09.07.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Labor Day 2026 Labor Day, America’s end-of-summer weekend celebration, lost its original meaning long ago. The first Monday in September was earmarked Labor Day as an election year appeasement by President Grover...
08.28.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Stay smart, stay safe Words such as “a war” or “an explosion” to describe social conditions or medical emergencies are at times used by public officials (and yes, journalists) to sensationalize an issue....
08.23.2026 Featured Story Reporter editorial: You’re being watched The novelist/prophet George Orwell famously created a police state with an authoritarian dictator running a country where surveillance was a method to ensure total mind and body control of...
08.15.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: A catastrophe People are snatched off streets by armed men with no identification, and then lost in a bureaucracy of detention centers, held in deplorable conditions, and the powers-that-be are not...
08.07.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: August 2026 Hang in there, we’re almost out of the woods. Or should we say out of the kennel? Next Tuesday, Aug. 11, we’ll have come through “The Dog Days of...
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