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Special Thanks

Thu, Jul 29

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To the Editor, I’d like to thank New England Airlines for getting my prescription meds to the island in the fog. We had several days of foggy, no fly weather, so they placed a bunch of prescriptions on the boat and called us to let us know they were at the airport. When I picked mine up there were...
Hey Parents

Thu, Jul 29

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To The Editor: I’ve noticed a trend with teens this summer... I’ve noticed that the good, polite kids have gotten even better and the, let’s just say, “not as respectful” teens have gotten worse. To this I say: “Hey Parents, some of you are doing a really great job, and some of you....well, not so...
Think about the future

Thu, Jul 29

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To the Editor, Now is the time to think about the future of Block Island. How do we want Block Island to be known throughout the country? Recently it has been called a “party” island. Is this what we want it to be? Recently, both sides of Corn Neck Road have been cluttered with parked cars, making...
Be like Dave

Thu, Jul 29

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To the Editor, My wife and I decided it was time to break into the world of boating. Both of us are complete novices and through the power of Amazon, we now have a 12 foot inflatable boat and a shiny new engine. Both purchases were made prior to my learning that I would undergo emergency spinal...
RIAC responds

Thu, Jul 22

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To the Editor: The Rhode Island Airport Corporation is again compelled to respond to misinformation included in a letter sent to the Editor on July 2, 2021. In this letter, Mr. Henry duPont makes several false statements, which we will continue to correct. In his letter: Mr. duPont asserts that...
The kindness of strangers

Thu, Jul 22

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To the Editor, My husband and I visited Block Island on Tuesday, July 13 for the day. We were searching for the location of Dead Eye Dick’s restaurant around 12:30 p.m. and ended up in the Block Island Grocery Store parking lot when we were approached by a slender blonde woman with glasses. She...
BIHS fundraiser a success

Thu, Jul 22

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To the Editor, What a wonderful community Block Island is! Thanks to another successful Virtual Fundraiser and Silent Auction for the Block Island Medical Center, over $133,000 will go directly to help fund the Medical Center’s current operating expenses. We are grateful to the island businesses...
Barbershop festival Saturday

Thu, Jul 22

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Dear people, Well, the 56th Annual Barbershop Festival will be on in spite of the pandemic. For years we sang at St. Andrew Church on Chapel Street. Tickets were $20 each and all net proceeds went to the Mary D. Fund. This year, because of Covid, it will be significantly different. It will be held...
Unexpected opportunities

Thu, Jul 15

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To the Editor, I am writing to express my thanks to the Block Island community for welcoming me the past two summers and greatly impacting my medical career. As a senior emergency medicine resident physician at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, the majority of my training has been...
No expert

Thu, Jul 15

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To the Editor, Thank you for the expansive and informative article on green crabs in your July Summer Times. I enjoyed being interviewed for the piece and appreciate the mention of several individuals and organizations that are engaged in green crab research; they are the experts, not me. Thanks is...
Almost a record

Thu, Jul 15

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To the Editor, We have wonderful news to share about our latest blood drive. We received 45 units! This missed our all-time record of 47 in 2014. At that time, there was a very young boy on the island with leukemia. The turnout was extraordinary and the boy battled his way through the disease and...
Thank you

Fri, Jul 2

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To the Editor, Thank you to the Block Island community for your support and generosity for the Matt Kimball fundraiser held Sunday, June 27. We were overwhelmed by the generosity of local businesses that contributed to the event. With much appreciation, The Kimball Family
Too much litigation?

Fri, Jul 2

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To the Editor, Losing, losing, losing. You would think that with a new Block Island Town Council and including now a lawyer as a member that they would understand the island is not a sovereign nation. Somehow their decisions to file lawsuits seems to give them extreme power to govern without any...
RIAC plans need to be taken seriously

Fri, Jul 2

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To the Editor, Our town officials need to start taking RIAC plans to raise airport user fees and to turn our airport into an industrial park seriously. The Rhode Island Airport Corporation has targeted the five outlying airports like Block Island and Westerly for non-aviation related commercial...
Blood Drive July 1

Fri, Jun 25

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To the Editor: Our next blood drive will be Thursday, July 1st at the Block Island School gymnasium from 10 am til 3:45 pm. There are two very good reasons for donating. The first is obvious--you will save lives. The second is you will receive a handsome, patriotic T-shirt naming you as a blood...
Medical Center Fundraiser

Fri, Jun 25

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To the Editor, The Block Island Medical Center is hosting its Second Annual Virtual Fundraiser and Silent Auction from July 10 to July 17, 2021. Winners of the Silent Auction will be named on July 17 at 12:00 a.m. You may register on the website starting June 26 at https://BIMC2021.givesmart.com to...
Sharing expertise

Thu, Jun 17

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It takes a village to raise a child and on Block Island we are fortunate to be able to provide our students with internships and hands-on experience. Individuals have allowed students to explore career goals, develop professional working relationships, all while getting an in-depth perspective on...
Show of snow-white flowers

Thu, Jun 17

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To the Editor, I recently saw an article in The Times that indicated that Councilman Risom had witnessed a singular event, that he had apparently never witnessed on Block Island. He stated something about witnessing the police chief directing traffic at the ferry for the first time ever...
Show of snow-white flowers

Thu, Jun 17

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To the Editor, Perhaps most “islanders” and visitors noticed the outstanding display of the white flowering Japanese Rose – better known as the multiflora rose. Back in the 1940s and the early 50s this was touted and advertised as a “living hedge,” recommended by the United States Conservation...
What’s next?

Thu, Jun 17

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The following was copied to The Block Island Times Dear Town Council Members: We are co-owners and longtime residents of 561 Center Road, just down the hill from the airport, and one of our neighbors recently brought to our attention the Rhode Island Airport Corporation’s plans...
Lasting implications for growth

Thu, Jun 17

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To the Editor, From “Silas Marner,” written in 1861 by George Eliot: “The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which...
Tide Clock appreciated

Thu, Jun 17

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To the Editor, We want to thank The Committee for the Great Salt Pond, and others, for installing the tide clock within the information kiosk at the Andy’s Way beach entrance. What a novel idea! And...a big thanks to those brave souls who cut back the ‘embracing arms’ of the poison ivy along the...
No answers

Thu, Jun 10

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To the Editor, Thank you for your article about RIAC in the June 5, 2021 edition. RIAC has a net operating income of over $20,000,000 and a net worth of over $350,000,000. They are a public agency charged with operating all Rhode Island airports – and they do quite well financially despite the...
Block Island Yacht Club Creative Writing Contest

William Young

Fri, Jun 4

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To the Editor, The Block Island Yacht Club Creative Writing Contest had another great year despite the circumstances, and I want to thank everyone who helped make it a success. First I want to thank the BIYC members for supporting the contest with their financial contributions; we did not have a...
Take down the fence

Steve McQueeny

Fri, Jun 4

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To the Editor, Your story on the continuing restoration of the Southeast Lighthouse was enlightening. (The Block Island Summer Times, June 2021.) By the time the project is completed millions of dollars and more than twenty-five years will have been spent. Unfortunately it almost impossible for...
Next blood drive

Peter Greenman

Fri, Jun 4

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To the Editor, The results of our last blood drive are very encouraging. The manager from the Rhode Island Blood Center says: “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...
Balancing interests

Lisa Sprague

Fri, May 28

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To the Editor, I feel compelled to respond to “Bill Billings” (a pseudonym) letter in the May 15, 2021 issue of The Times. About RespectBI... RespectBI is a grassroots organization formed in the summer of 2020 in response to a way of life that went way out of control with increased traffic,...
Some thoughts from a Covid survivor

Ann Tickner

Fri, May 21

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Each of us has many identities. Three of mine are retired professor of world politics, feminist scholar, and COVID survivor. This is a story about putting all three together. When feminists want to talk about a big picture, in this case world politics, they usually start with a little picture,...
More on Financial Town Meeting

PS Wood

Fri, May 21

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To the Editor, There is much to applaud in Melanie Blane Wilk’s letter (and now Everett’s) concerning the vote at the recent Financial Town Meeting. In it, she examined at considerable length the controversial purchase of the “Overlook” property, paid for in part with local taxes on top of...
Preserving historic buildings

Scenic Block Island

Fri, May 21

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To the Editor Last week’s Block Island Times ran a front page story about the Captain Willis House (circa 1877). The Captain Willis House will be torn down and replaced with a larger home. Block Island is certainly well known for its pristine beaches, boating, and preserved land. However, we would...
Honoring Block Island

Kay and Keith Lewis

Fri, May 21

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To the Editor, With the approach of Memorial Day, thoughts turn to Legion Park, a place that commemorates so much Block Island history. It also played a key role in 2021 as our front line workers—the medical center, the rescue squad, fire department, police, and the American Legion—all did a superb...
More than mopeds...

Fri, May 14

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To the Editor: About RespectBI... Years ago the land from the Seaside expansion up to the Ernst property and down to Chapel Street was owned by Maria and Aldo Leone. Said land was donated to town by them to create Weldon’s Way and then their son Leo Leone and his beloved wife Lori Leone donated the...
RIAC has Block Island in its sights, once again

Fri, May 14

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To the Editor, The Rhode Island Airport Corporation is planning to impose a costly airport parking program at the Block Island and Westerly State Airports with no notice to the flying public as is required by RI State law. The parking program will include signage that will instruct anyone driving...
Re: Melanie Wilk’s letter in last weeks paper

Fri, May 14

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To the Editor Dear Sir, It was with great consternation that I read that letter from Melanie Wilk! She stated clearly, and with heartfelt feeling, just exactly how I have felt for many years after I came back to the island after spending twenty years away in the USN. I also come from a long line of...
Uncovering history

Fri, May 7

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To the Editor, In my opinion, Block Island’s greatest all-time gifts are the 350 miles of stone walls and its gorgeous topography. Unhappily, most of the walls are totally hidden from view. In 1982 when we bought our house, the home inspector outside, with deed in hand, said: “You’re supposed to...
Too many poles

Fri, May 7

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To the Editor, As I drove around the island recently, delighted by the colorful arrival of spring, the contrarian in me found fault with what took my eye: telephone poles. No longer just the single gray sticks that used to serve, but a new breed, some shoulder to shoulder with the sawed off stumps...
What was the thought process?

Fri, May 7

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To the Editor, My name is Melanie Blane Wilk. For those who don’t really know me, my roots run very deep here as both my maternal and paternal heritage goes back for many, many generations on the island. I have lived on Block Island all my life (so far) and have been witness to the many changes...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Fri, Apr 30

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Blood Drive May 6 To the Editor, Our next blood drive, the third this year, will be held at the Harbor Church on Thursday, May 6 from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. With warmer weather on our side, we look forward to topping our January and March drives. All you need do is make an appointment and then there...
Hope and spring

Fri, Apr 23

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To the Editor, After seeing Kerri Gaffett’s article “Hope, and spring, is in the air,” (BI Times, April 17, 2021), I was gladdened to find the accompanying photo of her dog, Winston. I was yet again reminded of the benevolence he extended to me—the soulful look in his eyes—as I struggled to lay my...
Not-so-mellow yellow

Fri, Apr 23

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To the Editor, I wonder if other readers have noticed that the colors of spring appear more vivid than ever. The random explosions of forsythia more yellow than yellow; the “hosts of golden daffodils” putting Wordsworth’s verse to shame; the magnolia by my barn an impossible cloud of blossoms;...
Still having fun

Fri, Apr 23

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To Block Island friends – here and off island, If you live on Block Island and want to have some fun, celebrate your 92nd birthday here. Whew! - it has been such fun. It started on April 13, and continues to this day. There is no way that I can express the joy and fun all of you showered on me...
Voters’ choice

Fri, Apr 23

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To the Editor: After months of work by the Town Council, the Land Trust, the Block Island Conservancy, and The Nature Conservancy, the Town Council voted at its meeting last night to put forward to the Financial Town Meeting a proposal to purchase the open space portion of what is commonly referred...
See you in court

Fri, Apr 23

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To the Editor, In spite of rebuff from Supreme Court, Champlin’s is still holding out for a backroom marina expansion approval. One would think that when the R.I. Supreme Court dismissed the Champlin’s/CRMC joint motion to the court to accept a CRMC approval for a secretly negotiated marina...
Housing search

Fri, Apr 16

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To the community, As you know, the Town of New Shoreham is in the process of hiring a police chief and I am reaching out to the community for housing options. We are looking for an affordable year-round house or apartment with two or three bedrooms, with a yard (I know it’s a tall order, but…). We...
BI Community Sailing welcomes new members for the 2021 sailing season

Fri, Apr 9

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Block Island Community Sailing, Inc. (BICS), the island’s educational, nonprofit community sailing organization, is looking forward to a full sailing season this summer including the launching and availability of our four sailboats which include two Raven 24s, a Soling, and our newly donated and...
Letters to the Editor

Fri, Apr 9

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Housing anyone? To the community, As you know, the Town of New Shoreham is in the process of hiring a police chief and I am reaching out to the community for housing options. We are looking for an affordable year-round house or apartment with two or three bedrooms, with a yard (I know it’s a tall...
Letters to the Editor

Thu, Apr 1

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Budgeting for hard times To the Editor, I know I should attend more Town Council meetings to ask the following questions. My excuse is I’m getting old, forgetful, and mindful of our shut in. Nevertheless, let me wonder why so often our taxes increase each year so much more than the inflation rate...
Letters to the Editor

Thu, Mar 25

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Point, counterpoint To the Editor, Mr. Douglas Gasner is absolutely correct. Approximately 2,500 years before Hemingway, the writer of Ecclesiastes (in the Jewish Scriptures and the Christian Old Testament) wrote: “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh...the sun also ariseth,...
Letters to the Editor

Thu, Mar 18

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Beware empty threats To the Editor: During the March 4 Town Council meeting to vote to amend town ordinances on mopeds, Beth Noonan, attorney for the moped operators, made claims of “legal impermissibility” of the ordinances, and threatened to sue the town should the ordinances pass. #RespectBI’s...
Letters to the Editor

Thu, Mar 11

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Champlin’s agreement skirts environmental requirements To the Editor, As a year-round resident and member of the Shellfish Commission charged with protecting and enhancing Block Island’s shellfish resources, I find the December 7, 2020 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Coastal Resources...

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