10.14.2025 Featured Story View from the bridge: Reflections on capitalism and community change One of the most valuable aspects of sitting at the helm is the opportunity to reflect on a multitude of topics while quietly passage-making. Recently, my thoughts have turned...
10.08.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: It’s complicated Back in the 50’s — ‘simpler times,’ or so they seemed — on Friday evenings in summer, around 8:30 or so, when night finally overcame the stubborn remnants of...
10.06.2025 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: Nazis of Long Island “Nazis of Long Island: Sedition: Espionage & The Plot Against America,” a book authored by Christopher Verga, a professor at Suffolk County Community College of courses in History of...
10.05.2025 Featured Story Civility in a non-civil world Our young granddaughters are constantly hearing us remind them to say “Please” and “Thank you.” These are basic manners that everyone I know would agree with. I also think...
09.27.2025 Featured Story Moving Forward: Civility in a non-civil world Our young granddaughters are constantly hearing us remind them to say “Please” and “Thank you.” These are basic manners that everyone I know would agree with. I also think...
09.23.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Mystery Season Fall is now a day old , and though it brings football, and tailgate parties and the convivial abundance of Thanksgiving, it seems to me that autumn is really...
09.23.2025 Featured Story School fundraiser at Shelter Island’s Goat Hill For the second time this season, Shelter Island Country Club (SICC) welcomed golfers to Goat Hill for a school fundraising outing, this one in support of the Class of...
09.21.2025 Featured Story Joanne Sherman: Tales out of (Sunday) school Author’s note: Names have been changed to protect the innocent who are now fully grown and walk among us. “This isn’t going to end well,” I was warned by...
09.14.2025 Featured Story View From the Bridge: How government should work My professional life has been spent as an engineer, elected official, and merchant marine deck officer. Only rarely have political reflections occupied my thoughts, but lately I find myself...
09.13.2025 Featured Story Codger: Sing louder Codger had been feeling paranoid lately for imagining that the government was coming after him. It’s not as if he actually had dealings with those teen-aged DOGES or the...
09.07.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Friday Night Dialogue: Our East End ospreys On Friday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m., join Jennifer Skilbred, assistant director of Environmental Education at The Group for the East End, as she talks about the magnificent ospreys...
09.07.2025 Featured Story Suffolk Close Up: County Legislature is a pipeline to other posts There’ll be a question for voters on the election ballot in November on whether the terms should be extended from the present two years to four for the 18...
09.06.2025 Featured Story Flowing into a New Season with Suzette We are women of many hats. Business owner. Teacher. Partner. Friend. Daughter. Parent. Planner of meals, schedules, and dreams. Some days, it feels like we change hats faster than...
09.01.2025 Featured Story Where in the World is the Shelter Island Reporter? Seen in Seattle David Klenawicus Jr. brought a copy of the Reporter to Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle, Washington, a stop on his cross-country travels on Amtrak with his mother, Kathryn.
09.01.2025 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: Working for a living Labor Day, America’s end-of-summer celebration, lost its original meaning long ago. The first Monday in September was earmarked Labor Day as an election-year appeasement by President Grover Cleveland. During...
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