08.17.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: What the record will show “Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.” So said Abraham Lincoln, and the sad truth is that we often forget it until forced to confront it. History, in the form...
08.10.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Get involved A recent report by a Suffolk County task force on “coastal resilience” warned, yet again, that our precious land resources are in danger from rising tides. It estimated sea levels...
08.02.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Mid-summer dreaming The Dog Days of Summer descended on us on July 3 and will last the Biblical length of 40 days, or until Aug. 11. Why Dog Days? Some have...
07.12.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Ignoring the facts The United States has taken a U-turn away from producing clean, sustainable energy and back to a near-total focus on burning fossil fuels. The vehicle for this return to...
07.03.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Independence Day 2025 On July 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation: “All through our history, our presidents and leaders have spoken of national unity and warned us that the real...