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Oct 14, 2022 · “Almost 20 years of angst evaporated in one sentence. It was pretty amazing,” Henry DuPont, a Block Island resident who is on the board of the Committee for The Great Salt Pond, one of the groups that fought Champlin’s expansion, told The Providence Journal’s Jim Hummel.
- What Would The Champlin's Marina Expansion Have entailed?
- How The Closed-Door Mediation Came About
- The Issue Heads to The Supreme Court — Twice
- After 20 Years, 'It's Finally Over'
In 2003, Champlin’s proposed nearly doubling the size of its facility, set on the western edge of the harbor. It would have extended its existing marina 240 feet into the Great Salt Pond in order to accommodate 140 additional boats. Champlin’s also has a hotel, restaurant and swimming pool. The opponents were concerned, among other things, about th...
CRMC’s attorney Anthony DeSisto and Goldberg, a former Senate minority leader, ran into each other in the spring of 2019 working as lobbyists at the State House. Before Rodgers’ decision, they had talked about potential mediation. In the fall of 2020, DeSisto suggested bringing in retired Supreme Court Justice Frank Williams, who has extensive medi...
Champlin’s then asked the Supreme Court to make the side agreement permanent. The high court directed Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Lanphear to hold hearings in the summer of 2021 to sift through whether the closed-door agreement was valid. After listening to testimony from seven witnesses over 13 days — including retired Chief Justice Williams taki...
Prentiss, who has represented the opponents from the beginning, said he was not worried that it took so long for the Supreme Court to make a decision. Oral arguments came in April, and traditionally, a decision is issued by the time the high court adjourns for the summer. “You have an agency [CRMC] that clearly acted in a rogue manner, a totally ou...
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Mar 27, 2021 · It’s like Christmas in March,” said longtime Block Island resident Henry duPont, a director on the board of The Committee for The Great Salt Pond, one of the groups that has been fighting the ...
Equipped with lights and noted on charts, the Block Island wind turbines don’t pose an unusual danger to mariners, Henry duPont says: “You could sail through them blind.” Neil Ever Osborne
May 3, 2001 · Henry duPont of Block Island, RI, is dissuaded from photographing and placing on his Web site the view of Block Island ferry terminal after ferry owner and operator, Interstate...
Aug 26, 2021 · Sept. 9 deadline looms for ruling on controversial Block Island marina deal. The mediated settlement of a controversial marina expansion on Block Island was a common-sense solution to nearly two ...
Jul 2, 2021 · However, after meeting her husband, Henry DuPont, a Block Island resident, Barbara made the move to the island herself. DuPont had already erected his own wind turbine in the house he built on land purchased from his grandmother, who had owned property on the island since the 1950s.
