03.18.2024 Around the Island Emergency pauses Shelter Island pickleball It was a lovely, gray, overcast St. Patrick’s Day morning when the Shelter Island Pickleball Gang noticed a peculiar smell in the American Legion Hall gymnasium. Someone made a...
03.17.2024 Around the Island Joanne Sherman’s Column: It’s in the book Our library has asked people to visit the downstairs book sale room in preparation for new construction. All those books were donated by generous Islanders who not only gave...
03.17.2024 Around the Island The gift of gab: Happy St. Patrick’s Day Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. — William Butler Yeats Hold to the now, the here, through which...
03.16.2024 Around the Island Where is that? March 16, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week’s mystery photo (see bottom right) was no mystery to several people who called...
03.14.2024 Around the Island Making (and eating) Irish Soda Bread — Any time of the year is right Traditional Irish Soda Bread consists of flour, salt, baking soda and buttermilk. That’s it. The baking soda needs the acid of the buttermilk. But, over the years, baking powder...
03.14.2024 Announcements Shelter Island Reporter Calendar of Events: March 14, 2024 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. Alignment...
03.13.2024 Around the Island Shelter Island Library’s Friday Night Dialogues presents ‘Broadway On a Budget’ Friday Night Dialogues welcomes Brian Stoll, who will discuss “all things Broadway” on March 15. His talk, only on Zoom, will cover how he managed to see over 280...
03.13.2024 Around the Island Column: Remembering Faye I knew her a little bit in Los Angeles when I was in low middle management in Metro at the L.A. Times. She had been hired away from The...
03.11.2024 Around the Island Top of the Shelter Island scallop heap Young Dredge Clark, age 6 months, (above) supervises while his father, Sawyer, shucks Peconic Bay scallops. With the shellfish harvest rebounding after an initially disappointing season, Sawyer and Norma...
03.11.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Journal: Shelter Island Golden Girl I was planning to write a column called Technology Pathology, a screed about technology systematically separating us from the world we’re trying to live in, forcing us into interacting...
03.10.2024 Around the Island Irish Brown Bread I inherited the tradition of making white soda bread with raisins, currants and caraway seeds in a black iron frying pan from my grandmother and aunts, and continued making...
03.10.2024 Around the Island Shelter Island By the Numbers: March 10, 2024 2-2 Vote at the Town Board t to reject sending a request to Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to grant permission for a special election to fill the vacant seat...
03.09.2024 Around the Island Ready for more trivia tests? Shelter Island’s Quizmaster Bob is back What fast food restaurant used to advertise their product by saying ”Think Outside The Bun?” That’s a typical question you will be asked at Quizmaster Bob DeStefano’s “Battle of...
03.08.2024 Around the Island What is that? March 8, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Roger McKeon was back on top this week, weighing in first via email on last...
03.07.2024 Announcements Shelter Island Reporter Calendar of Events: March 7, 2024 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. Alignment...