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May 13, 2012
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Obituary: E.Y. Clark
April 26, 2012
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April 23, 2012
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April 18, 2012
Opinion
Editorial: Just hold it?
May 17, 2012
Column: Not as easy as it looked on television
May 12, 2012
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Editorial: Fair’s fair
Councilman Paul Shepherd’s got a point when he says the town’s policy on employee health contributions rewards the strong and punishes the weak. Aside from the brouhaha over the three unofficial beaches the county wants the town to post with “swimming prohibited” signs, Mr. Shepherd’s crusade is the talk of the...
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Editorial: Accountability
According to County Executive Steve Bellone, who has been on the job for just two months, Suffolk County is facing a staggering three-year budget deficit of $530 million. In Washington that’s chump change, but here it’s huge — close to 20 percent of the $2.7 billion the county spends in...
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Editorial: Public process?
It has often been said that Americans get the government they deserve. That’s apparently as true on Shelter Island as it is in any other community. It’s that time of year when taxpayers hold tight to their wallets as the Board of Education mulls the coming year’s budget proposal. But you,...
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Editorial: Thinking ahead
Two Shelter Island town councilmen, Ed Brown and Paul Shepherd, have said “no” to supporting legislation pending again in Albany this year that would create a Peconic Bay Regional Transportation Authority (PBRTA). A three-person majority of the Town Board has backed the proposal, which comes up for local approval every...
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Editorial: Ten years on life support
The Town Board is running a new proposal up the flagpole for tweaking the zoning code’s rules governing pre-existing, non-conforming uses — those businesses operating in residential neighborhoods legally because they date back to the days before zoning. The Chequit, Ram’s Head and La Maison Blanche inns are among the...
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Editorial: Dangerous game
Setauket County Legislator Kara Hahn’s proposed law to halt county open space acquisitions for 90 days, trim down the program’s wish list and resume purchases only on a pay-as-you go basis must seem eminently reasonable to a lot of people who don’t know eastern Suffolk well. As they see it, the...
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Editorial: Spring light
It’s the dead of winter, only a little more than halfway through the long wait until a T-shirt and a pair of shorts are all you need to throw on to head out of the house. It’s been an easy winter so far: kind of mild, most of the time, and...
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Editorial: Blurry picture
Cablevision is good at annoying people. It’s doing it lately with its clumsy, contradictory signals about its ongoing and oft-delayed conversion to all-digital transmissions. Grumbling about the company, no matter what it does, is only natural. People will always resent paying a goodly sum every month for their cable service if...
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Editorial: Saving the manor
Sylvester Manor’s preservation is so important to Shelter Island’s future that any hint of a bump in the road is news. It was just a little disturbing to learn from Supervisor Jim Dougherty last week that Sylvester relatives in Pennsylvania had complicated a title search that is necessary to close two...
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Editorial: Smooth transition
Shelter Island has relied on the devotion, dedication and skill of its local all-volunteer ambulance corps for generations. They have trained, stood by and responded at all hours of the day and night to help Islanders in distress. Nothing has changed about that. The same good people still stand ready to...
