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Today is Tuesday, July 14, the 195th day of 2009. There are 170 days left in the year.

Yes, it was a cold and rainy June all over New England, and tourism is way off, from Mystic to Maine.

The undertaker of the insect world is beginning to make a comeback from its own near-death experience.

Phillipe and Jorge are delighted to see that Paul Suttell, our pick for Chief Justice of the Vo Dilun Supreme Court, smoothly sailed through the General Assembly to assume that grand position.

A so-called "invasion" of starfish proclaimed by the Boston Globe is being called greatly exaggerated and a natural phenomenon by those who closely watch the bay.

Millie Arzuaga had a good day fluke fishing aboard the part boat Seven Bs south of Block Island.

Keith Stockley with a 49-pounder taken aboard Played For It , just off the southern side of Jamestown, according to Will Barbeau of East Bay Anglers.

Deepwater Wind , the energy company selected by Governor Carcieri to develop a major offshore wind energy project south of Block Island, today was awarded two leases to do wind exploratory work in waters off New Jersey.

Bluefin tuna, in the 20- to 25-pound class, have been feeding on sand eels off the southwest side of the island this week, said Al Conti of Snug Harbor Marina.

A Block Island ferry employee has been charged with drunken driving in connection with a single-vehicle crash that left a coworker dead and two women injured.

The victim in a fatal Block Island crash has been identifed by police as Mitchell Paskins.

THE LOW ANTHEM SET THEIR SIGHTS ON SUMMER NONESUCH RECORDS DEBUT: OH MY GOD, CHARLIE DARWIN "stately... lyrics contemplating faith, loss, destruction and self-destruction." -New York Times "stunning... they deserve everything said about them." -BBC "...the Low Anthem craft homemade, warm hearted Americana populated by train workers and road ...

As Rhode Island moves to expand its renewable energy market, lobbyists at the Statehouse are finding the debate provides a different form of green power: cash.

Brendan Richards, pictured, caught bass drifting eels aboard the charter boat L'il Toot in the Rip at the northern end of Block Island this week.

The father-and-son fishing teams of George and George Jr. Friedlander from Fall River and Mike and Zack McGaw from Portsmouth hit the stripers pretty hard on the southwest corner of Block Island Monday, says Mike McGaw.

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"We don't have five dudes on stage pounding out power chords, so we need to find other ways to fill up all that space," said Shawn Garrity, one-half of the multitasking siblings known as VulGarrity .

Nearly identical bills that would pave the way for National Grid to set up long-term contracts to purchase renewable energy have unanimously passed key committees in the House and Senate.

SHACK UP: Miller, Prystowsky, and Adams threw together a patchwork studio and spent a week hunkered down in a Block Island cabin to record Oh My God, Charlie Darwin .