04.19.2021 News Keeping close tabs on turtles: East End wildlife rescue mission meets milestone Turtles, clearly built for duration and not speed, have reigned for an estimated 220 million years. They crawled about when dinosaurs walked the earth. They are one of nature’s...
11.22.2017 Around the Island Weekly Calendar: November 23 — December 2, 2017 EVENTS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Community Potluck Thanksgiving Dinner, Presbyterian Church, 2 p.m. 749-5092. Everyone welcome. Bring a dish to share.
10.25.2017 Government Taxes would rise 3.6 percent to cover 2018 spending plan If Shelter Island’s budget was looking bleak at the end of last week, a weekend of review revealed that an error in a formula that sent numbers soaring was...
08.22.2017 News Fresh Pond tests render different readings Two water tests at Fresh Pond — especially two with strikingly different results — can’t tell the story about what’s happening with that prized body of water, according to...
02.21.2017 News New East End group aims to promote marine conservation To illustrate just how widespread littering along Long Island’s coastline can be, marine biologist Rob DiGiovanni likes to recall the time he cleaned up a beach in Hampton Bays.