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School car wash canceled
May 24, 2013
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May 20, 2013
Obituaries
Obituary: Reporter staffer David Lee Draper
May 20, 2013
Obituaries: Draper, Rodgers
March 7, 2013
Real Estate
ZBA: Both yes and no on controversial house
May 23, 2013
High end real estate deals escalate
May 1, 2013
Opinion
Gimme Shelter: The baby of the family
May 24, 2013
This week's letters to the editor
May 24, 2013
Letters
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This week’s letters to the editor
To the Editor: I read the article in the May 16 edition of the Reporter about the paper gobbler coming to town (“Staying Hungry”). I am certain we all have many, many pages of written texts that have accumulated over the years, some perhaps we’d rather not acknowledge. This was a very good...
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Statement from Governor’s office on new utility for L.I.
Dear Fellow New Yorker, In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, the Governor established the Moreland Commission to investigate utility companies’ storm preparation and response efforts, including the Long Island Power Authority. The Commission found that in addition to LIPA’s failure to perform during the storm, the organization’s structural dysfunction was responsible...
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Letters to the Editor
To the Editor: As you may know, Superstorm Sandy knocked out one of LIPA’s two distribution cables from the North Fork. Shelter Island essentially depends on these cables for our electrical service. (There is a cable from the South Fork but it has very limited capability.) This presents very severe challenges...
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This week’s letters to the editor
To the Editor: In Town Hall one often hears of “the common good”, a phrase whose meaning is diluted in proportion to its frequency of use. Life is experienced on the individual level. It is those individuals who make up communities, yes, but no group “feels” anything that does not come...
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Dougherty to Passionists: Bless you, fathers
To the Editor: All Islanders joined in mourning the closing of the Passionists Fathers Youth Ministry at St. Gabriel’s in 2009. Under the able leadership of Father Bob Joerger and his colleagues, they did marvelous work for our youth throughout the region (over 70,000 teenagers benefited from the youth retreats at...
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Letters to the Editor: Readers sound off on ‘dark skies’
To the Editor: As spring mating season approaches I again would like to thank Jean Lawless for her tireless efforts protecting the piping plovers. Each year we give up a little of our personal freedom so these endangered birds have a quiet safe nesting area at our local beaches. This is...
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Letter to the Editor: Dougherty’s plan for ‘quiet skies’
To the Editor: The 2013 helicopter season is fast approaching. Last year Shelter Island fared well regarding helicopter noise with the two routes to East Hampton Airport I helped negotiate — half the flights via a southern route over Georgica Pond and the balance via a northern route veering south east...
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Featured Letter: On dark skies
To the Editor: I probably have more landscape lighting than anyone else on the Island, yet I am in favor of certain guidelines. Since the installation of my extravagant night lighting six years ago, I have received nothing but compliments or the occasional request for advice. The secret lies in wattage. I...
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Featured letters: Readers weigh in on dark skies legislation
Dark times To the Editor: “Like it or not, Shelter Island is part of a free country....” Like it or not? This was part of Councilwoman Chris Lewis’s reintroduction to her proposed dark skies legislation during the March 19 work session. The reasons given for this new legislation are that a few people...
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Featured letter: Shedding light on dark sky laws
To the Editor: Shelter Island dark skies — lemmings heading for the cliff (see "New light on dark skies," March 21). Just what we need, more government up our butts. More idiot laws to harass the citizenry. More government employees on the taxpayer dole to enforce them. Don’t fool yourselves, tax paying...
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Letters to the editor
To the Editor: There are close to 300 acres of land on a recent list of prospective open space purchases/easements/development rights candidates prepared by the Community Preservation Fund Advisory Board. They are in addition to the substantial acreage already protected as open space in various ways all over the Island. In a...
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Featured letter to the edtior: The gift of life
To the Editor: On behalf of the board of directors of the Island Gift Of Life, I would like to extend our thanks to the community for their overwhelming support of the Cheryl Hannabury Memorial Community Cocktail party held a the Ram's Head Inn Saturday, March 2. In addition, my thanks goes...
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Featured letter: No boundaries
To the Editor: As Anya DuVivier’s father I would like to add several comments to the wonderful article appearing in the Reporter’s issue of February 28 (“From Russia to Love.") http://shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com/2013/02/19108/from-russia-to-love-one-girls-long-journey-home-to-the-island/ When Anya left the orphanage hand-in-hand with her new mother she whispered in a heartfelt way, “I have been waiting for...
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Featured letters: Readers weigh in on preserving St. Gabe’s
To the Editor: I would like to thank Supervisor Dougherty for trying to find a way to preserve St. Gabriel’s. (See “Dougherty fights to save St. Gabe’s” in the February 28 Reporter.) I believe that whatever avenues can be explored to save this beautiful property should be investigated. The open fields, the...
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Featured letter: Councilman’s gripe with national USPS, not local post offices
To the Editor: In the past few weeks this paper has quoted me several times regarding mail/post office issues. I would like to set the record straight by stating that none of my gripes are with the local post offices or their employees. Quite the contrary. I am unqualified to comment on the...
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Featured Letter to the Editor: A postal solution
To the Editor: Like many other postal customers on Shelter Island, my mail has gone to Sag Harbor, Montauk, East Hampton or back to the sender with no explanation. Late charges on credit card bills that are not received in time are normal. Insurance policies are cancelled when statements are delivered...
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Featured letter: Winter storm Fred?
To the Editor: Nemo? What’s in a name? The Weather Channel, Inc. has decided to name winter storms. The National Weather Service, however, names only tropical storms and hurricanes. They do not name winter storms because of their erratic behavior as a weather system. In other words, the NWS has criteria that...
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Featured Letter: In our time of need
To the Editor: This expression of thanks cannot begin to adequately convey our gratitude to all of those on Shelter Island who have helped us in our time of need. The fire that erupted at the Belle Crest Inn the evening of Wednesday, February 6 could have ended in a very different...
