04.29.2024 Around the Island Shelter Island By the Numbers: April 29, 2024 3.59 Percent more in state aid will reach the Shelter Island School District for the 2024-25 school year compared with state aid received for the current school year 1-2...
04.28.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: What are you eating? It’s fitting that Suffolk County, with some of the richest soil in the world and still on the New York State’s list of its top agricultural counties (number 4...
04.27.2024 Around the Island What is that? April 27, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week’s photo (see below right) recalled one of the Island’s greatest athletes and a...
04.26.2024 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: Do you know what time it is? I’m one of those people who is never on time. No, not late. I’m always early. Reaching my destination, I have to walk around blocks, drive in circles, drink...
04.21.2024 Around the Island Joanne Sherman’s column: Estate planning The woman stares into the camera, tears glistening. Mom and Dad had passed and left her their home. But that isn’t why she’s crying. No, it’s because before they...
04.20.2024 Around the Island What is that? April 20, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Roger McKeon was on last week’s mystery photo (see right) with a hop, skip and...
04.14.2024 Columns Codger’s column: What’s the deal? Everywhere Codger goes these days, from a power lunch at The Islander to a Friends of Music concert to another summit confab of the Senior Citizens Foundation, he hears...
04.13.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Contaminated Plum Can Plum Island, the 843-acre island, a mile-and-a half off Orient Point, be safely preserved as a “national monument” with public access, as is being advocated by a grouping...
04.13.2024 Around the Island What is that? April 13, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week’s photo of the door to the History Center on South Ferry Road (see...
04.08.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Table manners When I was little, my brother and I ate our “supper” at the kitchen table around 6 o’clock every evening. It made sense. My mother didn’t get home until...
04.07.2024 Around the Island Charity’s Column: Looking ahead A few weeks ago, I changed the only two clocks in the house that still wait for me to spring them forward, enjoyed a brief shot of warm, sunny...
04.03.2024 Around the Island Moving Forward column: The dangers of ‘splitting’ “You’re horrible. I hate you!” says the four-year-old to his mother. As he says this, he can’t think of anything good about the parent who just denied him a...
03.30.2024 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: Easter connections, March 30, 2024 I must have been about 10, when a few days before Ash Wednesday, my mother asked me what I was planning to give up for Lent. Faking a thoughtful...
03.24.2024 Around the Island Just Saying: A fan(atic’s) notes Thursday is Opening Day for Major League Baseball. If you are a mildly rabid fan, like me, the days after the World Series are rather gloomy. Opening Day seems...
03.23.2024 Around the Island What is that? March 23, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week Roger McKeon, via email, and Tracy Miller, on our Facebook page, identified the...