02.17.2026 Featured Story When their boats can’t float, Shelter Island sailors glide The winter of 1934 on Shelter Island was cold, cold, cold. Did we mention cold? While Islanders stayed close to their stoves and out of the wind, Shelter Island...
02.12.2026 Featured Story Do you love someone who loves cake? Valentine’s Day is an ancient feast day, but making heart-shaped sweets to celebrate it started in the age of Queen Victoria. By the early 20th century, the Cadbury chocolate...
02.05.2026 Featured Story Meet Matt Celona, new Farm Manager at Sylvester Manor Matt Celona’s first day on the job as the new manager of the Sylvester Manor farm was Jan. 20, and even though the hoes and rakes were put away,...
12.21.2025 Featured Story Charity cooks: A Christmas cookie from awhile back I will never forget the first time I made a cookie. I put my 5-year old fingers in the flour, tasted and thought, this cannot possibly become something delicious....
12.09.2025 Featured Story Running 7 marathons in 7 days on 7 continents When Jennifer Rowe’s father, Alan Dowling taught her to sail a Hobie Cat on West Neck Bay as a girl, she took to it. Heedless of the wet, cold,...
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