04.28.2018 Columns Codger’s excellent weekend Codger was reading a new novel borrowed from our wonderful library when he was struck by a passage set on Shelter Island.
04.15.2018 Columns Column: Victory for preservation in Suffolk Suffolk County’s visionary Farmland Preservation Program has just achieved a triumph.The state’s Appellate Division last month rejected a ruling by a state Supreme Court justice in 2016 that hamstrung...
03.08.2018 Announcements What’s Happening for the week ahead EQUAL MEANS EQUAL In honor of Women’s History Month, on Thursday, March 8 at 7 p.m., the Shelter Island Library will present “Equal Means Equal,” a documentary that offers...
10.01.2017 Columns Suffolk Closeup: The state’s war on mute swans “I’d like to see them abandon this task that they are compelled to do,” said State Assemblyman Fred Thiele, Jr. (I-Sag Harbor) last week about a revised plan by...
07.23.2017 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Saving Suffolk’s farms “America has been losing over 40 acres of farmland every hour to development,” said the letter I recently received from the American Farmland Trust. “This land — the most...