06.20.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island fathers talk about fatherhood Should a woman (for example, me) write about Father’s Day? Can someone who has never been a father appreciate what it takes, what it feels like to be...
06.10.2026 Featured Story New chapter for the happy tale of the whale Not long after Nicole and Robert Strauss decided they would run the Island’s much-loved mini-golf and ice-cream establishment, The Whale’s Tale, they went to look over the property with...
06.01.2026 Featured Story Sculpture@Sylvester Manor returns: Exhibits appear throughout the landscape A striking object is taking shape on the lawn that slopes down to the creek behind the old yellow house at Sylvester Manor. It seems that a long, sinuous...
05.27.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island, we’ve got your number Shelter Island is a place of many mysteries, and one of the most impenetrable is the phone book. Who produces it and how? Why in the information age is...
05.18.2026 Featured Story Taking a tour of the new library in progress: A 21st Century building to serve all Islanders My tour of the new Shelter Island Library expansion with Library Director Terry Lucas and Board President Henry Fayne began at the same entrance I passed through when I...
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