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Education
School car wash canceled
May 24, 2013
Don’t forget to vote: Polls open until 9 p.m.
May 20, 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
department of environmental conservation
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This week in Shelter Island history
10 YEARS AGO Sewage plant is on the table The Greenport Village Board back in March 2003 agreed to send a proposal to the Heights Property Owners Corporation for processing its sewage through the village system. Cameron Engineering was authorized to study the possibility of running a pipe under Greenport Harbor to...
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Hilo gets high five for dock extension
When members of the Hilo Shores Association sought to build a community dock about 15 years ago, the idea was rapidly embraced by town officials who viewed the concept as a means of avoiding some 40 individual docks jutting out into West Neck Bay. But now, while members of the Waterways...
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Raw wound: watch out when the state sticks its toe into local waters
State and federal insults to local independence have long been a sore point for the Long Island towns, including Shelter Island, that claim exclusive jurisdiction over their own waters and bay bottoms under colonial patents issued more than 350 years ago. Last week, Shelter Island’s Town Board briefly thought the state...
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Town asks state to reopen Dering Harbor for clamming in winter months
Town Supervisor Jim Dougherty has written the Department of Environmental Conservation asking it to reinstate a conditional shellfishing program launched in 2005 that allowed clamming and scalloping in the winter if the Shelter Island Heights Sewage Treatment Plant was operating properly. The DEC stopped the program because of funding issues, Mr....
