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09.17.2026 Featured Story

Tracing roots through the centuries: Descendants explore Havens family connections

This summer, as the Shelter Island History Museum focused on the 250th anniversary of the nation’s Declaration of Independence, the courage of the Island’s own patriotic resistance to the...

09.17.2026 Featured Story

Voters approve bond 26 to 6 for fire tanker

Residents ventured out to the Center Firehouse Tuesday night to approve bonding for a new fire tanker to replace a smaller tanker that was challenged to provide enough water...

09.17.2026 Featured Story

Town Board hears about hazards affecting residents

Police Chief Jim Read appealed to the Town Board at Tuesday morning’s work session to move ahead with revisions to the hazard mitigation plan. The plan is meant to...

Featured Multimedia

09.17.2026 Police

Police: DWI arrest early Wednesday morning

09.16.2026 News

Resilience and confidence marks 2026 Island volleyball team

09.16.2026 News

Shelter Island Police Department blotter: Sept. 16, 2026

Michelle Obama’s “Women Like Us” to film on Shelter Island

Montauk Brewing Co. opens new taproom in Port Jeff

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Community

09.16.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Community Calendar: Sept. 16, 2026

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

09.13.2026 News

What grandparents give us

At the heart of Grandparents’ Day — celebrated today — are three simple ideas:...

09.11.2026 Featured Story

Paul R. Carey Memorial Golf Outing returns Sept. 21: Islanders support those facing health challenges

While summer comes to a close and Shelter Island begins to quiet down, many...

Obituaries

08.29.2026 Obituaries

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Bruce M. Hopke

Bruce M. Hopke, 73, of Shelter Island, passed away peacefully on Aug. 23, 2026....

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,...

Sports

Latest Sports

09.16.2026 Featured Story

Resilience and confidence marks 2026 Island volleyball team

I am really enjoying working with the 2026 Shelter Island volleyball team. Admittedly, that is generally true each year,...

09.14.2026 Featured Story

Gimme Shelter: Ball geezer

With the U.S. Open winding up this weekend, I’ve been thinking about my own...

09.13.2026 Featured Story

Gone fishing: Albie invasion

One of fall’s most iconic fisheries is officially underway here on Long Island. A...

Opinion

09.15.2026 Jenifer Maxson

Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Regeneration

09.12.2026 Robert Lipsyte

Codger’s Column: A common chorus

09.11.2026 Reader Submission

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Sept. 11, 2026

09.10.2026 Editorial Staff

Reporter Editorial: The struggle of memory against forgetting

09.07.2026 Editorial Staff

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Labor Day 2026