09.15.2019 Editorial Reporter editorial: Election season ground rules It’s that time of year, so here are the Reporter’s ground rules for this election season. Every year a couple of months or so before Election Day, we present...
03.14.2012 Editorial Prose & Comments: A bridge too small BY VINCENT NOVAK I worked as an electronic journalism editor and television broadcast engineer for 27 years. I’d like to share some thoughts and insights about our current Cablevision...
03.08.2012 Columns Prose & Comments: Blowing in the wind? BY HERB STELLJES All around the country, around the world, and even here on Shelter Island, almost everyone agrees that the weather has certainly been unusual, to say the...
03.01.2012 Columns Prose & Comments: Alex Garcia — A friend remembers BY JANET ROACH The friendship began in early 1980, in a snowstorm. I’d recently bought a house on Shelter Island and friends wanted to introduce me to the other...
12.17.2011 Around the Island Prose & Comments: The Hope Diamond and other gifts The night before the PTSA Holiday Boutique, which happens December 20, the lobby of the school is transformed with the help of elves into a Christmas wonderland. The jewelry...