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Meet the candidate video: Jay Card Jr. for highway superintendent
Jay Card Jr. talks about his background, his qualifications for becoming the Shelter Island Town highway superintendent and his ideas for the department in a Reporter video interview. He is the Democratic and Independence Party candidate for the post. Mr. Card is making his second run for the job now held...
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Meet the candidate video: Hap Bowditch for highway superintendent
Harry "Hap" Bowditch Jr., the Republican and Conservative party nominee for Shelter Island Highway Superintendent, talks about his reasons for running, his background and qualifications and his goals for the department. His opponent, Democratic and Independence candidate Jay Card Jr., is a native Shelter Islander like Mr. Bowditch. Check the Reporter...
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Slide show: Sylvester Manor’s ‘Plant & Sing’
There's more to come today, Sunday, at Sylvester Manor's three-day festival of music, literary arts and good food, highlighted by this evening's appearance of Rufus and Martha Wainright. Meanwhile, here are scenes from a few of Friday and Saturday's events photographed by the Reporter's Beverlea Walz. Plant and Sing is the fourth...
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Video: Meet Town Board candidate Dan Fokine
One of five candidates running for two seats on the Shelter Island Town Board, Democratic and Independence Party candidate Dan Fokine talks about the issues and his reasons for running in an interview recorded on the grounds of the Shelter Island Historical Society. Video interviews with all five candidates for Town...
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Video: Town Councilman Peter Reich seeking reelection
Town Councilman Peter Reich takes to the water to talk about his bid for a third term on the Shelter Island Town Board. He's the only current councilperson seeking reelection in a five-way race for two council seats. Separate videos have been posted of the three people running for town supervisor. ...
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Photos: Shelter Island Beach Blast
The sun, the sand, the cool breeze coming in off the open water ... and man, just listen to that band play. Welcome to the annual Shelter Island Beach Blast: Eastern Long Island's answer to the good old days of Frankie and Annette. Traditionally held the Saturday after Labor Day, the...
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Video: Meet Town Board candidate Paul Shepherd
Shelter Island Town Board candidate Paul Shepherd talks about his reasons for running, his qualifications and stands on some of the issues in an interview with the Reporter. Mr. Shepherd is running on the Conservative line and also petitioned for an independent slot on the Nov. 8 ballot as the candidate...
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Video: Meet Town Board candidate Will Anderson
Republican candidate for Shelter Island Town Board Will Anderson talks about his reasons for running, his background and qualifications and some of the issues in one of five council candidate videos to be posted by the Reporter this summer and fall. Two seats on the board are at stake in the...
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Waiting for a date with Irene
The Island was bustling at midday Saturday as everyone prepared for the arrival of Hurricane Irene tonight. The storm was churning up the coast from North Carolina and tropical storm-force winds were expected to lash the area by late tonight. Hurricane-force winds were possible on Sunday as the storm reaches Long...
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Ian Weslek: Meet the Town Board candidates video
Ian Weslek, one of five candidates for two seats at stake in this fall's elections, talks about the Island and his reasons for running in a video interview with the Shelter Island Reporter. Videos of the four other candidates will be posted in the coming weeks. Will Anderson is next. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mPPMGMTfok...
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Slide show: Kettlebake on Taylor’s Island
Beautiful weather held up through Saturday afternoon for the annual Taylor's Island Kettlebake fund-raiser. Participants were shuttled by launch out to the town-owned park and cabin for a meal of clam, corn and lobster, an auction and a raffle. Funds raised go to the restoration of the cabin. ...
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Slide show: Soon you can visit Bug Light again
A test run to make sure visitors will be able to safely reach Long Beach Bar “Bug” Lighthouse during Greenport’s Sept. 24-25 Maritime Festival was declared a success Saturday afternoon. Several members of the East End Seaport Museum and Marine Foundation Board of Directors took a trip aboard the Peconic Star...
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Photos: Gov. Carey’s service on Shelter Island
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Slide show: Island Spotlight — Wades beach
The Reporter this week begins a weekly summer photo feature that highlights favorite locales on the Island. Wades Beach, of course, is one of them. Perhaps the most family-oriented of all the Island’s public beaches, it’s the place to go for swimming lessons, which are offered there by the town’s...
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Video: Another Shelter Island 10K, another Ethiopian victory
African runners must like something about Shelter Island because they keep winning, posting quality times and dominating in the small island’s annual 10-kilometer road race. Kumsa Adugna, 25, of Ethiopia, who was the runner-up last year, was the winner this time around in the 32nd annual Shelter Island 10K Run on...
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VIDEO: Dougherty talks about serving as Shelter Island town supervisor
Shelter Island Town Supervisor Jim Dougherty talks about his work in office and his reasons for seeking a third two-year term this fall. A Democrat, he faces Republican Bob DeStefano and independent Glenn Waddington, whose "Meet the Candidate" videos were posted previously. Mr. Dougherty's interview with Shelter Island Reporter editor...
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Banshee Troop gets warm Island welcome
Check out our photos and video from the Banshee Troop visit to Shelter Island. Members of Banshee Troop, 1st Squadron, 71st Calvary Battalion of the 1st Brigade, 10th Mountain Division served with Shelter Island's Lt. Joseph Theinert who was killed in combat on June 4, 2010. ...
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VIDEO: Meet Town Supervisor candidate Glenn Waddington
Independent candidate for Shelter Island town supervisor Glenn Waddington talks to Shelter Island Reporter editor Peter Boody about his candidacy on May 13 in his Quaker Path backyard. A video interview with his Republican opponent Bob DeStefano was posted last week; soon the Reporter will post a talk with Supervisor...
