01.20.2025 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Humans only I don’t know, but in retrospect, I’m thinking it may have something to do with the harrowing contrast that has been created this Monday, Jan. 20, both Martin Luther...
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...
01.12.2025 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,...
01.06.2025 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 Columns Gimme Shelter: Words, words, words — 2025 edition The Reporter Institute of Language and Semantics (RILS) has, after a unanimous vote by its esteemed Board (sleep-deprived cranks) deemed the 2024 Phrase of the Year as: “Oh, my...
01.02.2025 Around the Island Susan’s Shorelines: Ballooning to Bethlehem As Community News Editor, I’m grateful to be opening 2025 with our first issue of the Reporter. There was a time in mid-2024 when we thought our year-end issue...
01.01.2025 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: Farewell, 2024 One of America’s favorite flowers is the forget-me-not, with the tiny, delicate blossoms all showing their faces in a bunch, like happy school kids beaming together over some classroom...
12.31.2024 Around the Island A happy, healthy New Year from all of us at the Reporter Readers, be of good cheer! The New Year is here — and the wise men and women whose counsel graces our pages through the four seasons have words to...
12.30.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Our columnist files an accident report Bang! There I was, stopped, sitting in a traffic jam on Route 58 in Riverhead two weeks ago, and bang! It felt like my Toyota Prius was collapsing. My...
12.30.2024 Around the Island Moving Forward: Making (and keeping) friends I am going to start with the obvious: Having friends is good. Loneliness is bad. In fact, loneliness is so bad that U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has spoken...
12.21.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: ‘The rage of the age’ The Eugenics Record Office at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research facility in Suffolk County, was pivotal to the spread of eugenics through the United States and...
12.18.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: A Merry Little Christmas It’s Saturday — back a week ago I was torn between Ho-Ho-Humbug and A Pain In the Neck as the working title for this column. Yes, I’d managed to...
12.18.2024 Columns Shelter Island Reporter column: Codger has hope Two weeks ago, nursing distemper from the national election, Codger ran into Gordon Gooding for the first time since he won the empty seat on the Town Board. They...
12.16.2024 Around the Island Love on the Rock: Teenage Sweethearts If you frequent the Historical Society’s Havens Farmers Market on Shelter Island during the summer, you have likely stumbled upon Kim Curko’s By Way of the Farm tent with...
12.16.2024 Columns Remembering Robert He was cool. Cool in that New York, big city way, with a sense of humor that took its time to land. You knew without his boasting that he...
