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Sports
More photos from the Shelter Island 10K
June 16, 2013
Education
This week in Shelter Island history
June 7, 2013
Business
Merchants, board look to lower speed on Bridge St.
June 17, 2013
Driveway settlement? Judge may impose decision
June 13, 2013
Community
Bausman steps down as Island Red Cross CEO
June 17, 2013
Obituaries
Obituary: Barbara Joy Roberts Carlsen
May 28, 2013
Obituary: Reporter staffer David Lee Draper
May 20, 2013
Real Estate
This week in Shelter Island history
May 30, 2013
Opinion
Letters to the Editor: Dark skies, pro and con
June 13, 2013
Letters to the Editor
June 11, 2013
Columns
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From Penelope’s kitchen: Pacaya Flowers and Yucca Blossoms
My friends Reina and Glenda, who are from Guatemala, introduced me to this delicious, easy to prepare dish, which can be served for lunch or dinner. Pacaya is the young blossom of a date palm tree and has a slightly bitter taste. The yucca aloe flowers are the delicate petals from...
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Eye on the Ball: Oh, the things I regret not saying
Well, it happened to me again — there I was, relaxed and enjoying a fresh cup of coffee one morning this week at one of my regular spots when a couple of first-time Shelter Island visitors decided to sit next to me. As I always do (according to my wife)...
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Midnight Musings: Job scare
It’s the time of year when high school and college students are starting their summer jobs, when you see their familiar faces everywhere you go: the Tuck Shop, the pharmacy, Jack’s Marine. I thought I’d share a few of my less-than-stellar moments in the working world. At 23, I was forced...
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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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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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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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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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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....
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Eye On The Ball: Alaska adventure for father and son
When most of us talk about vacations, such as going away with our children for a couple of weeks, we expect to hear about things like cruises, skiing, sailing, boating, golfing or even Disney. When Shelter Island’s Darrin Binder, 47, and his son Charlie, 17, talk about a vacation, well...
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Nature column: Leave time behind – visit a rock
It began with a child’s imagination triggered by naturally occurring recognizable shapes – no sculptor’s chisel necessary – inspiring awe and imbedded in the picture book of his mind. I should thank cartoon creators for using iconic figures of classic literature as premises for their productions. If not for them, Whale...
