08.02.2026 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: American Fried Have you noticed the strange way some girls and young women have been talking for the last several years? It’s not what they’re saying, but the way they say...
07.28.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Timing Bad timing, good timing: everyone over the age of six knows — from experience, mind you — that, as Bobby Burns points out, “The best laid plans of mice...
07.26.2026 Featured Story Guest Column: Legal realities behind 8647 inquiries The recent visit by the Secret Service to the homes of certain residents of eastern Long Island raises troubling questions. All people residing in the United States should be...
07.26.2026 Featured Story Column: New York was wrong on 4-poster policy A “roadblock” is what veteran Suffolk County journalist Peter Boody, a former reporter and editor, and now a public official, calls the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s...
07.19.2026 Featured Story Moving forward: The joys and stress of summer guests When I was a kid visiting my aunt and uncle in Southold, they had a sign in the guest room that said, “Guests and Fish stink after three days.” ...
07.18.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Idioms’ delight As I finish up this column, hope you’re “all ears,” because this comes “straight from the horse’s mouth:” Nobody...
07.14.2026 Featured Story Joanne Sherman’s column: Hissers, dingers and bongers Have you seen the handwritten sign at the Center post office? “Please ring bell,” the sign says, with a...
06.22.2026 Uncategorized Moving Forward column: Greed Madonna’s 1985 anthem “Material Girl” looks very quaint in 2026. As she sang that “the boy with the cold...
06.21.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Voices on Father’s Day 2026 What is the most important lesson your father taught you and what memory of your father still makes you smile? PETER WALDNER My father never stopped learning, growing, and...
06.21.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Midsummer madness Today, Sunday, June 21, at 4:24 a.m., marked the summer solstice, that moment when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, resulting in the maximum amount...
06.14.2026 Featured Story Joanne Sherman’s column: You didn’t ask, but… Congratulations to the class of 2026. Not counting pre-K, you’ve been in school for 13 years — 72.2% of your entire life. WOW! That’s a lot of learning. Some...
06.13.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Photo Quiz: What is that? June 13, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Regina Hartley was happy to respond to last week’s photo ID question (see below): “It’s...
06.10.2026 Uncategorized Union Chapel opens this Sunday, June 14: Homecoming/Heights Memorial service Everyone is welcome to the first service of the Union’s Chapel summer season on Sunday, June 14, at 10:30 a.m. Homecoming/Heights Memorial Sunday is a tradition, as is our...
06.08.2026 Featured Story Codger’s column: A talent show If Shelter Island ever decided to stage a talent show with world-class resident headliners, it might go something like this, according to Codger: Friday night, a superb concert by...
06.07.2026 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: John Steinbeck’s House Suffolk County has been the home of many literary giants, including Walt Whitman, James Fenimore Cooper, Kurt Vonnegut, James Jones, Truman Capote, Betty Friedan, Edward Albee, E.L. Doctorow, Joseph...
06.06.2026 Featured Story D-Day, and the baby of the family He was the man I never knew, the man who gave me my name. He was brought closer to me through a phone call I got one afternoon. An...
06.06.2026 Featured Story What is that? June 6, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Ed Hydeman wrote to us giving the correct location of last week’s mystery photo (see...
06.03.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: Of thee we sing A week ago today a surprising, heartwarming number of visitors and residents showed up under a canopy of gray, dripping clouds, braving the persistent drizzle to honor Memorial Day....
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