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Sunset Beach asks for Bastille Day party permit
June 19, 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
Editorial
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Our view: The fire next time
What defines courage and commitment? Courage, often described as grace under pressure, is also known as the first virtue, the one that makes all other virtues possible. Commitment is something we witness nearly every day — if we have eyes to see it — by those lending a hand to...
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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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Editorial: Finding common ground
Where and when does requiring certain lighting fixtures to ensure your neighbors don’t blind you at night become a discussion on human freedom denied? Or where and when does watering your lawn to the detriment of the water supply rob us all of our liberties to act as responsible people? If you’ve...
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Editorial: USPS response to mail concerns is not acceptable
“Ed,” a commenter on the Reporter’s website, had it about right: “The manager’s name is Godot and you can expect to hear back from him on Groundhog Day.” The snarky remark was a reaction to a report on a meeting at Town Hall with a United States Postal Service employee and...
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Editorial: Souring the debate
We live in a cynical age. The reasons that have made cynicism — or always believing the worst in people — the defining mood of the times are many. A look at American history over the past several decades can be blinding with glaring examples of misguided and hypocritical leaders, so...
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Editorial: The springing of the year
Two friends, bundled up against a cutting wind Monday afternoon, passed each other in the Center walking on either side of Route 114. “They say snow,” one called to the other, which caused the friend to put her hands over her ears and say, “Don’t say that word.” The weatherman’s prediction...
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Senior kitchen close to opening, but not quite cooking
In an are-you-kidding-me moment, the Reporter has learned the kitchen at Shelter Island’s Senior Activity Center is still not cleared to open. That’s the case, Public Works Commissioner Jay Card Jr. confirmed today, with the final go-ahead not yet approved by by the Suffolk County Department of Health Services. But he’s optimistic ...
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Endorsement: Al Krupski for County Legislature
Sean Walter has spent the better part of the past six weeks hammering home to residents on the East End that his is the type of voice they need in the Suffolk County Legislature, where he’s argued his opponent would be little more than an extra vote for the Democratic...
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Editorial: Knowing what’s true about Thanksgiving
What is the truth about Thanksgiving and what is the myth? Of course, there’s nothing more true than the truth, but the myth is also true, if you take the old, and, well, true meaning of the word. This parsing of language is appropriate as we celebrate the one national holiday that...
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Editorial: We’re all in this together
How many Libertarians does it take to change a light bulb? That’s easy. None. If the bulb needed changing, the invisible hand of the free market would have done it. That punch line has an extra sting considering the cruel drumbeat of day-after-day darkness many in the region have endured in the...
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Editorial: Sandy’s impact close to home
Only 80 or 90 miles from Shelter Island, there have been thousands of people struggling with Third World conditions: no homes, no heat, no power, food from relief handouts and only the clothes they wore or carried out when the tidal surge hit last Monday, October 29. It was quite another...
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Editorial: Saying thanks for a wonderful trip
“Fabulous, fantastic, amazing” were some of the words one Shelter Islander used to describe Saturday’s trip to Washington, D.C. for him and 23 other local veterans to see the war memorials erected in their honor around the Mall. They got the full treatment. It included a Town Police escort on the...
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Editorial: Giving credit where credit is due
There was not enough space here last week to elaborate on the remarkable commitment Suffolk County has made — despite a drumbeat of opposition from western Suffolk legislators — to the preservation of two parcels totalling about 83 acres at Sylvester Manor. Shelter Island’s longtime preservation champion, Supervisor Jim Dougherty,...
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Editorial: Sylvester Manor Plant & Sing a celebration of community
Shelter Islanders have embraced the Sylvester Manor Educational Farm as a vital community organization. That’s a conclusion any observer would be likely to reach after last Saturday’s fifth annual Plant & Sing festival. More than 120 people volunteered to help the Educational Farm manage the event, thanks to the recruiting efforts...
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Editorial: Let the town budgeting process begin
Even though the Town Board last week talked about voting to allow the state’s 2-percent tax cap to be pierced — just as a precaution — Supervisor Jim Dougherty on Friday submitted a tentative budget proposal to the town clerk that would barely change total spending for 2013. Up about...
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Editorial: Real changes needed on this runaway train
The decline of the Peconic Bay system as a healthy ecosystem is inevitable unless the definition of “business as usual” is changed by the state, the county and the operators of waste treatment systems. Currently 79 sewage treatment plants and 796 large commercial septic systems that have permits to operate in...
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Editorial: Forget chiggers, folks. Those are lone star larvae making you itch
Anecdotal evidence suggests there may be a surge in the population of lone star tick larvae in the region, including Shelter Island. People who walk through a cluster of these freshly hatched ticks won’t know it until they start to itch and find red welts all over themselves — and...
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Editorial: Reinventing the 4-poster
Take a look across the channel at North Haven, an island like this one, only smaller, if it weren’t for a neck of sand connecting it to Noyac via Long Beach. They have a big tick problem over there. Lyme disease and other illnesses are not uncommon and, lately, the larvae...
