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School car wash canceled
May 24, 2013
Don’t forget to vote: Polls open until 9 p.m.
May 20, 2013
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Times/Review Newsgroup unveils Northforker.com
May 23, 2013
Paper gobbler set to roll into town Saturday
May 15, 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
Community
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Times/Review Newsgroup unveils Northforker.com
Times/Review Newsgroup unveiled today its northforker brand, focusing entirely on tourism, lifestyle and leisure content from the North Fork. Times/Review Newsgroup, parent company of The Shelter Island Reporter, unveiled today, Thursday, its “northforker” brand, focusing entirely on tourism, lifestyle and leisure content from the North Fork and Shelter Island. Northforker.com will be...
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Bucks seek housing: looking at alternatives and volunteers
With little more than two weeks to go before their opening game, Shelter Island Bucks organizers are hustling to secure necessary housing for about half the 25 players and two coaches who still have no place to stay during June and July. Hoping to answer community questions and perhaps secure a...
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Paper gobbler set to roll into town Saturday
The headliner for the show Saturday will be a voracious monster consuming two tons of what it feeds on every hour. It can take on 10,000 pounds without a pause. No, the Shelter Island Green Expo 2013 won’t be hosting an otherworldly competitive eater, but a world-class shredding machine. The Shred-Tech...
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Board of Ed presents its budget numbers
Shelter Islanders go to the polls Tuesday, May 21, with the fate of A proposed $10.047 million spending plan for school year 2013-14 in their hands. The administration, staff and Board of Education struggled this budget season to find cuts to stay within the state-imposed 2 percent tax levy increase without...
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Obituaries: Elmer August Kestler Jr., Lawrence William Sliker
Elmer August Kestler Jr. passed away on Friday, April 19, 2013. He was 88. Hundreds came to pay their respects both in Flushing, Queens and on Shelter Island. The Shelter Island American Legion provided honor guards, and the Freedom Riders paid tribute with a ceremony and provided him escort. He...
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This week in Shelter Island history
10 YEARS AGO Headlines for Island land deal in D.C. Post Whoever said any publicity is good publicity couldn’t have been thinking about the attention The Nature Conservancy and Jim Dougherty got from the Washington Post 10 years ago. In an effort to preserve additional land at the Mashomack Preserve, Mr. Dougherty, who...
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The Roaring Twenty-Tens
The junior and senior classes of the Shelter Island School showed some bling and no shortage of high spirits as they got ready to "Party with Jay Gatsby," as their T-shirts proclaimed. The occasion was tied to the juniors just finishing reading “The Great Gatsby.” Both classes are slated to attend the...
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Obituaries: William Bradford Bissell, William S. Drew
William Bradford Bissell Dr. William Bradford Bissell, of West Palm Beach, Florida and Shelter Island, passed away Sunday, April 28, 2013 after a brief illness of metatastic melanoma. He was the beloved husband of 44 years to Carmen Hoge Bissell. He was born in New York City in 1923 and attended Choate...
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Sylvester Manor: From slavery to current renaissance
This is Part II of a two-part series on Sylvester Manor that traces the fortunes of 15 generations of one family and how it parallels the history of Shelter Island and Northern slavery. Following the deaths of Nathaniel and Grizzell Sylvester, the first generation of the family to own the Manor,...
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This week in Shelter Island history
10 YEARS AGO Islanders fight call for limit on docks It was a hot and heavy time at Town Hall 10 years ago in a battle between boat owners and environmentalists over whether Shelter Island and other East End towns should limit dock construction to protect the health of Peconic Bay. Marine scientist...
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Chamber of Commerce report: Holding the fireworks display
The Piping Plover is a small sand-colored shorebird that nests and feeds along coastal sand and pebble beaches in North America. Its size is only about 6 inches, has a mass of less than 3 ounces, and is listed as an endangered species by the US Fish and Wildlife Service...
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Manor’s complex history captured in NYU exhibit
The history of Sylvester Manor — from the mid 1660s through to the present day — is so much more than the story of the fortunes of the family that has owned the land through 15 generations. It’s a reflection of the history of Shelter Island itself, of Northern slavery...
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‘Dessert Theatre’ Saturday at 7
The Shelter Island Presbyterian Church will host a one-woman musical show, “Coming of Age,” written and performed by Jenifer Corwin, this Saturday, April 20 at 7 p.m. This benefit will be for one performance only and dessert will be served. Ms. Corwin formerly appeared in “Belle of Amherst” and “Love, Loss...
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This week in Shelter Island history
10 YEARS AGO School stage goes dark — temporarily After a protest from parents that “The Women” was an inappropriate play for the Shelter Island School drama club, weekend performances were cancelled back in 2003. Parents of two cast members pulled them from the cast with one father saying he wasn’t going...
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Have you seen this frog?
A new frog was recently discovered in a trash-infested phragmites wetland on Staten Island by doctoral student Jeremy Feinberg. Mr. Feinberg was searching for the southern leopard frog, once the most common frog on Long Island that has since disappeared. The southern leopard frog resembles the as-yet-unnamed frog in appearance,...
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Gardening with Galligan: No fun stuff yet, but soon …
Since the season is beginning, we should begin at the beginning, too. When I first began to garden, the Internet had not yet been invented, my sources of information were restricted to garden books and other gardeners. Garden books were, I thought, really annoying. The first chapters were always all...
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Ostby gifts Manor house and grounds
With the opening of the Sylvester Manor archives exhibit at New York University’s Bobst Library in New York City has come word that Eben Fiske Ostby, the manor’s owner, is donating the historic house and grounds to the nonprofit Sylvester Manor Educational Farm. Plans call for transferring the deed by...
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Review: Drama Club brings wit and energy to ‘Legally Blonde’
Ask almost any kid in the Shelter Island Drama Club why they are in the play, “Legally Blonde,” playing this weekend at the school, from the 12th grade veteran who has done the play every year for five years to the rookie seventh grader, they say the same thing: “Because...
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