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11/14/09 – ‘Smart energy’ grant for the Vineyard MARTHA’S VINEYARD — The Vineyard Energy Project, a nonprofit group that promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency, will get a $787,...
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Corrected Block Island deer hunting dates and regulations
11/14/09 – Archery: November 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 2009 Shotgun: November 23 and 24, 2009 December 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 2009 January 4, 5, 7,...
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NAME THAT DOMICILE
11/14/09 — Can you locate this island home depicted here in a painting by Jessie Edwards? Send an email to peter@blockislandtimes.com to let us know.
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GIRL SCOUT VISIT
11/14/09 — Members of the Junior Girl Scout Troop #264 of East Greenwich visited Block Island recently and received a tour of the North Light. Here they are at the ferry landing in Old Harbor. Ph...
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Thanksgiving oysters November 24
11/14/09 – For the fourth year running, Sun Farm Oyster will donate approximately 2,000 oysters for charity at Thanksgiving. Oyster lovers looking to pick up a dozen home grown bivalves for...
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What the Woolly Bear caterpillars have to say about winter on Block Island
11/14/09 – The “Original Society of the Friends of the Woolly Bear” started at Bear Mountain State Park on the Hudson River in 1946. The society’s much acclaimed winter forecast, based sole...
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FUTURE LIFEGUARDS
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11/14/09 - Can you identify these two eight-year olds in the lifeguard dory at State Beach in 1952? They actually went on to become lifeguards in 1965. Drop us a line at peter@blockislandtimes.com.
Free scallop event canceled
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11/14/09 - The Block Island Maritime Institute’s Saturday scallop giveaway has been cancelled due to expected foul weather. BIMI had planned to remove the last of scallops from this year’s restor...
Katie Latimer to present program at Stew & Story
by Fran Migliaccio
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11/14/09 - On November 21, a Block Island audience will have the pleasure of hearing an after dinner program of stories told by professional Rhode Island storyteller Katie Latimer, as part of Ste...
Ecumenical celebration of Thanksgiving and Remembrance Nov. 22
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11/14/09 - On Sunday, November 22, the Block Island Ecumenical Ministries and the Block Island Ecumenical Choir will present its annual celebration of Thanksgiving and Remembrance at 3 p.m. at th...
SNAPPING UP SOME NOVEMBER SUN
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11/14/09 — A young snapping turtle was observed scampering across the yellow lines on Mohegan Trail this week. Photo by Jessie Edwards
Obituary: Jennifer Closset, 32
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Jennifer Closset passed away in Tucson, Ariz., October 19, 2009, from undetermined causes. She was born in Suffern, N.Y., and grew up in Pomona, N.Y. in Rockland County. Jennifer summered on Bloc...
BEAUTIFY THE AIRPORT
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11/07/09 — Block Island Gardeners planted daffodil bulbs at the entrance to Block Island Airport on October 10. “Zuni” and Ruth Zelitch, Anita and Tony Miller, Gillian and Ken Moss, Steve Robison...

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