Tag: New Shoreham
$3.8M in Learn365RI grants awarded across 29 municipalities
PROVIDENCE – Twenty-nine municipalities received a total of $3.8 million in Learn365RI grants to create or expand extended learning programs, with many focusing on...
$12M awarded for municipal resilience projects
PROVIDENCE – Twenty communities across the state that participated in the Municipal Resilience Program were awarded a total of $12 million in grants, Gov....
License revoked for inspector who OK’d Harborside Inn’s fire suppression system
NEW SHOREHAM – The inspector who signed off on Harborside Inn’s fire suppression system has had his license revoked by the state, WPRI-TV CBS...
Block Island police chief resigns
NEW SHOREHAM – Chief of Police John Lynch will be stepping down from the department after less than a year on the job.
Town Manger...
Ballard’s Beach Resort fined $50,000 for illegal beach structures
PROVIDENCE – A notorious beach bar on Block Island finds itself in hot water once again.
The R.I. Coastal Resources Management Council has fined Ballard’s...
BroadbandBI officially launches on Block Island
PROVIDENCE – State and congressional leaders on Monday celebrated the official launch of BroadbandBl, Rhode Island’s first 100% publicly owned, taxpayer-financed broadband network that...
RIPTA receives $5M in federal Safe Streets funding
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Public Transit Authority will receive $5 million to develop a Safe Streets action plan covering 29 communities across the state,...
6 R.I. communities reject cannabis sales; combined $1.4B in local school...
PROVIDENCE – Voters in 25 Rhode Island communities Tuesday approved recreational cannabis sales, while another six rejected allowing pot businesses to set up in...
Ballard’s Beach bar ordered to remove ‘unauthorized’ structures
NEW SHOREHAM – The problems continue for Ballard’s Beach Resort on Block Island.
This time the ire comes from the Coastal Resources Management Council. That...
Decision pending after emergency DBR hearing on Ballard’s appeal
NEW SHOREHAM – Ballard's Beach Resort has appealed the decision by the New Shoreham Board of License Commissioners to suspend the liquor and entertainment...
