Starting Block swim shop to open 2nd store December 21, 2010 12:00 AM For five years, Tammy Riffel has had the Starting Block swim shop at the Wichita Swim Club at 8323 E. Douglas.

So she's opening her second Starting Block in February at 1444 N. Maize Road, just north of 13th and Maize. "This is going to be so nice," she says of the roomy 1,300 square feet she'll have.

NEW SHOREHAM, R.I. – Olympic medalist Elizabeth Beisel became the first woman to swim from the Rhode Island mainland to Block Island on Saturday, completing the grueling 10.4-mile route to raise ...