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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 Public Library
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Profile: Melina Wein finds way to business summit
Building a business on Shelter Island has been a little like climbing Mount Everest for Melina Wein, who founded her own real estate brokerage here in 1998, seven years after she and her husband Marc made their climb to the 18,000-foot base camp on their honeymoon. “I didn’t start out really...
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Profile: Gary Paul Gates’ keyboard still clattering away
Who would think this guy with the boyish shock of hair has had a career in the news business that stretches from the glory days of big city dailies through the golden age of TV news and on to the internet? In his half a century in the trenches, Gary Paul...
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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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Obituaries: Barry, Hicks, Maurillo
Elizabeth Barry of Terry Drive and North Palm Beach, Florida passed away on March 10, 2013 in Florida at the age of 92. Father Peter De Sanctis officiated at a Mass celebrating her life at Our Lady of the Isle and she was laid to rest with her husband David...
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Movies at the Library welcomes spring
Movies at the Library is celebrating its ninth year with a spring collection that lives up to the series motto, “great movies, known and unknown.” The series will open on Tuesday, April 2 at 7 p.m. with one of the latter, a little-known American film from the mistress of comedy, Elaine...
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Movies at the library: Celebrating Cole Porter
Say the name “Cole Porter” and chances are some catchy, favorite tune comes to mind. “I Love Paris,” “You Do Something to Me,” “You’re the Top,” “Begin the Beguine” and “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love” are just a few of the witty, sophisticated, romantic tunes Porter contributed to...
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This week in Shelter Island history
10 YEARS AGO Memo targets Building Department Town Board members were on the war path 10 years ago penning a rebuke to Building Inspector William Banks. “Your department is one of the most visible aspects of town government and it’s very important that the public believe that the Building Department does its...
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Several weekend events canceled on Island
IGA cashier identifying herself only as "Mean Jean" — she's really not — reported a steady flow of shoppers Friday as year-rounders stocked up on last minute essentials and weekenders bought what they needed to make it through the storm. But the majority rushed in and out of the store with...
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Chaplin plays at the library
Before there was Archie Bunker or even Mickey Mouse, there was the Little Tramp — Charlie Chaplin’s Everyman, the splay-footed, bowler-topped, long-suffering fellow who makes us believe that we too, for the sake of facing down adversity, could make a meal of our own shoe, triumph over the numbing demands...
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Author Rita Plush at Friday Night Dialogues
Step out on January 25 and join Rita Plush at Friday Night Dialogues at the Library – 6 p.m. in the lower level community room — where she will discuss her new novel, “Lily Steps Out.” A “middle-age coming of age” story, this is the tale of Lily Gold —a woman...
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Assemblyman Thiele slated to speak at Friday forum
Fred W. Thiele, who, as of January l, represents Shelter Island in New York State’s newly formed lst Assembly District, will be the featured speaker at Friday Night Dialogues at the Library on January 18 at 6 p.m., where he will be discussing issues affecting the Island — “1st Things...
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From Shelter Island to around the world
There are almost as many sailors on Shelter Island as there are sea shells on its ribbon of beaches. But there’s only one Amanda Clark — and she’ll be at the helm of Friday Night Dialogues at the Library at 6 p.m. on Friday, January 4. Amanda Clark had already earned her...
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What were Islanders reading in 2012?
‘Tis the season of comfort, joy and, oh, did we mention, lists? Yes, lists. Everywhere you turn, someone is recapping the best and worst of the year that is about to end. Movies, TV shows, plays, restaurants, books and anything else you can think of. Blame it on David Letterman, but...
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Voters approve Shelter Island Library budget
By a 104-37 vote, Shelter Islanders on Saturday approved an increase of $28,886 to $510,327 in taxpayer funding for the Shelter Island Public Library in 2013. The budget includes $104,000 in revenue from other sources. The turnout was down from last year's vote, when the library also sought a taxpayer funding...
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Movies at the Library features ‘Wag the Dog’ tonight
BY GARY PAUL GATES We are now in the final weeks of the political season and, like millions of other Americans, Movies at the Library will focus its attention this month on the hurly-burly spectacle of big-time politics. Our next film, which will be shown on tonight at 7 p.m. is...
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Library renovation still in the demolition phase
Two months after breaking ground on a renovation project to create more usable space without actually expanding the Shelter Island Public Library, workers are still in the process of demolition, according to Library Director Denise DiPaolo. “The first phase of renovation is not very glamorous — a lot of dust, a...
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Library adds electronic resources and receives a four star rating
The library has added three new electronic services, the Law Depot and the Corporate Reference Library and Superfund Information Service, all of which can save you time and money. The Law Depot allows users unlimited access to thousands of legal forms in categories such as real estate, business, human resources, family...
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Candidates sought for library’s board; Amended bylaws expand board
The Board of Trustees of the Shelter Island Public Library Society has amended the library’s bylaws to open the board to election by members of the Shelter Island Library Society and to increase the number of trustees to 13 from 11, it was announced recently by Board President Jo-Ann Robotti. Four...
