12.18.2017 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Louis Washkansky, the first person to undergo a heart transplant, died 18 days later in Cape Town, South Africa, as a result of drugs...
11.13.2017 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Yastrzemski won the American League’s Most Valuable Player award. Surveyor 6 became the first man-made object to lift off...
11.01.2017 News Survey: Seven out of 10 respondents would welcome professional hunters If there is a single fact that emerges as a surprise from the recent survey conducted by the town’s Deer & Tick Committee, it’s that 72 percent of respondents...
09.22.2017 Politics Incumbents seek new terms; Dougherty, Brach-Williams on why they’re running In a time of exodus from Town Hall, two incumbents are asking the voters to let them stay put.
08.18.2017 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Governing by polling How do you confront a problem that many of our elected officials have termed a “public health crisis” and, in an attempt to find a solution, have moved into...