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11.09.2025 Featured Story

Hands-on Shelter Island History: Students partner with H’way Depart. to restore markers

How three Shelter Island students came to assist Highway Department employees in restoring four historical markers on Island roadways can be traced to an obscure upstate judge who once...

11.09.2025 Featured Story

Projects for Shelter Island Town-owned buildings under discussion

The Capital Planning/Grants Committee is focused on how to put to use $70,000 in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) money. A decision has been made on making some critical...

11.09.2025 Featured Story

21st century skills lacking in many local officials

Whether standing behind the center console on a Boston Whaler or commanding a 1,000-foot Panamax container ship, the view from the bridge reveals the true nature of the waters...

Featured Multimedia

11.08.2025 Around the Island

Camp Good Mourning is shelter for grieving children

11.08.2025 Environment

A rescue at Crescent Beach: Rare creature is saved by quick thinking

11.08.2025 News

Greenport’s Maritime Festival hits rough seas

The Best Bite of Fall: Long Island Apples are a core fruit that connects us to the past

Wölffer’s got winter all bottled up

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Community

11.08.2025 Featured Story

Camp Good Mourning is shelter for grieving children

On fall and spring weekends for the past two years, a group of grieving children have arrived by ferry...

11.01.2025 Featured Story

A Shelter Island Halloween

One of the most joyous events on the Shelter Island calendar stepped off at...

10.30.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Community Calendar: Oct. 30, 2025

EVERY WEEK AA meetings: Keep It Simple & Early Birds Meeting in person at 7...

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

11.06.2025 Featured Story

Dr. Frank does it again

The New York City Marathon never gets old for Dr. Frank Adipietro, even after running the 26.2 mile endurance...

10.29.2025 Featured Story

‘Future Stars and Last Hurrahs’: Volleyball team wraps season

Suddenly it is the end of October and dinner can be eaten at the...

10.24.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island volleyball teams play strong, back each other up

The week of Oct. 13 was a whirlwind of playing for Shelter Island volleyball....

Opinion

10.31.2025 Editorial Staff

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: All politics is local

10.28.2025 Nancy Green

Column: When a pharmacy closes

10.26.2025 Reader Submission

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Oct. 26, 2025

10.26.2025 Jenifer Maxson

Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Legacy

10.25.2025 Editorial Staff

Shelter Island Reporter endorsements for Election 2025