01.01.2026 Featured Story Jenny Zahler is the Reporter’s Person of the Year When two friends braved freezing waters at Shell Beach two weeks ago to try to save Archie, a year-and-a-half-year-old Labradoodle who had fallen through the ice, among the first...
12.31.2025 Featured Story Year in Review: Shelter Island School in 2025 For the first time in his tenure as school superintendent, Brian Doelger, Ed.D., saw the proposed school budget for 2025-26 defeated by voters last May. It was also the...
12.28.2025 Featured Story Town exploring energy alternatives: Reducing costs, emissions and challenges While a final report is pending on Shelter Island’s participation in the Energy Transition Partnership (ETIPP), Green Energy Options Chairman Tim Purtell provided the Town Board at its Dec....
12.27.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Town Board work sessions to move to 9 a.m. from 1 p.m. The Town Board has changed its work session schedule moving meetings from 1 p.m., Tuesdays to 9 a.m., Tuesdays.. The first of the 9 a.m. work sessions is scheduled...
12.26.2025 Featured Story Controversy remains over Siller/Cornucopia site plan At its Dec. 22 meeting, the Town Board had no comment on a letter received from Helene Starzee, who had opposed site plan approval for former supervisor Gerry Siller’s...