Chris Francescani, Author at Shelter Island Reporter

02.24.2024 Featured Story

Greenport’s North Fork Arts Center renovation is underway

Last week, North Fork Arts Center executive director Tony Spiridakis gave the Greenport Village Board a preview of the new nonprofit’s spring debut season. “Our first event is going...

01.27.2024 Featured Story

Opioids fueling rise in countywide sex trafficking

They’re runaways, foster kids, homeless teens, impoverished single mothers, drug addicts: disadvantaged and vulnerable young women in desperate need of a helping hand. Each one is someone’s daughter, someone’s...

01.12.2024 Featured Story

Greenport grad Christopher John Worrell sentenced in Capitol insurrection

Christopher John Worrell, a 1990 Greenport High School graduate and self-described member of the Proud Boys extremist group, was sentenced in federal court in Washington, D.C., last week to...

12.07.2023 Featured Story

It’s the season of deer and vehicle accidents: Dawn and dusk are the most dangerous times

It’s a scenario familiar to all Shelter Island drivers, whether from personal experience, a near miss or just a healthy caution: that startling moment when a deer bolts out...

11.03.2023 Featured Story

Greenport approves zoning changes, lifts building moratorium: Changes on the horizon for village

Stepping or driving off a North Ferry Boat in Greenport might have many new sights for Islanders to behold in the near future. After months of meetings, six public...

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