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Education
School car wash canceled
May 24, 2013
Don’t forget to vote: Polls open until 9 p.m.
May 20, 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
Peconic Land Trust
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Ostby gifts Manor house and grounds
With the opening of the Sylvester Manor archives exhibit at New York University’s Bobst Library in New York City has come word that Eben Fiske Ostby, the manor’s owner, is donating the historic house and grounds to the nonprofit Sylvester Manor Educational Farm. Plans call for transferring the deed by...
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Michael Coles: Easy choice to be Lions Club Citizen of the Year
Michael Coles isn’t a man who just throws money at a project and then turns his back. His long involvement supporting projects on Shelter Island, especially those that benefit children, comes from an unshakable belief: “You can have a house in a place, but you don’t really live there until...
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Column: South by Northwest
I thought maybe since winter was being so stubborn I would embrace it by hiking a hilly trail deep into an eastern white pine forest. These trees have a softness and grace about them that is warming to the soul and quells the winter doldrums. A venture such as this takes...
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Peconic Land Trust says ‘no’ to Paard Hill
The Peconic Land Trust (PLT) has officially turned thumbs down on an opportunity to take over 28.5 acres of Paard Hill horse farm to preserve as open space. Now the Town Board of Shelter Island has to decide if the town wants to accept the property, a highly unlikely result, since...
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This week in Shelter Island history
10 YEARS AGO Horseback riding lessons offered After a lengthy battle to secure Zoning Board of Appeals and Town Board approval to operate Paard Hill Farms, owners Pieter Ruig and Ellen Lear were advertising a riding program of 10 private, semiprivate or group lessons with rates ranging from $500 for 10 private...
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Town not interested in Paard Hill deal
Why pay for something you can’t use? That’s the consensus of the Town Board on the issue of taking over 28.5 acres of the Paard Hill Horse farm, which by agreement must be offered to the town or the Peconic Land Trust for a sale of the complete property — about...
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Paard Hill horse farm sale imminent
A deal is done to sell Paard Hill horse farm, according to a person close to the negotiations. But not so fast, said Christopher Kent of the Bridgehampton office of the law firm Farrell Fritz, representing the sellers, Pieter Ruig and Ellen Lear. “There’s an interested party and we’re waiting for some...
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Dering Harbor: Speed limits, new well on village agenda
The Village of Dering Harbor trustees and about a dozen residents had a first look on Saturday, December 15 at a draft of a proposed local law that would set speed limits at 25 mph on at least 12 village roads. The board had discussed at previous meetings the safety issues...
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Hilo gets high five for dock extension
When members of the Hilo Shores Association sought to build a community dock about 15 years ago, the idea was rapidly embraced by town officials who viewed the concept as a means of avoiding some 40 individual docks jutting out into West Neck Bay. But now, while members of the Waterways...
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Legal declaration ends Paard Hill commercial horse farm option
A legal document filed in January with the Suffolk County Clerk’s Office prohibits a commercial horse farm at Paard Hill if owners Peter Ruig and Ellen Lear sell the property or die. Titled only “Declaration,” it fulfills a pledge they made to the town Appeals Board more than 12 years ago...
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Buyer in the saddle for Paard Hill horse farm?
A prospective buyer wants to continue operating the Paard Hill horse farm, which founders Pieter Ruig and Ellen Lear have had on the market for $7.95 million, Supervisor Jim Dougherty announced at Tuesday’s Town Board work session. Under a stipulation of settlement dating back years but recorded only recently, any new...
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Peconic Land Trust seeks to work with town to prevent Reel Point erosion
The Peconic Land Trust, which owns Reel Point as a preserve, wants to work with the Town of Shelter Island to stop erosion of the narrowing cape at the mouth of Coecles Harbor so the bay does not break a new inlet into the harbor, cutting off the point and...
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First step in Sylvester Manor closing was donation of land
The historic Sylvester Manor land deal that closed in Riverhead on Wednesday, August 8 after many months of delay over technical issues included two major transactions: the first was a gift of the Manor’s 26.2-acre “Big Field” at the corner of Cobbetts Lane and Manhanset Road from owner Eben Ostby...
