04.16.2022 Sports Getting ready for games, and life: Softball coach on learning skills It was a tough defeat for the Shelter Island varsity softball team on the road against Pierson on April 12. But the final lopsided score didn’t tell the whole...
03.22.2019 Island Profiles Island Profile: Bill Zitek, beloved vet and volunteer When Bill Zitek was growing up in New Rochelle, New York, a man named William Rodman Pell II came from Suffolk County every June to receive a fatted calf...
06.01.2018 Island Profiles Island Profile: Francesca Frasco, Island scientist who never stops running When Shelter Island High School senior Francesca Frasco and I sat down to talk at her family’s home on Wade Road, it was Friday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend....
11.18.2014 Education Island’s 50th Annual Science Fair set for December 5 Francesca Frasco, 14, is exploring estrogen mimics — artificial hormones that can affect our bodies. Like any good scientist, the Shelter Island School freshman chose the topic because she...