08.17.2023 Around the Island Dogs, and books and … Chuck? After trekking through the Island, the canine caravan has finally completed its journey indoors at the library. Director Terry Lucas and her staff welcomed the pooches, who have been...
08.04.2023 Around the Island Close call Whoa! Lifeguard brothers Cass and Finn Egan, shown above, calm a tense situation. Seems 92-year-old Leah Friedman was chased up the lifeguard stand at Wades Beach by Scraps, Woody...
08.01.2023 Around the Island Increase in Shelter Island dog population Something’s going on here that we’re determined to get to the bottom of — or not. Last week we spied Scraps the Dog sitting in the North Ferry line...
09.17.2022 Around the Island A home on the Island: Please don’t call them bees Past Labor Day, starting to ease into the direction of fall, we notice little indicators: those brisker morning walks and necessary sweatshirts in the evening. The earlier and more...
08.11.2019 Columns Room for one more? May Yi Courtney, top right, recording for posterity the attempt by Newsom, the Giant Box Turtle, to get on the porch and join her friends as they scramble away.