BLOCK ISLAND – Edith Littlefield Blane, 95, the trailblazing first woman to be elected first warden on Block Island, died peacefully at home Monday. “She still looked so beautiful,” Robin Lewis Vila, ...
On a cold February day in 2024, I found a small newspaper clipping printed seven decades before. The story of roughly 100 ...
Every now and again a part of a state gets it in their collective head that they would be better off as their own state. Take New York. Over and over again since the 1990s, bills have been introduced ...
NEW SHOREHAM, R.I. (WPRI) — Block Island’s waterfront landscape is about to look a lot different. Demolition is officially underway on the historic Harborside Inn, which went up in flames last month.
EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — When students in Westerly and Block Island head back to school this year, they’ll be a part of history. That’s because for the first time ever in Rhode Island, electric ...
Offshore turbines let Block Island shut down soot-spewing, earsplitting diesel generators. There were other benefits, too. 50 States, 50 Fixes Offshore turbines let Block Island shut down soot-spewing ...
The historic Rhode Island hotel ravaged by a fire last weekend is a total loss that will be torn down, authorities said Wednesday.The Harborside Inn on Block Island was severely damaged in a blaze ...
Most people claim that it is shaped like a pork chop, others a teardrop, and a few an upside-down mini South America. And the shape of the island matters, or so you’d think, given the sheer number of ...
NEW SHOREHAM, R.I. (WJAR) — For NBC 10’s Summer of Fun, A.J. Mastrangelo and Molly Levine are continuing their explorations on Block Island. They checked out all the 3-by-7-mile island has to offer ...