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Sunset Beach asks for Bastille Day party permit
June 19, 2013
Education
This week in Shelter Island history
June 7, 2013
Business
Merchants, board look to lower speed on Bridge St.
June 17, 2013
Driveway settlement? Judge may impose decision
June 13, 2013
Community
Bausman steps down as Island Red Cross CEO
June 17, 2013
Obituaries
Obituary: Barbara Joy Roberts Carlsen
May 28, 2013
Obituary: Reporter staffer David Lee Draper
May 20, 2013
Real Estate
This week in Shelter Island history
May 30, 2013
Opinion
Letters to the Editor: Dark skies, pro and con
June 13, 2013
Letters to the Editor
June 11, 2013
Shelter Island Library
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Eye on the Ball: Oh, the things I regret not saying
Well, it happened to me again — there I was, relaxed and enjoying a fresh cup of coffee one morning this week at one of my regular spots when a couple of first-time Shelter Island visitors decided to sit next to me. As I always do (according to my wife)...
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Obituary: Reporter staffer David Lee Draper
David Lee Draper of Shelter Island, at the age of 72, passed away at Eastern Long Island Hospital under the care of East End Hospice on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. David had been a Reporter proofreader but was best known as the paper’s puzzle master, creating crossword and other intriguing puzzles...
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This week in Shelter Island history
10 YEARS AGO Irrigation ban approved It was at this time in 2003 that the Town Board approved legislation that would ban installation of new underground irrigation systems on Shelter Island, with implementation of the ban to be delayed for 10 years. But at the time, the new legislation also limited hours...
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Column: At the library
The calendar may say “spring” but here on the East End, we march to our own rhythm. While the days are blessedly longer, they are still very chilly (OK, some are downright cold!) with gardening and outdoor play still on the the long-term wish list. And to add insult to injury,...
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Island profile: Mary-Faith Westervelt never gave up on career goals
Mary-Faith Westervelt is not one to put herself on cruise control and take her foot off the gas. Don’t let the easy-going demeanor and ready laugh fool you. She’s a hard driver. No wonder she’s a racing fan and far more than just a spectator. The former registrar and time-trials chair...
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Column: Thanks for humoring my indulgences
I’m about at the end of the one-year period I promised myself for pushing a novel I was forced to self-publish because editors and agents all said its sales potential was too small. An e-book since 2010, but much revised since then, it came out in paperback a year ago...
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Sugar fix at the library’s Friday Night Dialogues
Take a step back in the Island’s history to the 17th century on Friday, March l as you watch “The Sugar Connection: Holland, Barbados, England, Shelter Island,” a documentary showing for the first time how global trade by the Sylvesters of Shelter Island literally wrote Long Island’s history and defined...
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LongHouse director to speak at the library
Friday Night Dialogues at the Library will celebrate one of the East End’s most exquisite gems, the LongHouse Reserve, on February 8 at 6 p.m. The reserve lies deep in East Hampton’s Northwest Woods, hidden from the hurly-burly of the Hamptons. Executive Director Matko Tomicic brings a magical and informative tour...
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New Parrish Museum comes to the library
New Parrish Art Museum Director Terrie Sultan Ms. Sultan will take Shelter Islanders on a behind-the-scenes tour of the extraordinary new East End arts destination at 6 p.m. on Friday, February l as part of the Friday Night Dialogues series at the Shelter Island Library. “We have nothing to stop us...
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Trustees elected at library’s annual meeting
Highlights of 2012 and goals for the coming year were presented by Shelter Island Library Board President Jo-Ann Robotti at the library’s annual meeting on Saturday, January 19. A financial report was also available; all reports can be obtained at the library’s front desk. Board member Paul Mobius introduced the Nominating...
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January’s library film pick is ‘Monsoon Wedding’
Tired of dreary winter weather? Getting the post-holiday blahs? Longing for warmer temps, longer days? Take a break. Come to the enveloping warmth of Delhi, India for “Monsoon Wedding,” the opening salvo of our 2013 season of Movies at the Library. It will be shown at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, January...
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Trustee positions open at Shelter Island Library
There’s still time to apply for one of five seats open on the Shelter Island Library’s Board of Trustees. Four of the current trustees are eligible to stand for re-election to three-year terms; a fifth position is for one year, completing the term of a retiring board member. The deadline...
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Friday Night Dialogues takes on digital marketing
The Shelter Island Chamber of Commerce will join the Shelter Island Library for a Friday Night Dialogue on digital marketing with Jen Lew, winner of Dan’s Papers’ “Best of the Best Marketing Firm 2012,” tonight at 7 p.m., just in time for the busy holiday season. Mattituck-based online marketing consultant and...
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Call them crazy: For the library, that is
Air Temperature at 41 degrees. Winds 13 to 16 knots. Seas around 2 feet. Small craft warnings. Water temperature in the shallows, 45 degrees. The above conditions produced yells, screams, howls and shrieks from about 100 people — and another 200 hundred cheering them on — throwing themselves from Crescent Beach into...
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Teens can get locked in at the library
Students in grades 7 through 12 are invited to stay up all night, enjoying games, movies and food, at the Shelter Island Library tonight. The teen lock-in is scheduled from 8 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. Registration and permission slips are required. Call 749-0042 today if you'd like to know more about this event. ...
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Friday Night Dialogues: Victorian lady invented cosmetics industry
Distinguished art historian, author and curator, Annette Blaugrund, comes to Friday Night Dialogues at the Library next week, October 26, to discuss the incredible and fascinating story of a Victorian entrepreneur — a woman who “invented the cosmetics industry,” a woman she first saw in a period painting. After six...
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Paint a pumpkin in time for Halloween
Decorate a pumpkin just in time for Halloween. Visit the Shelter Island Library at 3 p.m. today for a session of pumpkin painting. For more information, call the library at 749-0042....
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The one and only Maggie Murphy at ‘Friday Night Dialogues’ tonight
There are 112 Maggie Murphys listed on LinkedIn, but there’s only one who edits America’s largest magazine – only one who will share her unique experiences and most memorable interviews in “All things Parade” at 7 p.m. tonight at Friday Night Dialogues at the Library. With 33 million copies distributed through...
