05.01.2015 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY The first U.S. Army combat troops — 3,500 men from the 173rd Airborne Brigade — arrived in Vietnam.
03.15.2012 News Dougherty and others speak against halting open space program There’s general optimism from both local and county officials that phase one of plans to preserve 80 acres at Sylvester Manor will close this month. But there’s skepticism from...
02.19.2012 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Outcry over open space Leaders of environmental and civic organizations in Suffolk County last week blasted a bloc of Suffolk legislators who have been highly critical of the county’s farmland, open space and...
02.18.2012 News Open space moratorium is called a ‘Trojan Horse’ Supervisor Jim Dougherty has urged the Town Board to join him in Riverhead when the Suffolk County Legislature conducts a hearing next month on a Setauket legislator’s proposal to...