05.15.2026 Featured Story Codger’s Column: Feed me Codger still feels buoyed, weeks after seeing “Little Shop of Horrors.” What a show. Not only was it terrific as sheer entertainment, but it also made the case yet...
05.10.2026 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: Travel tips Do we travel just so we can come home again? This question seemed to be answered in the affirmative by the faces my traveling companion (MTC) and I looked...
05.09.2026 Featured Story Lessons from our mothers What is something your mother taught you that still guides your life today? Yessica Chacón: My mother taught me to always do good, no matter what others do, and...
05.09.2026 Featured Story A new era for the U.S. Men’s Soccer Team There are moments in sports that feel distant. Something you watch from across the world, at odd hours, through highlights and headlines. Then, there are moments that land right...
05.08.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: But not for me I believe this column will be about the emptiness of my receiving daily over a hundred ‘missives’ addressed to me — via texts, e-mails, snail mail — but clearly...
05.02.2026 Uncategorized What is that? May 2, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Roger McKeon was on the money, recognizing last week’s photo (see below) as, “The new...
04.29.2026 Featured Story Gone Fishing: Patience is part of the game This April has brought the slowest start to the spring fishing season in years, as winter just can’t seem to let go. By late April, the waters around Shelter...
04.25.2026 Featured Story Where In the World Is the Shelter Island Reporter: April 26, 2026 Sara Gordon and Peter Vielbig brought the Reporter on a visit to granddaughter Charlotte Del Col — instigator of the Annual Turkey Plunge fundraiser for our library, and now...
04.25.2026 Uncategorized How did your experience at Shelter Island School shape who you are today? P. J. Lechmanski, Class of 2003, West Neck I spent a short time in a much larger school. Returning to Shelter Island made all the difference. In that close...
04.19.2026 Feature Story Joanne Sherman: Pant and Water I was summoned to the kitchen window. “Look there, in the middle of the yard. I think your Miracle Tree has finally started to grow.” Oh, no. I wasn’t...
04.19.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: April 19, 2026 If it’s April, it’s “Poetry Month,” and I can hear the sighs and tacit “So whats?” already. So what? Well, I’ll tell you. Three years ago this month, I...
04.18.2026 Featured Story What is that? April 18, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Islanders are eager for summer days at the beach, judging from the great response to...
04.14.2026 Featured Story Gone Fishing: Opening the season Here’s the debut of our new fishing column: Henry Cruise, proprietor. This time of year, as rising spring temperatures slowly force back the last vestiges of winter’s chill, the...
04.13.2026 Uncategorized Nancy Green’s column: Having a pet If you’ve never owned one you can’t fully understand. But once they are brought into your home and life, they are yours to love. One could say, of course,...
04.12.2026 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: More than a game There are only two unassailable certainties in life, and they’re not that nonsense about death and taxes. I, and everyone I love, will never die, and neither will Ted...
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