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01.03.2026 Featured Story

Year In Review: Island politics — A gutter attack, an October surprise, a clear winner

It was a rocky year in politics on Shelter Island, from an anonymous, scurrilous attack on Amber Brach-Williams who was running for re-election as Town supervisor, to an extraordinary...

01.03.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Many choices for Person of the Year

We never had any doubt about the large number of people who offer their services to better Shelter Island and who help their neighbors. But it was heartening to...

01.03.2026 Uncategorized

Weather Service: Bitterly cold for the weekend

Cold, and snowy weather will continue for Shelter Island this weekend. Today, Saturday, the National Weather Service (NWS) is calling for increasing clouds and a high temperature of just...

Featured Multimedia

01.02.2026 News

Year in Review: Case closed on shocking crime

01.02.2026 News

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Steven B. Sanders

01.02.2026 Around the Island

Shelter Island Library News and Happenings

Holiday Pop! Celebrate the winter season with stellar Long Island sparkling

Emma Edwards is the sign signorina of the South Fork

Our partner publications offering the best of the North and South Fork.

Community

01.02.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Library News and Happenings

Building News Work continues non-stop on the existing building. All interior steel has been completed, walls and ceiling are...

01.01.2026 Featured Story

Jenny Zahler is the Reporter’s Person of the Year

When two friends braved freezing waters at Shell Beach two weeks ago to try...

12.30.2025 Featured Story

Year In Review: Another great race around Shelter Island

Shelter Island’s greatest annual sporting event, the 10K, lived up to expectations in 2025....

Obituaries

10.31.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter partial obituary: Mercedes M. Binder

Mercedes M. Binder of Shelter Island passed away on Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. She was...

10.15.2025 Featured Story

Clifford O. Springer

Clifford O. Springer, 78, of Plaistow, N.H. died on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. Cliff...

10.12.2025 Featured Story

John Stephen Quirke

On Sept. 26, 2025, John Stephen Quirke, 93, of Pompton Plains, N.J. and Shelter...

09.13.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Richard Tarpinian

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Feb. 27, 1934, longtime resident of Shelter Island with...

09.05.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Anita Marija Tichomirova Goldsmith Allen

Anita Allen died on Aug. 11 in Warren, R.I. surrounded by family at age...

09.03.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Theresa Rogers

Theresa Rogers, a professor of sociology and a summer and weekend resident of Shelter...

Sports

Latest Sports

12.17.2025 Featured Story

Varsity basketball team scores big: Notch first win of the young season

The Shelter Island varsity boys basketball team record stood at four losses and no wins on Monday, leading into...

12.10.2025 Featured Story

Varsity boys fall to St. Pius V at home: Seeking first win of young season

Shelter Island’s varsity boys basketball team now has no wins against three losses, dropping...

12.10.2025 Featured Story

Girls hoops team short-handed but full of fight: Getting support from each other and fans

It isn’t unusual for Shelter Island teams to have a limited roster. This year,...

Opinion

12.28.2025 Ambrose Clancy

Gimme Shelter: Endgame for English?

12.19.2025 Nancy Green

Moving forward: The anguish of family estrangement

12.12.2025 Reader Submission

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Dec. 12, 2025

12.12.2025 Editorial Staff

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Being prepared

12.08.2025 Robert Lipsyte

Codger’s Column: Vulnerable thoughts