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04.11.2021 Around the Island

Registration open for Time Travelers: Youth history program to return this summer

Registration opened, April 1 for the Historical Society’s Time Travelers Youth Program for this summer. Visit shelterislandhistorical.org to register. This year’s Time Travelers Youth Program comprises four different weeks,...

04.11.2021 Around the Island

An evening of Bliss

“It’s time to stow the snow boots and give spring a great big hug,” said the late Bliss Morehead, in anticipation of a previous April poetry reading at the...

04.08.2021 Announcements

Shelter Island calendar of events — April 8

EVERY WEEK Note: Shelter Island Public Library Programs are online; visit silibrary.org to register. Art/Rich Poetry Roundtable: Tuesday, 4 p.m., Library. CoreSyn with Trent: Tuesdays and Saturdays, at 8...

04.06.2021 Around the Island

Jenifer’s Journal: An inside job

When I was a kid, a standard stuffer I’d often find in my stocking would be one of those little diaries, with four tiny lines allotted for each day...

04.06.2021 Around the Island

Artists sought to raise confidence in vaccine: Poster competition with cash prizes

A coalition of artists, art councils and community leaders have organized a poster competition to raise confidence in the COVID-19 vaccine, specifically engaging with ethnic and cultural minority communities....

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04.06.2021 Around the Island

Friday Night Dialogue: “Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood”

It would not be an exaggeration to say that without the thousands of migrant workers who traveled from the Midwest to Suffolk County, between World War II and the...

04.04.2021 Around the Island

We hear around the Island that…

The Shelter Island High School’s National Honor Society raised $926 in total, nearly double last year’s, for the Muscular Dystrophy Association through its Shamrock sales. The NHS sends out...

04.04.2021 Around the Island

Tree Talk: Battling the vines

Several months ago, I wrote a column about the beauty of deciduous trees in winter. The colder months also reveal something less beautiful: how vines severely impact our trees....

04.03.2021 Around the Island

Charity’s column: A houseplant destined for greatness

On March 13, 2020, I left a much-loved 50-year old houseplant standing near the bedroom window of my New York apartment and didn’t return for two months. I left...

04.02.2021 Around the Island

A march of many battles

I’d never seen her before. We’d never met. I didn’t know her. But she was approaching me with a pointed arm as if to say “You. Stop.” I was...

04.02.2021 Around the Island

‘Pysanka’ Easter eggs shown at library: Islanders master an ancient art form

A collection of stunning Easter eggs decorated in the ancient Pysanka tradition is on view at the Shelter Island Public Library, courtesy of the Cava family that created them....

04.02.2021 Around the Island

Shelter Island calendar of events: April 2-9

03.31.2021 Around the Island

Jenifer’s Journal: Ram’s Head reverie

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever. — Walt Disney News of the sale of the Ram’s Head Inn has brought me to my childhood, and...

03.30.2021 Announcements

A new arrival

Angelina Bernal was born on July 25, 2020 at 11:30 p.m. at Southampton Hospital. She weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces and was 21 inches long. Her parents are Lila...

03.30.2021 Around the Island

Venison available at recycling center and virtual cooking lesson set for Wednesday

Venison is available at the refrigerated unit at the town Recycling Center, and if you want to know how to cook it, the town has you covered. A Wednesday...

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Registration open for Time Travelers: Youth history program to return this summer

An evening of Bliss

Shelter Island calendar of events — April 8

Jenifer’s Journal: An inside job

Artists sought to raise confidence in vaccine: Poster competition with cash prizes

More in Around the Island

Friday Night Dialogue: “Long Island Migrant Labor Camps: Dust for Blood”

We hear around the Island that…

Tree Talk: Battling the vines

Charity’s column: A houseplant destined for greatness

A march of many battles

‘Pysanka’ Easter eggs shown at library: Islanders master an ancient art form

Shelter Island calendar of events: April 2-9

Jenifer’s Journal: Ram’s Head reverie

A new arrival

Venison available at recycling center and virtual cooking lesson set for Wednesday

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