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Sports
School Athletic Hall of Fame inductees honored
December 4, 2013
3-on-3 tournament tipping off Saturday at school gym
November 27, 2013
Volleyball alums making big hits on collegiate circuit
November 22, 2013
Education
Reporter editorial: Time to rethink Common Core Standards
December 4, 2013
School Athletic Hall of Fame inductees honored
December 4, 2013
Honoring an irreplaceable Island teacher and friend
December 3, 2013
Business
IGA open Thursday for last minute holiday needs
November 27, 2013
North Ferry, Greenport considering rerouting access to boats
November 1, 2013
Northforker: East End on display at MacArthur Airport
October 11, 2013
Community
A look back: This week in Shelter Island history
December 6, 2013
It's beginning to look a lot like ...
December 5, 2013
School Athletic Hall of Fame inductees honored
December 4, 2013
Obituaries
Reporter obituaries: Grimbol, Jahrsdoerfer
October 26, 2013
Reporter obituaries: Terence Cunniffe, Elizabeth Rowland
October 4, 2013
This week's Shelter Island obituaries
August 26, 2013
Real Estate
Town to refund 2 percent tax money paid in error
August 28, 2013
Preservation fund spikes dramatically
August 2, 2013
Opinion
Thanksgiving leftovers: The secret tapes
December 7, 2013
Read the Reporter Letters to the Editor for the week
December 5, 2013
Reporter editorial: Time to rethink Common Core Standards
December 4, 2013
Spotlight
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It’s beginning to look a lot like …
An Island tradition for decades, the Shelter Island Chamber of Commerce hosted the annual Christmas tree lighting on Wednesday evening in front of the police station, with caroling led by Santa. For the past several seasons, Tom Damiani has volunteered his voice along with his equipment. Afterward the spirited caroling, everyone...
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School Athletic Hall of Fame inductees honored
Ten individuals and four teams were inducted into the Shelter Island School Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday evening, November 29. On a night dedicated to sports for a capacity crowd of more than 250 people in the school’s auditorium, there were memories brought to life of great games in the...
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Honoring an irreplaceable Island teacher and friend
“If I had to eulogize John Boylan in church, I’d have nothing to say. And it’s a good thing the little kid just left the room,” Andrew Payne said as he spoke about his tutor and friend to a group of over 50 people at the Ram’s Head Inn on...
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Penelope’s Kitchen: Venison tenderloin
A friend of ours on the North Fork, who lives almost entirely off the land and water, gave us a beautiful venison tenderloin. Low in cholesterol and fat, venison contains nutrients that are beneficial. When I first moved to Shelter Island, I told a local hunter and bayman that I was...
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Shelter Island Running Club has high hopes
Half an hour after school was out, kids were crowding on to the equipment in the play area behind the building while others played tag on the wide green field. But one 11-year-old girl wasn’t playing. She was running alone, making laps of the field, head up, back straight, eyes...
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The Plunge: Coming to a beach near you
The Friends of the Shelter Island Public Library will be hosting the Turkey Plunge, rain, snow or shine, on Saturday, November 30 at 11 a.m. at Crescent Beach. All plungers are welcome and wetsuits are acceptable, maybe even preferable. Toes, ankles, knees, waist or full immersion — your choice! Check-in will...
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Talking turkey: Number of Island birds on the rise
One bird slowly strutted around the sheep pen at Sylvester Manor on a drizzly morning last week. Another sat trying to bury its long neck deeper into its feathers. The only other resident of the pen was an ill-tempered and very vocal ram, pacing, out of sorts because he had been...
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Island profile: The Smith brothers getting busy in business
Talk to Ben and Derrick Smith and their dad Bill about their two businesses — Mildew Busters and East End Waterproofing — and at times three cheerful, enthusiastic people are answering your questions all at once as two big Chesapeake retrievers wag at their feet. Their two businesses recently won annual...
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Midnight musings: The problem with Thanksgiving
I don’t like Thanksgiving. Not for the obvious reasons, like how much shopping and cooking you do and then are too tired to eat. My dislike of Thanksgiving goes back to the days of being a kid in a big family. For all major holidays, we’d go to my cousins’ house...
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Profile: Helen Rosenblum, a passion for the law and service
Helen Rosenblum’s father, a lawyer who worked in the U.S. attorney’s office for many years before starting his own firm, didn’t want her to follow in his footsteps. “He didn’t believe in woman lawyers,” she explained the other day, “not because he didn’t believe in their abilities” but because they were...
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A Shelter Island Veterans Day ceremony
A chilly wind blew as close to 75 members of the community attended the Veterans Day ceremony at American Legion’s Mitchell Post 281 this morning. Dave Clark, 1rst vice commander, led the ceremony, in lieu of Commander Mike Loriz, and explained to the Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts and Daisy Scouts how...
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The day the war came to West Neck Road
This morning Carl Sabal will travel 30 miles north from his home in Ephrata, Pennsylvania to the town of Lebanon for an annual Veterans Day breakfast. The 77-year-old Harelegger, born on West Neck Road in a house “down in the hollow,” will remember men he served with in the Third Army...
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Island profile: Dr. John Cosgrove, now a full-time Islander
Dr. John M. Cosgrove, Eastern Long Island Hospital’s first full-time surgeon, has made the Island his full-time residence, and the change is just what the doctor ordered. Visitors welcomed into the Cosgrove’s New York Avenue home are offered a tour of the late 18th century house. Up the narrow stairs are...
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Invasive mile-a-minute vine might have met its match
No one is celebrating yet, but the war on the mile-a-minute vine has been joined. There’s reason to hope that over the course of several years, the invasive plant could be eradicated, according to Cornell Cooperative Extension scientist Dr. Andy Senesac. The mile-a-minute vine has a predator in the form of the...
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Profile: Hans Schmid, from Germany to Shelter Island
Everybody knows Hans Schmid, the inveterate biker, bowler and baker’s son who has been taking care of the roads and everything else that has needed maintenance, repair and tinkering in Shelter Island Heights for 30 years. But younger Islanders, and other more recent arrivals, probably have no idea Hans was born...
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Tracking the ghosts of Sylvester Manor
She had just started working at Sylvester Manor as a housekeeper, now almost 40 years ago, when Rose Wissemann came in touch with something one afternoon that still haunts her. Known as “Miss Rose,” or, according to Maura Doyle, historic preservation coordinator for Sylvester Manor, “the soul of this house,” Rose...
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Island girls go 12-0 as league champs
Last night the Shelter Island girls volleyball team defeated the Bishop McGann-Mercy Monarchs 25-18, 25-17, 25-18 to finish their 2013 league competition and put the exclamation point on their season. The team ended with an unblemished 12-0 record marking their fifth consecutive undefeated League VIII championship. The varsity team will now...
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No disputes: Town Board hopefuls agree on almost everything
Those looking for a vigorous debate of the issues facing Shelter Island didn’t find it at Sunday afternoon’s candidate forum. The three candidates for two Town Board seats were in almost total agreement at the forum held in the school auditorium. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Shelter Island...
