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Sports
Sunset Beach asks for Bastille Day party permit
June 19, 2013
Education
This week in Shelter Island history
June 7, 2013
Business
Merchants, board look to lower speed on Bridge St.
June 17, 2013
Driveway settlement? Judge may impose decision
June 13, 2013
Community
Bausman steps down as Island Red Cross CEO
June 17, 2013
Obituaries
Obituary: Barbara Joy Roberts Carlsen
May 28, 2013
Obituary: Reporter staffer David Lee Draper
May 20, 2013
Real Estate
This week in Shelter Island history
May 30, 2013
Opinion
Letters to the Editor: Dark skies, pro and con
June 13, 2013
Letters to the Editor
June 11, 2013
Posts by Joanne Sherman:
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Joanne Sherman: Parting is such sweet confusion
It takes me longer every year to pack our motor home for the trek that leads us snowbirds from Shelter Island to Key West. This year our RV had been serviced,...
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From the slow lane: Our own Island caught between clashing forks
Is it any wonder that Shelter Island sometimes feels like the unwanted child in a custody battle, getting tossed between the legislative districts of two forks, neither of which really seems care if they get us or get to keep us? Yes, well, it’s déjà vu all over again! In 1992...
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Column: A bit of pomp, circumstance, & potato salad
Back in 2000, when this year’s departing seniors were in kindergarten, my graduation column focused on the importance of potato salad. As the picture of the tiny tykes on page 2 of the graduation supplement included with this edition of the Reporter shows, those kindergarten kids have changed a whole...
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Column: Varroom! Tales from the pits
Memorial Day Weekend is not at the top of my favorite holiday list. Oh, I look forward to the start of the season and I’ve never missed our annual parade. It’s just all the cars I can’t stand. I’m not talking about the sudden increase of traffic on our roads....
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Column: Not as easy as it looked on television
What was I thinking? It seemed like such a great project to tackle on Memorial Day Weekend. Three days was enough time to transform my kitchen from dark, dated and dingy to fresh and bright! All I needed was some paint, right? I mean, that’s how it happens on those...
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From the Slow Lane: The infrequent flier: a tale of frustration
At the risk of sounding like a frequent-flying whiner (as opposed to the occasionally flying whiner that I am) I miss the days of flying the friendly skies when the only question a flier had to answer was “coffee or tea?” Either I have a face that screams “guilty!” or I...
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Column: You know it’s time to come home when…
I am writing this from my corner of our motor home. My traveling companion and life partner, the man I married 45 years ago — perhaps in haste — sits in the opposite corner of the RV glaring daggers at me. I don’t know if he’s snapping the paper because...
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Getting to the tooth of the matter
I have experienced intense pain twice when I delivered babies and once when the top of a pop-up camper fell on my head. But none of the above prepared me for what happened one perfect day in February a few years back. The weather was warm and balmy, I had...
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From the Slow Lane: We like it when it snows where you are
Exactly what do snowbirds do, you may be wondering, while we are temporarily displaced for the winter? Some people spend their time on the golf course, playing tennis or riding bikes. Others jog or take walks. Basically we do the exact same things summer people do on Shelter Island, except in...
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From the Slow Lane: Got a pulse? Then shuddup, why don’tcha?
Here we are, for the eighth winter in a row, surrounded by a couple hundred other snowbird RVers — mostly retired military people living in motor homes — waiting out the winter parked in a campground that’s actually just a big field on a Navy base in Key West. We get...
