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02.28.2021 Around the Island

Snow Moon sees out the shortest month

It’s appropriate that February’s full moon is called the “Snow Moon.” Deciphering the name is easy, because if you bet it to snow in February, start counting your money....

02.28.2021 Around the Island

Congratulations!

Shelter Island High School graduate Henry Binder has been named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2020 semester at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis. He is a 2020...

02.27.2021 Around the Island

Shelter Island Library conversation with an agent of change

Zooming into an interview with Robert Zellner last Friday night was like opening a window into a distant past. Yet Pulitzer-prize winning historian Diane McWhorter’s discussion with the civil...

02.27.2021 Columns

Column: Spreading joy through The Giving Pears Project

Elizabeth Lopez had always kept her health issues private. As a photographer who specializes in weddings and family portraits, she worried about how clients might perceive her if they...

02.27.2021 News

Submissions sought for county memorial that will honor victims of COVID-19 pandemic

A COVID-19 memorial will honor the lives of Suffolk County residents who succumbed to the virus and provide an “opportunity to find comfort in community” for those who lost...

02.26.2021 News

Island inoculation site runs smoothly: First doses of Pfizer vaccine administered at school

Esther Simovich was up late Thursday night into early Friday morning. “I was binge watching ‘The Rookie,’” the 65-year-old Islander said as she waited in the hallway outside the...