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08.29.2026 Featured Story

Island Voices

How has living and working on Shelter Island shaped what you create, and the way you see and think as an artist? Chris Sorensen On the ferry, everything melts...

08.29.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Bruce M. Hopke

Bruce M. Hopke, 73, of Shelter Island, passed away peacefully on Aug. 23, 2026. Bruce was a beloved florist for many years in Deer Park, N.Y.. He was a...

08.29.2026 Featured Story

Gimme Shelter: Caffeinated

I have become what I feared I would become. A coffee snob. No, not that person at Starbucks ordering a grande macchiato pumpkin spice with dark chocolate shavings —...

Featured Multimedia

08.28.2026 Around the Island

Union Chapel’s Poetry Sunday: Last service of the season

08.28.2026 News

Menantic Yacht Club goes Up the Creek

08.28.2026 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Stay smart, stay safe

On the East End, a paleta palooza beats the heat

Southside Sips: Marlena’s Pack Out Mudslide

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Community

08.27.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter’s Community Calendar: Aug. 27, 2026

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

08.26.2026 News

Vigil of Hope is Thursday

The 6th Annual Vigil of Hope on Thursday evening at the Fiske Field basketball...

08.25.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Country Club celebrates 125 years

The widespread rain the Island experienced this weekend was not enough to stop the...

Obituaries

08.17.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Peter C. Gulluscio

Peter C. Gulluscio of Shelter Island died on Friday, Aug. 14, 2026, at the...

07.16.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter obituaries: Hodgkinson, Volinski

Kathryn Hodgkinson Kathryn Jean Kloepfer Hodgkinson of Yorktown Heights, N.Y. passed away peacefully on...

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...

Sports

Latest Sports

08.28.2026 Featured Story

Menantic Yacht Club goes Up the Creek

This past Sunday, with only three weeks to go in the Menantic Yacht Club’s 2026 Sunfish sailing season, and...

08.22.2026 Featured Story

Afloat: Masquerade, local, seaworthy and tales to tell

The locavore movement has been a trend for a while now. Local fresh food...

08.21.2026 News

Bucks coach reflects on that championship season

Before the Shelter Island Bucks arrived to play their 2026 season, Coach Andy Concepcion...

Opinion

08.28.2026 Editorial Staff

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Stay smart, stay safe

08.27.2026 Reader Submission

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Aug. 27, 2026

08.23.2026 Karl Grossman

Suffolk Closeup: Safe alternatives to forever chemicals

08.23.2026 Editorial Staff

Reporter editorial: You’re being watched

08.16.2026 Robert Lipsyte

Codger’s Column: Rest in pieces