08.14.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial meeting Listening in on a gathering of Reporter editors and columnists is Aspen, the all-ears dog, identified by Peter Waldner, who should know. In the photo above, clockwise from top...
08.10.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Dr. Joseph Putignano Joseph Putignano, 85, of Shelter Island and Charleston, S.C., passed away peacefully in his sleep on Shelter Island, surrounded — as he always preferred to be — by the...
08.09.2025 Featured Story Star of the Show? At a break in filming of Peter Waldner’s latest production, “Frieda Takes the Stage,” Aspen, our cunning canine — identified by Mr. Waldner (who should know) — wanted to...
08.05.2025 Featured Story Pablo the Peacock can’t sit still Shelter Island Animal Control Officer Jenny Zahler has many tasks and duties, but none more familiar than rounding up Pablo the peacock when he strays from his home at...
08.03.2025 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: The Other Side I read recently about the sad case of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaxx fanatic who compared pandemic restrictions to Hitler’s Germany — he later apologized — and who...