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Sports
More photos from the Shelter Island 10K
June 16, 2013
Education
This week in Shelter Island history
June 7, 2013
Business
Merchants, board look to lower speed on Bridge St.
June 17, 2013
Driveway settlement? Judge may impose decision
June 13, 2013
Community
Bausman steps down as Island Red Cross CEO
June 17, 2013
Obituaries
Obituary: Barbara Joy Roberts Carlsen
May 28, 2013
Obituary: Reporter staffer David Lee Draper
May 20, 2013
Real Estate
This week in Shelter Island history
May 30, 2013
Opinion
Letters to the Editor: Dark skies, pro and con
June 13, 2013
Letters to the Editor
June 11, 2013
Hurricane Sandy
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Statement from Governor’s office on new utility for L.I.
Dear Fellow New Yorker, In the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy, the Governor established the Moreland Commission to investigate utility companies’ storm preparation and response efforts, including the Long Island Power Authority. The Commission found that in addition to LIPA’s failure to perform during the storm, the organization’s structural dysfunction was responsible...
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Tuesday’s Town Board work session report
At Tuesday's Town Board work session, members discussed an application from Van Wormer International, a German production company with offices in Poughkeepsie, New York and Florida, to film here for several days beginning May 22. The company wants to use locations in the Heights, Ram Island Drive and use the Hay...
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Summer rentals on the rise
When Hurricane Sandy spared Shelter Island from the worst of its wrath while walloping the New Jersey coastline and significant parts of Long Island, it forced some who have summered elsewhere to take a look at the Island. Some have told local realtors that’s what directed them here, while a general...
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What Sandy wrought
While the lion's share of cleaning up from Hurricane Sandy is over on Shelter Island, repairs to docks and bulkheads are still under way this spring. An indication of the serious erosion the super storm caused here can be seen in the photo above taken from Greenport showing vegetation washed away...
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Deadline approaching for Sandy-relief loans
Shelter Island business owners and others affected by Hurricane Sandy have just one week left to secure a disaster loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The deadline to apply for 30-year loans of up to $2 million is March 29, SBA officials said. “The loans can serve as bridge money for...
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Town Board looks at watershed management and beach fence
At Tuesday’s Town Board work session Department Of Public Works Commissioner Jay Card Jr. discussed fixing the fence at Crescent Beach that was severely damaged by Hurricane Sandy. The board also turned its attention to putting in place a watershed management plan for the future. The beach fence, which runs about...
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Orange pine trees? A mystery of nature solved
For those who have thought some Island trees have kept their glorious golden foliage long into winter, you haven’t been looking close enough. Those bright orange trees are evergreens, which means they should be, well, green. Many of the bright dayglow pines blazing around the Island are, in fact, in their...
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Cuomo on education, New York economies and post-Sandy lessons
New Yorkers will learn from the destruction and disasters in the wake of Hurricane Sandy — and we'll come back stronger because of it. So vowed Governor Andrew Cuomo at a "State of the State" address Thursday he delivered at Stony Brook University. "There was a silver lining to this storm," Mr....
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Corcoran back in business at Bridge Street headquarters
The Shelter Island office of the Corcoran Real Estate Group on Bridge Street is back up and running. The office, one of the businesses on Bridge Street hit hard by Hurricane Sandy, reopened recently after taking on serious damage from the super storm. “We wanted to mitigate the damage,” said Joseph DeSane,...
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Town Board covers deer, debris, stewardship and plant invasions
The Town Board was in a how-to state of mind at Tuesday’s work session. On the agenda was deer management, debris cleanup from Hurricane Sandy, land stewardship and educating the public on controlling invasive and destructive plant species. Admitting that the board was “playing catch up” in codifying management plans for property...
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This week in Shelter Island history
10 YEARS AGO Another quits planning and zoning panel David Heiman became the third member to quit a Planning and Zoning Task Force created by the Town Board to recommend zoning changes on Shelter Island. Committee member Jeffrey Simes and former task force chairman Hermann Carp Jr. both resigned previously. Mr. Heiman said...
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Lost cable service? Company will credit
If you’re a Cablevision customer who lacked service during and/or after Superstorm Sandy, you need to notify the utility within thirty days of the time your power was restored to receive a credit or reimbursement for the time you couldn’t access Cablevision. Cablevision bills carry a customer service telephone number customers...
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Town dump fee waived one more week
Brush and debris left by Hurricane Sandy will be accepted for another week without charge at the town Recycling Center but workers there are on the lookout for people abusing the grace period to get rid of leaves and other waste not associated with the storm. After a talk with Public...
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LIPA fails to keep date with school
There’s still no generator at Shelter Island School since Long Island Power Authority didn’t keep its date with contractors to hook up the new unit today. According to Brian McClave of McClave Engineering, the date for hookup had been scheduled months ago, but Hurricane Sandy diverted LIPA crews to work...
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Dealing with Sandy’s salted earth
Right after Hurricane Sandy, cleaning up the damage may have seemed straightforward. Cut up that tree that uprooted in the backyard after the storm tide weakened the roots. Call an electrician to have the service put back on and wait for LIPA to hook it up at the street. Fret and...
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Commuting to the job, the Island way
Strada Baxter Design Build, LLC of Amagansett, the company tackling the reconstruction work on the Smith-Taylor Cabin at Taylor’s Island, is determined that the tides won’t interfere with the ability to work on site. The only road to Taylor’s Island is a narrow spate of land that is only accessible at...
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Ferry captain continues mercy missions
Although the Federal Emergency Management Agency has requested money, not clothing and other supplies, North Ferry Captain Don Young has found a way to get solid goods to those in need. The captain connected with Operation Sandy — a group of Manhattan-based volunteers working with local churches to distribute supplies to...
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Editorial: We’re all in this together
How many Libertarians does it take to change a light bulb? That’s easy. None. If the bulb needed changing, the invisible hand of the free market would have done it. That punch line has an extra sting considering the cruel drumbeat of day-after-day darkness many in the region have endured in the...
