10.18.2020 Government Officials: Lack of 4-posters and closed hunting sites pose deer problem Efforts to cull the deer herd on Shelter Island are limited this year by two major factors: • A New York State Department of Environmental Conservation mandate that the...
04.08.2019 News Burning up in smoke at Deer & Tick meeting A proposal to have the town begin burning open spaces for ticks was rejected by the Deer and Tick Committee at an April 3 meeting.
09.19.2018 News Hunters meet at Town Hall About a dozen hunters gathered in Town Hall last Tuesday night for a report from the town’s Deer and Tick Committee. Chairman Dr. Jim Bevilaqua opened the meeting and...
04.20.2018 Island Profiles Island Profile | Janalyn Travis-Messer, giving back and getting it done Janalyn Travis-Messer’s office is full of activity. She’s in the middle of building a house on the Island and as she bustles around her office/exhibition space for local artists,...
05.20.2016 Letters Shelter Island Letters to the Editor Hyperbolic To the Editor: In all the commotion that goes with front page headlines (“Councilman Shepherd fears future ‘indiscriminate slaughter,” May 12), it may have gotten lost that I...