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Editorial
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Editorial: Saving the manor
Sylvester Manor’s preservation is so important to Shelter Island’s future that any hint of a bump in the road is news. It was just a little disturbing to learn from Supervisor Jim Dougherty last week that Sylvester relatives in Pennsylvania had complicated a title search that is necessary to close two...
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Editorial: Smooth transition
Shelter Island has relied on the devotion, dedication and skill of its local all-volunteer ambulance corps for generations. They have trained, stood by and responded at all hours of the day and night to help Islanders in distress. Nothing has changed about that. The same good people still stand ready to...
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Editorial: A team of our own
College-level baseball is coming to Shelter Island this June, thanks to the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League and the Shelter Island School District. The School Board agreed to let the team use its high school diamond in exchange for improvements the league has promised to make to the infield. Hooray for Little...
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Editorial: Pools and the rules
The case of the Chequit now pending before the Zoning Board of Appeals looks likely to become the perfect example of why businesses in residential zones have nothing to fear from public concern and oversight when they seek to expand. There’s no question that putting in a pool constitutes an expansion...
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Editorial: Requiring surveys
Without a broader perspective, it may seem unsurprising, if not a little dull, that the Zoning Board of Appeals is talking about requiring applications for variances to include surveys to show exactly what setbacks will be needed if an addition, a pool, a garage or any other proposed structure were...
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Editorial: Great work
A collegial, always-compromising approach is useful, up to a point. But sooner or later, when it comes to complex, controversial proposals that aren’t perfect and never will be, somebody’s got to stand up and take a position. With Councilwoman Chris Lewis leading the way, the Town Board finally did just...
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Editorial: Ready for action
Will the Town Board’s proposed regulations to control development on the causeway fly this time? That’s the big question for tomorrow, Friday, December 2, when the board holds a hearing at about 5 p.m. on a set of revised rules drafted with the help of concerned residents over the summer. When...
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Editorial: Permeable driveways
Another hearing on the board’s heavy agenda for Friday afternoon is a proposed amendment to the Near Shore Overlay Protection District rules to allow impermeable driveways as long as storm-water runoff is captured and directed back into the aquifer. The most significant change in the proposed legislation since it came up...
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Editorial: The Island speaks
Supervisor Jim Dougherty deserves congratulations for his win in the supervisor race and the town Democratic Committee deserves credit for doing a great job reaching out to absentee voters this fall, banking on a majority of them to turn the tide if things did not go so well for the...
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Editorial: Home run
The pitch that three officials of Hamptons Collegiate Baseball threw the Shelter Island School Board Monday night was juicy and tempting — a meatball right up the middle. If the board had been in a swinging mood, it could have knocked it right out of the library. Instead the board,...
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Editorial: Election Day
At election time, this community breaks apart for a little while. We find out what our differences are in the tallies that come out of the voting machines and go on to the Board of Elections and up on the blackboards at the various election night headquarters. Some people like so-and-so....
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Editorial: The Reporter endorses…
Waddington for supervisor The choice for supervisor this year is, in some ways, a tough one. Three men with qualities and qualifications that commend each of them want the job. The best choice is Glenn Waddington, an experienced, thoughtful and even-handed councilman who has demonstrated over many years that he is dedicated...
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Editorial: Council terms
Shelter Island voters must remember to turn over their paper ballots when they vote on November 8 at the school. That’s where they’ll find a proposition asking them to vote “Yes” or “No” on changing the term of councilpersons from four years to two. A “Yes” vote means let’s cut...
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Editorial: Time to get tough
Guess when Shelter Island Chief of Police Jim Read wrote this plea: “Many homes do not display their street address or the owners assume that the police know where you live. This poses a problem during times of emergency, as vital minutes can be lost while trying to locate the proper...
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Editorial: Budget oddities
The preliminary budget presented to the Town Board by Supervisor Jim Dougherty last week raised some questions that have nothing to do with the politics of the election season but with the process of preparing a realistic budget. He said his spending plan called for a 1.2 percent increase in expenditures,...
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Editorial: Plant & Sing
There is a very big party coming up this weekend to celebrate and support Sylvester Manor. Called “Plant & Sing,” it’s the Sylvester Manor Educational Farm’s fourth annual arts and food festival with all sorts of activities, musical and dramatic entertainment, talks, walks, readings, not to mention food, spread over...
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Editorial: Lost in the shuffle
There are many ins and outs, and many questions, in the long story of the notorious fence that waterfront property owner Vincent Testa built years ago on his property, across a neighborhood right of way to the beach at West Neck Harbor. One thing is clear: in negotiating a deal with...
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Editorial: Make the decision
Does the Town of Shelter Island believe that businesses that don’t conform to their residential zoning should be allowed to gradually disappear? That’s the essential question that must be answered before a committee appointed by the supervisor can recommend, or the Town Board can adopt revised language to clarify the zoning...
