03.24.2024 Around the Island Just Saying: A fan(atic’s) notes Thursday is Opening Day for Major League Baseball. If you are a mildly rabid fan, like me, the days after the World Series are rather gloomy. Opening Day seems...
03.23.2024 Around the Island What is that? March 23, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week Roger McKeon, via email, and Tracy Miller, on our Facebook page, identified the...
03.23.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Technology pathology Am I the only one who has ever found themselves crying tears of frustration in front of a computer? It’s become a comical meme, really — old person flummoxed...
03.21.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Bail-reform battle My first beat as a reporter at the daily Long Island Press was covering cops-and-courts in Suffolk County. Back then, the bail issue was a vexing one in Suffolk,...
03.20.2024 Columns Shelter Islander chronicles an adventure at sea In the early morning hours, there were more than a few times I thought the boat might break apart. The sound of the flat-bottomed boat crashing into the waves...
03.17.2024 Around the Island Joanne Sherman’s Column: It’s in the book Our library has asked people to visit the downstairs book sale room in preparation for new construction. All those books were donated by generous Islanders who not only gave...
03.16.2024 Around the Island Where is that? March 16, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week’s mystery photo (see bottom right) was no mystery to several people who called...
03.13.2024 Around the Island Column: Remembering Faye I knew her a little bit in Los Angeles when I was in low middle management in Metro at the L.A. Times. She had been hired away from The...
03.11.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: County getting serious about water Environmentalist John Turner calls them “13 magic words.” They are 13 words that have been added to a measure likely to be voted on in a countywide referendum in...
03.11.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Journal: Shelter Island Golden Girl I was planning to write a column called Technology Pathology, a screed about technology systematically separating us from the world we’re trying to live in, forcing us into interacting...
03.05.2024 Around the Island Citrus Island? Greetings from Florida, where I’ve been enjoying warm weather and citrus fruit, and thinking of home. Have you ever wondered why lemons are not grown on Shelter Island? The...
03.01.2024 Around the Island What is that? March 1, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. No one guessed the identity of last week’s photo (see below) — the sweet creamy...
02.27.2024 Columns Baseball is back, with changes for the good and the bad This story appeared in a different form in February of 2021. I’m deep into the madness that is March and it’s still February. I’m amazed multiple times, lying on...
02.26.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Feb. 26, 2024 Discontinued. One of the most hated words in the English language. Who among us has not suffered the sudden shock, disbelief, and eventual despair of learning that a favorite...
02.21.2024 Around the Island A new Shelter Island Reporter column from Joanne Sherman At this moment, a bossy rooster is camped right outside my door at the military RV park where we spend the winter in Key West. This colorful strutter is...