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May 24, 2013
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May 20, 2013
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Times/Review Newsgroup unveils Northforker.com
May 23, 2013
Paper gobbler set to roll into town Saturday
May 15, 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
Jim Dougherty
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Town Budget: No public comment at hearing
There were no public comments when the Town Board held a public hearing on its proposed 2013 budget Wednesday. “For those who get battered in elections every two to four years,” commented Town Supervisor Jim Dougherty, “silence is golden.” The Town Board appears likely to adopt the plan later this month. It...
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Supervisor thanks Islanders as storm hits
Shelter Island Supervisor Jim Dougherty sent the following letter to the editor of the Reporter midday on Monday: To the Editor: Thank you Shelter Islanders for your courage and determination in preparing for and coping with Sandy. Your Town Emergency Preparedness Team and countless volunteers are working around the clock under Police Chief...
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Supervisor Jim Dougherty discloses he’s undergoing chemotherapy
Supervisor Jim Dougherty announced Tuesday he had learned that he probably has non-Hodgins lymphoma and that he'd spent 12 hours at Eastern Long Island Hospital on Monday undergoing his first chemotherapy treatment. He said the treatments were expected to go on for “a couple of months.” The diagnosis came after he had...
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Supervisor: Island Urgent is understaffing office
Adequate medical services are not being provided by Island Urgent Medical Care “as promised” when the company signed a lease for the front office space of the Town Medical Center, Town Supervisor Jim Dougherty agreed on Tuesday when a resident complained about staffing to the Town Board. This fall the company...
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Town’s initial 27-percent tax hike whittled down
For the Town Board, it’s all about the budget these days. Saying he wasn’t sure the “working numbers” were correct, Supervisor Jim Dougherty told members of the Shelter Island Association at their annual meeting on Sunday afternoon that the board was grappling with a 2013 budget plan that — at that point in a painstaking line-by-line review process...
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General fund spending up 10.35 percent to $8.013 million in supervisor’s tentative budget
Supervisor Jim Dougherty's tentative budget proposal, which will be formally submitted to the Town Board on Tuesday, shows general fund expenditures totaling $8,013,922.79, up 10.35 percent over the adopted 2012 municipal budget total of $7,261,955. But total proposed spending is $10,438,504.09, up only slightly from the 2012 adopted total of $10,382.663. The...
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Dougherty submits 2013 budget proposal that he says meets 2-percent tax cap
Meeting a state deadline of September 30 with time to spare, Shelter Island Town Supervisor Jim Dougherty on Friday filed his 2013 tentative town budget proposal with Town Clerk Dorothy Ogar. Under state law, the town supervisor is responsible for preparing a tentative town budget. Announcing the submission, he said his...
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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....
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Dougherty leads charge against proposed county fee affecting South Shore beaches
A proposed $4 after-hours fee for late parking at three Suffolk County ocean beaches “is an unfair, regressive penalty imposed on the ordinary citizen,” Shelter Island Town Supervisor Jim Dougherty declared yesterday in a press release on behalf of the East End Supervisors and Mayors Association, which he chairs. “Many visitors...
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Solution seen to beach ultimatum
Taxes and swimming were the big issues in Shelter Island Town Supervisor Jim Dougherty’s State of the Town address Sunday at the Ram’s Head Inn. The speech was sponsored by the Shelter Island League of Women Voters and was attended by more than 125 people. The swimming issue, which seemed to draw...
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Novak asks for correction from supervisor to clarify comment at meeting about ‘bugging’
Shelter Island resident Vincent Novak, who has been in the news for having complained to the Suffolk County Department of Health Services about public swimming in Fresh Pond, wants Supervisor Jim Dougherty to correct the impression that Mr. Novak "bugged" his telephone three years ago. Mr. Dougherty made a reference to...
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Town, PBA reach agreement on 3-year contract with 2% raises
The Town Board and the Shelter Island PBA on Thursday agreed to a three-year contract that grants 2-percent pay raises in 2012, 2013 and 2014 plus annual 1-percent longevity pay hikes for police who qualify. News of the agreement came at Thursday's meeting of the Town Board — which was held...
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Dougherty re-elected chair of East End mayors, supervisors group
At its December meeting, the East End Supervisors and Mayors Association re-elected Shelter Island Supervisor Jim Dougherty as chairman and elected Quogue Mayor Peter Sartorius as vice chairman. Mr. Dougherty commented, “I am gratified that my colleagues asked me to be chair for a third year and it is a privilege...
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CPF funding drops: Sylvester Manor development rights not in jeopardy
Word that Shelter Island sustained the largest decrease in Peconic Bay Community Preservation Funds of any of the East End towns in 2011 doesn’t surprise Supervisor James Dougherty. State Assemblyman Fred Thiele Jr. said the Island’s CPF revenues were down 39.7 percent for 2011, with $820,000 collected for the year. “I’m not...
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Dougherty wins, Waddington concedes after absentee ballot count in Shelter Island supervisor race
Supervisor Jim Dougherty won the race for Shelter Island Town supervisor on Friday as the Board of Elections finished its count of absentee and affidavit ballots in Yaphank. Mr. Dougherty beat his two challengers in the absentee voting by a margin of more than two to one. When the count becomes official,...
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Shelter Island’s absentee ballots slated to be counted Thursday
Candidates, party workers and lawyers were expected to be on hand at the Board of Elections in Yaphank Thursday, November 17, when the board was scheduled to begin recanvassing last Tuesday’s election results and count more than 300 absentee ballots and affidavit ballots that could change the outcome of the...
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Waddington has 61-vote edge over Dougherty; Reich and Shepherd lead council race
Shelter Island Town Councilman Glenn Waddington virtually claimed victory in a thank you speech to his supporters at about 9:45 Tuesday night at the Chequit Inn with unofficial results showing him ahead by 61 votes in the three-way race for supervisor. Mr. Waddington garnered 549 machine votes to incumbent Jim Dougherty's...
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Supervisor signed petition
Supervisor Jim Dougherty signed Richard Kelly’s petition last summer asking the Town Board to let the voters decide to change council members’ terms from four to two years. Mr. Dougherty was the sole dissenter when the Town Board voted 4-1 in August to put the issue on the ballot, saying he...
