trend experienced by many businesses and town departments, although the season did
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.
On Memorial Day 1962, a young writer and his wife took the wood-hulled ferry the Sprigg Carroll from Point Judith to Block Island. The couple were looking for a getaway
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
Block Island Health Services has embarked on a new Planning and Zoning journey with a changed design for additions to the medical center on Payne Road. The Planning Board approved the Medical Center’s initial design at a meeting in September, 2021.