After a lengthy back and forth, members of the Town Council of New Shoreham tweaked the resolution for a new transportation ...

Healthy Aging Coordinator and on Tuesday she met with members of the Senior Advisory Committee to get them up to speed on ...

It has been a while since The Block Island Times has engaged in a conversation on the status of global warming with Dr.

The NAMI Block Island Board is excited to welcome Brett Robinson to Block Island. Robinson is no stranger to the island and ...

The Block Island Collaborative is proud to announce the start of our monthly Book Walk Series at Ball O’Brien Park. The ...

Presentation of the film “The Map to Paradise,” on Tuesday, January 28 at 6 p.m., will be the first of this winter’s Film and ...

While bike riding around Fort Adams recently, I saw a few of the vessels that are part of the new wind farm industry off the ...

In the human imagination, islands attract the narrative of extremes: Heaven or hell, oasis or outpost, secluded or severed. In the category of banishment and exile, islands historically have housed ...

As we turn the calendars to 2025 and look back at 2024, the biggest story may be that there was not one. The island gained a police chief but lost a town manager, but overall, it was a peaceful year ...

It will be 2025 when this paper “hits the streets.” The weather has been the usual end-of-December chaos, days of questionable boat rides coupled with fog so thick the planes don't fly, of frost on ...

In the past couple of years, both the state of Rhode Island and the Town of New Shoreham have instituted rules for the registration of short-term rentals. On the state side, the registration is with ...

In July of 1963, a friend and I were sitting on the beach clocking girls and he says to me, “Hey Joey, you want to hear a poem I wrote last night?” I looked at this kid and was baffled by what he said ...