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School car wash canceled
May 24, 2013
Don’t forget to vote: Polls open until 9 p.m.
May 20, 2013
Community
Times/Review Newsgroup unveils Northforker.com
May 23, 2013
Paper gobbler set to roll into town Saturday
May 15, 2013
Obituaries
Obituary: Reporter staffer David Lee Draper
May 20, 2013
Obituaries: Draper, Rodgers
March 7, 2013
Real Estate
ZBA: Both yes and no on controversial house
May 23, 2013
High end real estate deals escalate
May 1, 2013
Opinion
Gimme Shelter: The baby of the family
May 24, 2013
This week's letters to the editor
May 24, 2013
Opinion
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Gimme Shelter: 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 editor at the Washington Post, where I freelance occasionally, phoned to say a man who lived in the D.C. area had called...
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This week’s letters to the editor
To the Editor: I read the article in the May 16 edition of the Reporter about the paper gobbler coming to town (“Staying Hungry”). I am certain we all have many, many pages of written texts that have accumulated over the years, some perhaps we’d rather not acknowledge. This was a very good...
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Gardening with Galligan: Tulips, the lipstick of the garden
There is so much to say about tulips, it’s hard to know where to begin. So logically then, we should begin at the beginning, as in where did tulips come from? In fact, they have a dramatic history. They were found originally growing wild in Central Asia and were cultivated...
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Eye on the Ball: Writer Vecsey takes sports seriously
So far I have met three major sportswriters who call the Island home. And almost a fourth. Now, when I say major, I mean newspapers with large circulations. There’s Robert Lipsyte of the New York Times, Robert Lipsyte of the Washington Post and Peter Vecsey of the New York Daily News and...
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Column: When the IRS tried to muscle me
President Barack Obama got it right and wrong last week when he stated, “If you’ve got the IRS operating in anything less than a neutral and nonpartisan way, then that is outrageous, it is contrary to our traditions.” He was right in declaring it was “outrageous” for the IRS to target...
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Eye on the Ball: Honoring our greatest Island athletes
Do you know an outstanding athlete who graduated from Shelter Island High School and should be recognized by the school? If so, you must get in touch with the newly-formed Hall of Fame Committee. From me, finally a big “thank you” to the Islanders who are taking on the responsibility of...
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Inside Out: Lockdown? Not for me on Patriot’s Day
The ironies cascaded through my mind as I headed north to Lexington and Concord on April 19, the anniversary of the skirmishes in 1775 when “embattled farmers stood and fired the shot heard ‘round the world,” as Mr. Emerson put it. My wife thought I was crazy to make a detour...
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Statement from Governor’s office on new utility for L.I.
Dear Fellow New Yorker, In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, the Governor established the Moreland Commission to investigate utility companies’ storm preparation and response efforts, including the Long Island Power Authority. The Commission found that in addition to LIPA’s failure to perform during the storm, the organization’s structural dysfunction was responsible...
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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 consulted on the current LIPA cable project. SIBTA, being an organization with a long and checkered history of providing alternate...
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Gardening with Galligan: More lovely spring days
How glorious the weather has been! It’s easy to forget how beautiful spring is and for that matter how strange it would be to live without seasons. My son said when he was living in Los Angeles, that friends would call him on the phone intending to leave a message,...
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Letters to the Editor
To the Editor: As you may know, Superstorm Sandy knocked out one of LIPA’s two distribution cables from the North Fork. Shelter Island essentially depends on these cables for our electrical service. (There is a cable from the South Fork but it has very limited capability.) This presents very severe challenges...
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Editorials: Fighting choppers, the LIPA cable
It’s that time of year when we’re anticipating all the pleasures of summer, like long weekend afternoons lingering just a little longer at the beach before heading home to sit outside, welcoming peaceful dusks. Or, another summer scenario: We become extras in “Apocalypse Now” with helicopters blasting so close overhead you...
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Weekend Edition: Not four seasons, but six
I lived the ‘70s decade in Vermont, back when you could count on a week or so of sub-zero temperatures 24 hours a day. Improbably, my battered Volkswagen Beetle never failed to start, although a running board rusted off. In the morning, its pre-radial tires would freeze flat where they...
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Eye on the Ball: A peek into the past at Island heroes
Back in 1960, I made my first trip to Shelter Island as a 19-year-old assistant golf pro from Southampton Golf Club. Prior to the trip, I was told, “If you don’t know somebody on the Island, just say ‘Hello, Mr. Dickerson or Mr. Clark,’ and most likely you’ll be right.” Good...
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Gardening with Galligan
As I told you last week, I did indeed go to Westchester and meet “the daffodil conundrum” head on. Here’s the story. The clumps that the yard crew cut down were, indeed, as their chieftain said they would be, up and flowering. However, and it was a significant however, my daughter thought...
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Column: Paying dues
With the state Legislature upping the minimum wage from $7.25 an hour to $9, and fast food workers agitating for a union, it brought to mind my own experience scuffling at low paying jobs and the three union cards I carried. I’ve seen unions from three distinct angles – the...
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This week’s letters to the editor
To the Editor: In Town Hall one often hears of “the common good”, a phrase whose meaning is diluted in proportion to its frequency of use. Life is experienced on the individual level. It is those individuals who make up communities, yes, but no group “feels” anything that does not come...
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Gardening with Galligan: Daffodils, daffodils everywhere…
It’s that time of year when the Island turns yellow. Forsythia and daffodils are everywhere. We should offer thanks to those Islanders who do roadside plantings for all of us to enjoy. There’s a great example on the west side of North Cartwright Road, north of the Burns Road intersection....
