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07.13.2026 Featured Story

Illuminating Shelter Island Heights

Residents of Shelter Island Heights celebrated the Fifth Annual Illumination Night on Friday, July 10, by hanging lanterns and tea lights on their doors, porches, balconies and fences, and...

07.13.2026 Featured Story

Gone fishing: Best bet is east of Orient Point

It’s safe to say that we have entered the dog days of summer. With them comes the annual shift in our local fisheries. While the fishing in the bay...

07.13.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: July 13, 2026

ROCKING FOR THE ROCK To the Editor: Why Rocking for the Rock is so important to me: Last year I became aware of just how tough it is for...

Featured Multimedia

07.12.2026 News

Shelter Island Reporter obituaries: Macintosh, Morgan

07.12.2026 Opinion

Codger’s column: Heat from the kitchen

07.12.2026 Around the Island

Shelter Island Fireworks wows the Saturday night crowd

A splash of the Italian coast comes to Greenport

More space on tap for Kidd Squid

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Community

07.10.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Community Calendar: July 10, 2026

EVERY WEEK AA meetings: Keep It Simple & Early Birds Meeting in person at 7 a.m, Monday through Friday,...

07.07.2026 Featured Story

July happenings at the Shelter Island Library

Cheers for the red, white and blue! Red for the mellow-toned brick that’s going...

07.05.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island clambakes have history of their own

The Shelter Island clambake is epic, a feat of culinary engineering perfected thousands of...

Obituaries

07.07.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Sherman Owen McGayhey

Sherman Owen McGayhey, 88, of Lawrenceville, Ga. passed away on June 16, 2026. He...

07.03.2026 Featured Story

Robert L. Morgan

Robert L. Morgan of Shelter Is-land passed away on Sunday, June 28, 2026. He...

05.19.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Richard Boland

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Richard “Dick” Boland,...

05.07.2026 Obituaries

Shelter Island full obituary: Frederick J. Buonocore

Frederick J. “Fred” Buonocore of Shelter Island, and formerly of East Williston, N.Y., passed...

05.04.2026 Obituaries

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: William Eric Schmitz

William Eric Schmitz, affectionately known to all as Billy, passed away on Jan. 31,...

04.28.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Erica Jean Virtue

Erica Jean Virtue, beloved wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend, passed away on...

Sports

Latest Sports

07.10.2026 Featured Story

A Heatherton Trophy Race for everyone

Imagine a FIFA game between top ranked Germany and lowest ranked San Marino. Or The Washington Wizards having court...

07.09.2026 Featured Story

Free World Cup Final viewing at Sunset Beach

The Town Board unanimously passed a resolution enabling the Sunset Beach Hotel to set...

07.09.2026 Featured Story

Bucks win six straight with victory over Ospreys

After a string of losses, the Shelter Island Bucks recorded six straight wins in...

Opinion

07.12.2026 Ambrose Clancy

Codger’s column: Heat from the kitchen

07.11.2026 Ambrose Clancy

Reporter editorial: Well done, Shelter Island

06.22.2026 Nancy Green

Moving Forward column: Greed

06.21.2026 Editorial Staff

Editorial: Father’s Day

06.19.2026 Reader Submission

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: June 19, 2026