Ambrose Clancy, Author at Shelter Island Reporter

09/20/17 4:30pm

Heavy weather: Board considers local effects of climate change

REPORTER FILE PHOTO| Bridge Street in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.

The timing was perfect.

With Texas and Louisiana recovering from Hurricane Harvey, Florida still in shock from the devastation of Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria rampaging through the Caribbean, a tropical storm brushing past the East End this week and fears of a monster storm coming next week, Tuesday’s Town Board work session led off with a presentation about climate change and its effects on communities. (more…)

“Solarize Southampton”, David Arntsen, DEC’s Sea Level Task Force, Devitt Spellman Barrett, Green Options Advisory Committee, he Peconic Estuary Program, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Maria, Lori Beard Raymond, PEP’s Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan

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09/15/17 4:30pm

Column: Back to basics — remembering Bob Reiter

by Ambrose Clancy

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BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTO

Saturday afternoon I was on my way to pay my respects to Bob Reiter’s family who were having a memorial service for him at the fish market and restaurant that bear his name.

Bob had passed away in July. (more…)

Ambrose Clancy, Beau Payne, Bob Reiter, Coecles harbor, Greenport, Mark Kanarvogel, scallop, Sylvester Manor

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09/14/17 8:00am

Shelter Island Election season is on

by Ambrose Clancy

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COURTESY PHOTO

The political wisdom that election season begins after Labor Day is not quite true for Shelter Island — the kick off is always a bit later than the first Monday in September. (more…)

Albert Dickson, Amber Brach-Williams, Assessors Craig Wood, Charity Robey, Columbus Day, Councilman Jim Colligan, Councilwoman Chris Lewis, Gary Gerth, Jay Card Jr., League of Women Voters, Long Island Veterans Service Agency, Marcus Kaasik, Patricia Castoldi, St. Gabriel’s site, Supervisor Jim Dougherty, Town Clerk Dorothy Ogar

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09/04/17 10:00am

Column: The meaning of the day

by Ambrose Clancy

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JULIE LANE PHOTO

One of the things the British get right is leaving the long weekends that begin and end summer without names weighed down with significance.

Over there they’re called “bank holidays,” a generic term simply meaning a long weekend with Monday off.

We insist on calling the summer kickoff Memorial Day, which has recovered some of its original meaning because of mounting numbers of dead Americans some of us remember for their service in the misguided wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But Labor Day lost its original meaning long ago. (more…)