01.19.2025 Around the Island Codger’s Shelter Island Column: Hope springs … This time, hope is 8 years old, weighs 40 pounds and is colored black, brown and white. Her name is Tess. Yes, she’s a dog. Hope is not always...
01.19.2025 Around the Island Shelter Island By the Numbers Jan. 19, 2025 2 Percent tax cap imposed by New York State could be exceeded for the 2025-26 Shelter Island School budget 200 People estimated to have participated in the Women’s Rally...
01.16.2025 Around the Island 185th anniversary of a Long Island Sound tragedy: Wreck of the Lexington killed 149 One hundred and eighty-five years ago this week, during one of the coldest winters on record, a man named David Crowley washed ashore at Baiting Hollow in Riverhead after...
01.16.2025 Announcements Shelter Island Reporter Community Calendar: Jan. 16, 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...
01.15.2025 Around the Island Beauty and history on Sylvester Manor’s walls As Shelter Island’s historic Sylvester Manor undergoes a major restoration and preservation process, an early step is the replacement of stunning French wallpaper that has adorned the house’s “Ladies...
01.15.2025 Around the Island Wolf Moon rises over Shelter Island The first full moon of 2025 rose through clouds over Bug Light Tuesday evening. January’s full moon is known as the Wolf Moon, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac,...
01.14.2025 Around the Island Charity’s Shelter Island Kitchen: The Year of the Snake In the dead of winter, I often think of a party I attended in Florida in the late 1960s. I was 9, and my mother was a professor at...
01.12.2025 Around the Island Joanne Sherman’s column: ‘If it ain’t broke …’ The two of us have always been the A Team of roadtrips, like Butch and Sundance. But something has changed lately. We’ve become a snarky, bickering Bonnie and Clyde,...
01.12.2025 Around the Island Poetry competition opens, inspired by Shelter Islander Bliss Morehead The Shelter Island Public Library has announced that applications are now welcome for the fourth annual Bliss Morehead Poetry Grant. This grant of $1,000 is awarded each April to...
01.11.2025 Announcements Shelter Island Library Friday Night Dialogues: Through India’s Golden Triangle The “Pink City” of Jaipur with its rosy-hued terra cotta stone buildings. A hotel “floating” in the middle of a man-made lake in Udaipur, where the water comes up...
01.09.2025 Announcements Shelter Island Reporter Community Calendar: Jan. 9, 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...
01.06.2025 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Goodbye, Mr. McPod Yesterday I said goodbye to the mobile storage unit I rented back at the end of July. Such a modest fellow — 8’W, 16’L, 7’H — and clad in...
01.05.2025 Around the Island Resolutions —tips from the Reporter on how to make them work How’s that New Year’s diet going? What? You had Danish and bacon for breakfast, chicken nuggets and fries for lunch and plan on beers and pizza-with-extra-cheese with the gang...
01.04.2025 Announcements Performance of Handel’s Messiah Sing returns to Shelter Island Carrying on a beloved musical tradition on the Island, the Shelter Island Community Chorus invites one and all to the Seventh Annual Handel’s Messiah Sing, on Sunday, Jan. 12,...
01.04.2025 Announcements Shelter Island Lions Club seek Citizen of the Year nominees It’s been said that Shelter Island runs in large measure thanks to people who volunteer their services for the betterment of the community. Look around you. Maybe you know...
