01.19.2021 Education Shelter Island Board of Education re-ups immunization policy In line with state requirements enacted in 2019, the Board of Education continued its policy of requiring that students present proof of immunizations in order to attend classes. The...
11.12.2019 Around the Island Learning to live every day: Islander stricken with ‘post-polio’ has a message The six-year old girl put her feet on the floor as she got out of bed one morning in the Brooklyn apartment she shared with her parents. One leg...
09.16.2019 Education Shelter Island Preschool welcomes 10 students “It’s a very beautiful rhythm this year,” said Hannah Gray, Shelter Island Early Childhood Learning Center teacher who, with her new assistant, Kaitlin McElroy, welcomed students to the privately...
09.04.2019 Education School superintendent: Vaccination law not hampering attendance School Superintendent Brian Doelger doesn’t believe the new state law mandating students be vaccinated in order to attend public, private or parochial schools in New York has any effect...
04.01.2015 Education Making the case for immunizations “To me, it’s not even a question.” That’s Shelter Island School Nurse Mary Kanarvogel on the controversy about immunizing children prior to their enrolling in school.