04.18.2018 Government Dering Harbor approves revised hedge law, mayor praises removing ‘legislative burden’ At the April 14 Village of Dering Harbor Board of Trustees meeting, Mayor John Colby Jr. announced that the board had passed a revised hedge/fence law, enabling residents to...
04.09.2018 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY President Lyndon Johnson signed the 1968 Civil Rights Act, also known as the Fair Housing Act, to guarantee equal housing opportunities to all. An...
01.17.2016 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Brookhaven National Laboratory to be tested in court Next month, a 20-year-old class action lawsuit charging Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) with contaminating neighborhoods adjacent to its sprawling campus will be heard again in New York State Supreme...
06.09.2014 Letters Letters to the Editor Not so fast To the Editor: PSEG presented a proposal to build a substation costing $12 million (see story “PSEG calls for Island substation,” May 29), choosing the town-owned...