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Paper gobbler set to roll into town Saturday
May 15, 2013
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Obituary: Reporter staffer David Lee Draper
May 20, 2013
Obituaries: Draper, Rodgers
March 7, 2013
Real Estate
ZBA: Both yes and no on controversial house
May 23, 2013
High end real estate deals escalate
May 1, 2013
Sylvester Manor
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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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Paper gobbler set to roll into town Saturday
The headliner for the show Saturday will be a voracious monster consuming two tons of what it feeds on every hour. It can take on 10,000 pounds without a pause. No, the Shelter Island Green Expo 2013 won’t be hosting an otherworldly competitive eater, but a world-class shredding machine. The Shred-Tech...
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Photos: ‘Sylvester Manor is a microcosm of early American history’
The history of Sylvester Manor is now told through an exhibit at New York University’s Bobst Library titled “Land, Food and Power.” Click here to read more....
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Manor’s complex history captured in NYU exhibit
The history of Sylvester Manor — from the mid 1660s through to the present day — is so much more than the story of the fortunes of the family that has owned the land through 15 generations. It’s a reflection of the history of Shelter Island itself, of Northern slavery...
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Ostby gifts Manor house and grounds
With the opening of the Sylvester Manor archives exhibit at New York University’s Bobst Library in New York City has come word that Eben Fiske Ostby, the manor’s owner, is donating the historic house and grounds to the nonprofit Sylvester Manor Educational Farm. Plans call for transferring the deed by...
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4-posters deployed, more coming if money’s available
Shelter Island is installing 4-poster units — the Island’s main weapon in countering deer ticks responsible for the spread of Lyme disease and other tick borne illnesses. There were 14 units deployed around the Island last week, according to Shelter Island Police Department clerk Jennifer Zacha. The 4-posters are designed to coat...
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Daffodil Show coming April 20
The Garden Club of Shelter Island will present the13th annual Daffodil Show, “Our Sheltered Hills of Daffodils,” on Saturday, April 20 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Ram’s Head Inn. The late Alice Fiske of Sylvester Manor was the founder of this judged show, which is under the auspices of...
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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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Archaeologists at Sylvester Manor
Early Monday morning in the bare, bitterly cold woods of Sylvester Manor, two men were up on a hill searching for the past. Stephen Mrozowski stared at the ground as John Steinberg dragged a squat metal box with one wheel attached over the thick leaf cover, looking at a monitor hung...
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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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Island profile: Julia Trunzo makes farming pay the bills
It was quite the caravan when Julia Trunzo and her partner Alan June, known as Fox, and their two dogs Amos and Able arrived at Sylvester Manor in January in two Dodge diesel pickups hauling a trailer full of hay with her parents right behind in a van carrying six...
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School superintendent plans major changes
Shelter Island School is poised for big changes. Superintendent Michael Hynes is kicking off curriculum and building use plans that he told the Board of Education are vital to preparing students to compete in college and job markets. In what amounted to a state of the district speech at the January...
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The way forward, with a look back
Shelter Island powers-that-be successfully tackled a number of issues in 2012, but there are still pending issues left on the table, and various boards have full plates for 2013. Among items waiting for action are: • Implementation of the new ban on underground irrigation systems due to take effect on September 1,...
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Town Board reports on finances at meeting
After receiving a check for $5,000 from the Shelter Island Lion’s Club to fund repairs at the long-delayed reopening of the kitchen at the Senior Activity Center, the Town Board got down to other financial matters at its December 7 meeting. Supervisor Jim Dougherty reported there was $2.5 million in the...
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This week in Shelter Island history
10 YEARS AGO Town formally okays St. Gabe’s deal The Town Board approved the acquisition of the upper eight acres of land at St. Gabriel's Spiritual Center for Youth giving the Passionist Fathers a financial boost and ensuring the preservation of the land. The land, the site of the annual Fire Department...
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ZBA wants terms for institutions
Should public properties such as the Mashomack Preserve and Sylvester Manor be exempt from terms imposed on private lots, limiting them to one residences on a single parcel? The Town Board clearly made the distinction earlier this month, granting the Nature Conservancy that runs the Preserve permission to install an additional...
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Editorial: Sylvester Manor Plant & Sing a celebration of community
Shelter Islanders have embraced the Sylvester Manor Educational Farm as a vital community organization. That’s a conclusion any observer would be likely to reach after last Saturday’s fifth annual Plant & Sing festival. More than 120 people volunteered to help the Educational Farm manage the event, thanks to the recruiting efforts...
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Photos: Fifth annual Plant & Sing on Shelter Island
Sylvester Manor's fifth annual Plant & Sing featured music, readings and poetry, singing, dancing, storytelling, harvesting and garlic planting, food events and activities for kids. The three-day event wraps up today. ...
