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The Run Around

Mon, Sep 26

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To the Editor, The 45th Run Around The Block 15k Road Race went off without a hitch Saturday, Sept. 10, on a gorgeous day with 164 participants. The feedback has been fantastic and we already have some ideas to make it better in 2023. It was a great process getting the race back together but it...
Dodged the rain

Mon, Sep 26

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To the Editor, On Monday, September 12, the Block Island Lions Club held its September tournament at the Foster Country Club. Even though the weather looked dismal while we were on the ferry, the rain stopped, and it ended up being a great day for golf. Highlights of the day were: Women’s Longest...
Paying it forward

Mon, Sep 26

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Dear members of the Block Island Community, The students and staff of the Block Island School would like to extend their heartfelt thanks to the Mary D. Fund and Mary and Marguerite Donnelly for their generous support and enabling students grades 5 through 12, as well as interested faculty and...
It was a blast!

Sat, Sep 17

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To the Editor: It’s a little hard to believe, but due to either global shutdowns or bad weather, the annual July 4 fireworks display had not taken place on Block Island since 2019. Because of that, we, as members of the Double Ender Committee, locked in a Labor Day weekend rain date for the...
First fall blood drive a success

Sat, Sep 17

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To the Editor, I hope your day is going well. Another awesome blood drive with the Block Island community. The efforts of the Block Island community are greatly appreciated and their support of the community blood program will go a long way toward replenishing blood supplies that ultimately save...
International Student Center

Sat, Sep 17

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To the Editor, We had a wonderful season at the International Student Center at Harbor Church! Free, weekly dinners were served to an average of 50 to 60 student workers. Our Recreation Center was open three nights a week to serve as a ‘home away from home’ where student workers could relax, unwind...
Queer Block Island holds second annual Pride weekend

Fri, Sep 9

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Block Island is gearing up to celebrate its second annual Pride weekend September 15 to 18, with a fun itinerary organized by Queer Block Island. During the weekend, you can expect to witness killer drag performances, bumping dance parties, educational events, and a festive pride march! The concept...
Collaboration or just words?

Fri, Sep 9

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To the Editor, In 1988, my husband and I bought a beautiful upside-down house on a hill, brand new, and one of three that Jeff Phillips and Tom Neumeyer built in the Pheasant Trail area off Lakeside that overlooked Fresh Pond on one side and the ocean and New Harbor and Old Harbor on the other...
Saving lives

Fri, Sep 2

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To the Editor, Just before noon on Sunday August 28, a distress call went out on VHF CH 16 for a vessel having a medical emergency off Black Rock headed north, an unresponsive male. Not knowing the exact location or make of boat, Josh Moore, the Old Harbor dock master, Chris High, assistant dock...
Summer of ‘22

Fri, Sep 2

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To the Editor, Finally and thankfully the summer of ‘22 is coming to an end. Unfortunately B.I. has reached the tipping point. I don’t know what the solution is but I do know we are in over our collective heads. If we wish to remain “one of the last great places,” there has to be much more...
Time to try electric bikes?

Fri, Sep 2

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To the Editor, I have been an annual visitor to the island for more than 35 years, and I have a recommendation about the current “moped” problem. First off, they are not mopeds, they are scooters, and more closely related to motorcycles; there have not been actual mopeds for rent since the 80s...
Where are all the courageous leaders when we need them most?

Fri, Sep 2

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Alan Hassenfeld is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Hasbro Toys. Jim O’Neil is a former federal prosecutor who served as Rhode Island’s Attorney General for three terms. Both endorse Sarah Morgenthau for Rhode Island’s Second Congressional seat. There is a reason Rhode...
45th Run Around The Block Logo Contest Winner

Sat, Aug 27

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To the Editor, The Block Island Lions Club would like to thank everyone who entered our T-shirt Logo design content for the 45th Run Around the Block 15K Road Race that will return after the pandemic break on Saturday, September 10. After much consideration we decided on the logo above that was...
Something good

Sat, Aug 27

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To the Editor, With all the negative press as of late, I feel a need to write something positive. Last evening my wife and I attended the “Summer Symphony at the Sullivan” classical music concert. The Block Island Chamber of Commerce organized this event that was well received and was hugely...
Paradise Lost: Can we reclaim our island?

Sat, Aug 27

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The following was sent to the New Shoreham Town Council and copied to the Tourism Council and The Block Island Times: We’re writing in support of Michael Rock’s perceptive letter to The Block Island Times and the excellent comments of many other residents and visitors who have responded...
Community Standard

Sat, Aug 27

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To the Editor, A number of years ago I was associated with the National Coalition Against Pornography. This grassroots organization made tremendous strides towards reducing or eliminating sordid sex establishments in small towns around the country. Strip clubs, massage parlors, and adult bookstores...
Block Island Walk to End Alzheimer's in memory of Peter Greenman

Sat, Aug 27

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To the Editor, This will be the first Block Island Walk to End Alzheimer's without founder Peter Greenman leading the way. Peter, who for years took care of his wife Sandy with Alzheimer's, passed away from cancer after the 2021 Walk. He never stopped fundraising for a cure, even while he was sick...
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Heartfelt thanks

Fri, Aug 19

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To the Editor, We wanted to give our heartfelt thanks to the community on behalf of our mother, Ruth Mahoney. To the first responders, Rescue Squad, Medical Center, and all who offered help, kind words, lovely thoughts, beautiful flowers, prayers and well wishes...all we can say is thank you so...
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Defining the island

Fri, Aug 19

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To the Editor, I agree with the letter Michael Rock wrote in last week’s newspaper [August 12, 2022]. I also wrote a letter last summer about the same topic. The island must define itself for what it wants to be, if not, as we have seen, it will be defined for us by others. The definition must...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Remembering Ruth

Sat, Aug 13

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To the Editor, A woman ahead of her time, Ruth Mahoney was a leader in her community and in the lives of all she touched on Block Island, R.I. A small community consisting of yearround families and those who come into the downtown area were all welcomed into Mahoney Clothiers. Ruth was an expert...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: No idling

Sat, Aug 13

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The following was sent to Interstate Navigation and copied to The Block Island Times: To the Editor, Since my parents first purchased a home on Mohegan Trail in 1980, I’ve been a frequent Block Island ferry customer. In the early ‘80s that meant bouncy voyages on the Manitou and...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: A huge fluke!

Sat, Aug 13

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Hi B.I. Times! We love you guys! We vacation for a week each summer - it’s always a highlight to read the B.I. Times on the ferry over (we also follow you on insta all year!). We finally may have something ‘B.I. news worthy’... this week we chartered the ‘Pale Horse ’...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Great Salt Pond Swim – 7

Sat, Aug 13

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To the Editor: On Saturday, July 30, our seventh annual pond swim took place at Andy’s Way, The Great Salt Pond Swim – 7. 110 swimmers took part in the event, ranging in age from 13 to 82 (age correction from our article). It was a beautiful, sunny day this year with a light breeze blowing in from...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: All about branding

Sat, Aug 13

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To the Editor, A brand is considered in crisis when it fails to shape its own narrative and instead is defined by exterior forces, events, and voices. So early Tuesday morning, when the New York Post website (133,600,000 monthly views) ran the headline “Multiple Injured in Fight Aboard...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Problems and seeking possible solutions

Sat, Aug 13

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To the Editor, The events over the summer and cumulating last weekend after the Reggae Festival with disruptive events, has resulted in unwelcome, yet justified publicity. Block Island has been on a quest to make itself a destination of choice to bolster its tourism income and has succeeded, to a...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Call for action

Sat, Aug 13

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The following was sent to the Town Council and copied to The Block Island Times: To the Editor, Town Council, please do what is best and safest for this community as a whole. It is time for the Council members to serve this community, to immediately enact some regulations and...
Remembering Rick

Sat, Aug 6

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To the Editor, Rick Hall - Richard Allen Hall - left us and the world for good last week. And though I know only pieces of his previous life, most are colorful and some deserve recounting. Many were spent on or beside the sea. As deckhand or mate, Rick crewed on fishing boats and though I don’t...
Glow sticks?

Sat, Aug 6

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This letter was sent to the Town Council and copied to The Block Island Times : The Committee for The Great Salt Pond has worked tirelessly for decades to help protect what we all know and love as "The Pond." Champlin's Resort is now advertising a "Glow Party” event for this...
On too many cars...

Sat, Aug 6

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To the Editor, Oh, how I wish I could make a comment to the traffic problem along with my daughter who comes over by boat quite often. This summer we both discussed “No Cars,” except for home owners and business owners. It works great with Mackinac in Michigan and why couldn’t it work on B.I.? More...
Thank you from the Mary D. Fund

Sat, Aug 6

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To the Editor, A “veggie” big thank you to Lily and Grace, their parents Laura and John Breunig and grandmother Barby Michel for helping Lily’s compassionate plan for their Garden Stand with 50 percent of sales going to The Mary D. Fund! Your “veggie” big hearts inspire and mean so much! Thank you...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Above and beyond at the beach pavilion

Fri, Jul 29

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To the Editor, On one painfully hot July 22, 2022, the campers of Camp Mohegan, where I work as a camp counselor, visited the Fred Benson Town Beach. Among our campers for the day was my younger sister, Laurel, who experiences faintness in extreme heat. About an hour-and-a-half into our beach day,...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: A community that keeps on giving

Fri, Jul 29

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To all of our generous donors and supporters, All of us on the Fundraising Committee for the Medical Center Virtual Auction want to express our heartfelt gratitude for all of the support we received from this community. So many businesses and individuals extended themselves to help us raise...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Setting the tone, part one

Fri, Jul 29

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To the Editor, I have had the great fortune to come to Block Island for 35 years. In recent years, I have been able to be out for the entire month of June, working on my family’s place, riding my bike, walking the greenways and the beaches. I am neither a resident nor a tourist, caught a bit in the...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Setting the tone, part two

Fri, Jul 29

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To the Editor, It was disappointing to hear the comment, “Block Island’s always been a party place,” spoken by our First Warden and broadcast on the Channel 12 news last week. Block Island has always been a fun place to visit, but it has so much more to offer. Beautiful beaches, miles of walking...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Setting the tone, part three

Fri, Jul 29

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The Below was sent to The Town Council on July, 26 and copied to The Block Island Times Dear Members of the Town Council, I am writing this morning to follow up on last night’s meeting. I entered the meeting prepared to discuss the ways the Town and its business owners could work together...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Thanks for the Mary D. Fund

Fri, Jul 29

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To the Editor, Over the past year, the Block Island Maritime Institute (BIMI) has received support from the Mary D. Fund. In the fall of 2022, BIMI brought baby sharks into Laurie McTeague’s first grade classroom. While in the classroom the sharks inspired the students’ writing and the students...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Kindness on the flats

Sat, Jul 23

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To the Editor, Below is an incident that occurred on the clam flats early evening, July 18, that I wanted to share: Today, with low tide at the late hour of 6:30 p.m., along with a steady rain and stiff breeze, the clammers were few and far between. About 5:30 p.m. a couple of 12-yearold...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: New family tradition

Sat, Jul 23

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To the Editor, For the past 33 years my family has been vacationing on Block Island. Three generations of my family spend a week on Block Island enjoying the surf, sand, shops, dine arounds, and quaintness of the island. Annually, my grandchildren from Mendham, N.J. have a lemonade stand at the...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: From the left coast

Sat, Jul 23

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To the Editor, I am so very proud of the women who organized and marched in the peaceful reproductive rights demonstration on July 7, and bravo to the crowd at the National who cheered them on! Here in Seattle, my husband Arlen and I marched in the reproductive rights for women parade in protest of...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Block Island Lions Club Golf Tournament results

Sat, Jul 23

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To the Editor, On Monday, July 11, the Block Island Lions Club held its 36th annual golf tournament at the Richmond Country Club. Players from the island, as well as many mainland golfers, joined together for a perfect day of golf. All proceeds benefit the scholarship fund or educational enrichment...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fri, Jul 15

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To the Editor, My granddaughter, LC, hiked from Mansion Beach to Settlers Rock today and hauled three loads of beach trash out. All by herself, over four hours. There is still lots more there that could be removed! Boat parts, lobster pot parts, lots of line, and plain old garbage. Your work is...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fri, Jul 15

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To the Editor, To the members of the Block Island Volunteer Rescue Squad, the team of professionals at the Block Island Medical Center and the citizens and police who were first responders: Your training, selfless dedication, and personal care kept our son’s moped crash from becoming a parent’s...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fri, Jul 15

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To the Editor, One week ago, we had an experience that points out the basic fact that you should ensure that your smoke detectors are in working condition. During the early morning the smoke detector in our rental cottage went off, thus alerting our tenants that something was happening. The problem...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fri, Jul 15

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To the Editor, This letter is a continuation of a letter written previously entitled Series 1 Episode 1. We now enter S1 E2 due to a plethora of island information that you might not find anywhere else. There was a time ago when there would be a police blotter in the paper but it disappeared years...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fri, Jul 8

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To the Editor, On behalf of the Double Ender Celebrations committee, we would like to say thank you to the community for supporting our 37th Independence Day parade. The theme for this year’s parade was “Celebrate Block Island.” We were happy to see participation from many island businesses and...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fri, Jul 8

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To the Editor, I will entitle this letter Series 1 “S1”, Episode “E1”, because that’s how much information I would like to relay to the public. Block Island, the beautiful bucolic island most of the time, out at sea, a would-be stress-free zone, is under attack. Unfortunately, much of our problems...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fri, Jul 8

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To the Editor, After two years of severely restricted pandemic travel, our international student summer workers have returned to Block Island in force. Our work force has been augmented this season by over 200 college students on a cultural exchange worker program that grants J-1 visas for summer...
Update on Medical Center renovations

Fri, Jul 1

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To the Editor, As many of you know, we have been actively engaged in a project to transform the Block Island Medical Center by updating and expanding critically important clinical space and adding much-needed housing for visiting medical residents, students, and physicians. The Center, which has...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fri, Jul 1

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To the Editor, Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of Rajpipla, India celebrated International Pride Month with a visit to Block Island. The Prince began his visit to the United States in New Jersey with a string of performances as part of the Open Hearts Weekend and his New Jersey premiere of the...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Sat, Jun 25

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To the Editor, We are all mourning the loss of this beloved, larger-than-life icon. Although I have not kept in touch with him much over the last 10 years, I felt the need to share these words about someone who helped mold my passion for the island. I met Dave growing up and surfing in Green Hill...

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