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January 14, 2008

No day off for the kids on Block Island

Not all of Rhode Island’s students got the day off today.

The New Shoreham School District – which is comprised of about 140 students at Block Island School – braved the weather for the sake of education.

But to be fair, the weather bore little resemblance to the snow seen on the mainland.

“Because we’re surrounded by that big body of water, it’s a lot warmer out here,” Marsha Gutierrez, assistant to the superintendent, said.

“There’s no snow on the ground,” she said.

That doesn’t mean it was a breeze getting to school. Gutierrez takes the ferry to work; the first one was canceled because of the nasty winds, rain, and even a few flurries.

The precipitation may have started as snow, she said, but it turned to rain quickly. And by lunchtime, even the rain had died down.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

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