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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
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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
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Weather Service issues flood watch
The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for Thursday morning through Friday evening for Long Island, as weather officials are expecting storms to dump between 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 inches of rain over the region. "Locally higher amounts...possibly up to 5 inches" can also be expected, officials said. The...
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Times/Review Newsgroup unveils Northforker.com
Times/Review Newsgroup unveiled today its northforker brand, focusing entirely on tourism, lifestyle and leisure content from the North Fork. Times/Review Newsgroup, parent company of The Shelter Island Reporter, unveiled today, Thursday, its “northforker” brand, focusing entirely on tourism, lifestyle and leisure content from the North Fork and Shelter Island. Northforker.com will be...
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Baseball: Southold nears playoff spot with Carver’s 150th career win
FIRST SETTLERS 3, INDIANS 1 The same instinct that tells Southold’s baseball coach, Mike Carver, when to call for a bunt or a hit-and-run, told him that something was up. After Friday’s game, Carver was trailing his players as they marched from their Southold High School field to the gym. Then, one...
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$183,000 aid bump for Island roads
Aside from school aid bumps, other items in the New York State budget adopted Thursday include a "middle class" tax rebate for families with kids, a creation of a bar-type exam for prospective teachers and financial incentives for top-performing teaching. The budget will also increase the state minimum wage, and provide...
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Three arrests, five tickets on police blotter
Those named in arrest reports or receiving police summonses have not been convicted of a crime. In court, the charges against them may be reduced or withdrawn or the defendants may be found not guilty. Carlos L. Dominguez, 34, of Flanders was arrested on Summerfield Place in the Heights on Saturday,...
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Boys Basketball: BeltCappellino scores 29; Shelter Island tops Southold
INDIANS 70, FIRST SETTLERS 63 Suffolk County League VIII has some good, young basketball players who are making a name for themselves this season. Possibly the one with the longest name of them all, Matt BeltCappellino, may have shined the brightest of them all on Friday night. Junior BeltCappellino scored 19 first-half...
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This week in Shelter Island history
10 YEARS AGO Task force zeroes in on zoning issues A special Planning and Zoning Task Force told the Town Board in January 2003 it wanted to focus on regulations affecting near-shore zoning and building regulations pertaining to setbacks, heights, proportion of structures to lot sizes and pre-existing nonconforming structures. While the...
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Christmas losses, gains and blessings
As I drive home in December’s dusk, Christmas lights wink behind the bare bones of the trees from houses I never noticed. Atop a hill, a house sits, iced with white lights; another, perfectly reflected in Ice Pond, twinkles like a castle in the gloom. The tiny Christmas tree that...
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Town extends debris policy again
Brush and debris left by Hurricane Sandy will be accepted without a fee until the end of the year at the town Recycling Center but workers there are on the lookout for people abusing the grace period to get rid of leaves and other waste not associated with the storm. A...
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School generator wasn’t ready for Sandy; still needs testing
One mystery left in the wake of Super Storm Sandy was why Shelter Island School didn't resume classes on Wednesday despite the district’s purchase of a new generator this year. Mystery solved: It's not connected, according to Superintendent Michael Hynes. Throughout the summer, construction efforts were in overdrive to get extensive work...
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Patient crossing at height of storm
Sandy didn’t blow through without providing a backdrop for drama. At the height of the storm, around 1 p.m. Monday, all Island first responders — ambulance EMTs, fire and police departments’ personnel — came to the rescue of an Island woman in her 90’s. She was at home in the Center...
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Islanders prep as Category 1 Sandy set to hit late Sunday
What’s being dubbed ‘Frankenstorm’ — the combination of Hurricane Sandy captured by an upper level trough coming from the Midwest — should begin to be felt on Long Island sometime late Sunday, with Sandy expected to make landfall as a Category 1 hurricane, weather officials said. And it’s expected to stick...
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A dream day for Whitebread race
With winds over 30 knots and waves nearing four feet, the 19th annual Whitebread 'round the whirl' sailboat race was a sunny yet windy sailor's dream come true. A fleet of 130 boats came from 30 miles or more to partake in what will doubtless be one of the most memorable...
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Girls Volleyball: Shelter Island beats Clippers in fight for first place
INDIANS 25, 25, 25, CLIPPERS 17, 13, 22 First place in Suffolk County League VIII belongs solely to the Shelter Island girls volleyball team. At least for now. It might have seemed reasonable to assume that since the graduation this past spring of outside hitter Kelsey McGayhey and setter Haley Willumsen, two...
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Shelter Island Fire Department remembers the fallen of 9/11
On the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Shelter Island Fire Department displayed an American flag from its aerial ladder truck over Route 114 at the Center firehouse. On the ground in front of the truck, draped with funereal...
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Labor Day exodus: situation normal for holiday as North Ferry line backs up
Police officers were posted on Bridge Street at Chase Creek on Monday afternoon to prevent gridlock as the North Ferry line extended into the business district. Ferry traffic was directed up Chase Avenue and left on Grand in order to approach the end of the line via Auburn and Locust avenues....
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Would-be copper thief knocks out Shelter Island phone lines
Verizon employees are working around the clock to repair a severed phone cord that runs from Greenport to Shelter Island, Verizon officials said. A would-be thief cut the cord — about the width of a grapefruit — Wednesday night at the shoreline just east of the town beach in an attempt...
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Camp Good Grief moves to Southold, where it hopes to stay
Camp Good Grief, the free five-day youth bereavement program now in its 16th season, came to the North Fork for the first time this summer and hopes it’s found a permanent home at Peconic Dunes Camp in Southold. “I think we’re very much looking forward to making this our base of...
