04.29.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Gifted When I asked Mary Lou Eichhorn, proprietor of the iconic Island gift shop, Cornucopia, for an interview this week, I knew it wouldn’t be her first rodeo — hardly....
04.28.2025 Featured Story Prose & Comments: History — personal and Island-wide BY CHRIS CAREY My family first came to Shelter Island from Brooklyn in 1952. Our father, Hugh, drove my mother, Helen, and five children past Lake Panamoka, heading east...
04.27.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Photo Quiz: What is that? April 27, 2025 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Roger McKeon is on a roll, identifying last week’s photo (see right) as “a young...
04.27.2025 Featured Story Five things you’ll learn at the next Shelter Island Friends of Music Come hear Michael Stephen Brown, pianist and composer, presented by Shelter Island Friends of Music, on Saturday, May 3, at the Presbyterian Church, at 6 p.m. Here are five...
04.26.2025 Featured Story Drive through history at Mashomack: Explore the Preserve’s past and present On Saturday, May 3, in celebration of 45 years of conservation at Mashomack, the public is welcome for a special tour of the Preserve presented by The Nature Conservancy...
04.24.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Community Calendar: April 24, 2025 EVERY WEEK AA meetings: Keep It Simple & Early Birds Meeting in person at 7 a.m, Monday through Friday. Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. Saturdays 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Church. Adult...
04.22.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Friends of Music presents Michael Stephen Brown Shelter Island Friends of Music will present award-winning pianist and composer Michael Stephen Brown in concert on Saturday, May 3 at 6 p.m. at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church....
04.21.2025 Featured Story Easter weekend gathering at Shelter Island History Museum The Shelter Island History Museum offered a little taste of summer on Saturday, April 19, with a special Easter weekend Farmers Market. Some of the most popular vendors of...
04.21.2025 Featured Story Calling all volunteers for Shelter Island Cleanup: May 3 event to clear roadsides and beaches The Shelter Island Lions will hold its 8th annual “Island Roadside and Beach Cleanup” on Saturday, May 3, from 9:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. Everyone will meet at the...
04.20.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Egg Hunt, a highlight of Easter weekend for family fun Saturday’s Easter Egg Hunt at Firemen’s Field gave families the kind of sunny, spring warmth that often eludes these April outdoor events. With the fire truck at the edge...
04.20.2025 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: Easter connections, April 20, 2025 I must have been about 10, when a few days before Ash Wednesday, my mother asked me what I was planning to give up for Lent. Faking a thoughtful...
04.19.2025 Featured Story What is that? April 19, 2025 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Roger McKeon came right up to bat to ID last week’s mystery photo (see bottom...
04.17.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Community calendar: April 17, 2025 EVERY WEEK AA meetings: Keep It Simple & Early Birds Meeting in person at 7 a.m, Monday through Friday. Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. Saturdays, 8:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Church. Adult...
04.15.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: After surgery Let me, up front, make my readers a solemn promise: After this post-op, “After” column, I will discontinue detailing any further surgeries of any kind — mine (heaven forbid),...
04.14.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Farmers Market returns on Saturday: Food, children’s stories, crafts and more An early taste of one of summer’s most popular treats will be a Spring Farmers Market at the Shelter Island History Museum (SIHM ) on Saturday, April 19 from...
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