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News from New Shoreham

What happened, when, who's affected, and what's next — ferry changes, town decisions, shark sightings, openings and closings, and the occasional story that only makes sense if you know the island. No press-release reprints, and no pretending: we do not have a reporter standing in the Town Hall, so when a story starts as someone else's reporting we say whose and link to it. Send tips to news@getblockisland.com.

What counts as news out here: anything that changes an islander's week or a visitor's plan. A fare increase is news. A kitchen changing hands is news. The fireworks fund coming up short is news — we covered it. A press release about a "reimagined guest experience" is not news, and you will not find it here. In season we publish as things happen; off-season the island slows down, and honestly, so does this page — that's not neglect, that's accuracy.

Corrections run at the bottom of the story they fix, per the editorial policy. Wry closers are permitted; inaccurate ones are not.

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