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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 Tom Hashagen:
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Slice of Life: Nobody bothered to ask me … but
As Designated Historian and Poet Laureate of the Shelter Island Bridge and Tunnel Authority, I am hereby authorized to express SIBTA’s deep shock and humiliation at not being at least...
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Column: Dinghys, dogs and why did I buy the damn thing?
The dog ate my dinghy. That’s why this year, in order to get out to the boat I will have to rehab a shaky fiberglass model that may or may not...
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Column: Where does the music go?
You can really tell when you’ve lived in one place for a long time when you start replacing things you thought would last either the house’s lifetime or your lifetime...
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Driving on Long Island: One man’s odyssey
I have now been driving a hybrid vehicle for a little over two years, and I have discovered some things. In some ways they are similar to ordinary cars and in...
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From Tom’s Table: Going for the gold
Before beef became a luxury item, we would have it in our house maybe once a week. If we manage once a week nowadays, it’s usually hamburger. Even skirt steak, which...
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Slice of Life: Wind, tide and an Island at starboard
Lucy likes to go around the island. In the kitchen. Our 13-month-old granddaughter spends quite a bit of time circumnavigating the five-by-nine-foot island, opening cabinet doors and checking out the recycling bin. The island is also where she eats and watches everyone cook. In the short time she’s been visiting,...
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Column: Lulu’s night with grandpa; ‘No worries!’
There is probably not one square yard of our kitchen floor or dining deck that doesn’t have a squashed grape or a Cheerio on it. Cabinet doors and low level drawers have been opened and disemboweled. The yard is adorned with a new swing from the locust branch, a climbing...
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Column: Curing my boredom with a project can have side effects
I don’t do “nothing” very well. I get crabby when I don’t have some kind of project to do. Every morning I spend some quiet time as I watch the bees busy at the flowers and the birds emptying the feeders and I am soon inspired to get going myself. My...
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Column: Danger zones add some spice to Island life
Here’s a question that the “Street Talk” person could ask for a future issue of this publication: “What do you think is the most dangerous road on Shelter Island?” Could it be Manwaring Road, where evil drivers, hoping to knock maybe five seconds off their route to South Ferry by avoiding the...
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Column: It felt like the big leagues in our small town
In my humble and usually misguided opinion, the logo for the Shelter Island Bucks is missing just one item. I think that a piece of a grille from an F-150 pickup truck should adorn one of the antlers. But let’s not let that serious omission take anything from the moment....
