For the last five years (plus/minus), there has been a formal effort to count seals hauled out during winter low tides around Block Island. This effort has been in conjunction with Save The Bay’s more than 25-year effort to monitor seal prese…

Mar 28, 2025 · “I was looking at it more closely over the past several days and I think it needs an entire rewrite in my opinion,” said First Warden Keith Stover at the outset of a public hearing on March 19 on changes to the zoning ordinances that define tents, trailers and shipping containers, as well as under what circumstances they may be used.

Spring comes early this year, on the 20th of March in the last hours of darkness. Winter held truer this year than it has the past few, first that it came for more than one storm and more that it lasted, giving the ice boaters more days of sa…

Cooking orzo pasta in the traditional way that risotto is made with Arborio rice, yields the perfect creamy dish. Add lemon and asparagus and you have the perfect spri…

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Mar 21, 2025 · The shores of Fresh Pond on Sunday, March 16, still wearing the browns and tans of winter. The Block Island Land Trust is considering granting a cultural easement to the Manisseans on six acres it owns across the street from the Indian Cemetery.

Aug 19, 2023 · A fire has all but destroyed the historic Harborside Inn in the downtown area of Block Island. The fire appears to have started a little after 11 p.m. Friday night.

Feb 7, 2025 · The island census is, of course, an informal affair, although one guy shows up in a top hat every year. Still, it is considered locally to be more accurate than the United States Census conducted by the Federal Government every 10 years.

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Jan 3, 2025 · 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 on Block Island – there were no large fires, no fatal accidents, no hurricanes.