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 ...

After hitting a post-covid all-time high in real estate sales in 2020, total sales per year are still declining on Block ...

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 ...

Looking for something new to do or learn this winter? The following programs, taught or led by residents, are sponsored by ...

Twenty-five years ago, I submitted a handful of short pieces of writing to Peter Wood, then Editor/Publisher of The Block ...

In the human imagination, islands attract the narrative of extremes: Heaven or hell, oasis or outpost, secluded or severed.

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 ...

The word cherubim, plural for cherub, was first mentioned in the book of Genesis. Genesis 3:24 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword ...

They have been around for several years, chickens on Old Town Road. They have a range, it seems, from Calico Hill down to Town Hall, over to Connecticut Avenue and back to Town Hall. I don't know if ...

The presentation of the film “Backyard Wilderness” on Saturday, December 28, will be the first of this winter’s Film and Soup offerings by The Nature Conservancy and Island Free Library. “Backyard ...

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A major area of focus for the New Shoreham Planning Board over the past few years has been housing, and on December 11 they held a Public Hearing on ordinance changes and heard a presentation from ...