02.21.2025 Around the Island Beating the Shelter Island ‘winter blues’ Anyone who has lived through a Shelter Island winter knows it can at times be grim. Yes, there are no summer crowds, and if you want to go to...
02.17.2025 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Seniors educated on scammers It’s doubtful that there’s a person reading this article who hasn’t had more than one experience with “scammers” — on the phone, online, door-to-door, etc. Scamming has been around...
02.14.2025 Columns Gimme Shelter: Love’s labor’s won, Feb. 14, 2025 Billie Holiday, in one of her more poignant lyrics, wrote that “love will make you drink and gamble, make you stay out all night long.” Which leads me to...
02.09.2025 Around the Island Joanne Sherman’s Shelter Island: Valentine’s Day fish tales “Roses are red. Violets are blue. Every day is Valentine’s day, when I’m with you.” We are casual about Hallmark’s special celebrations. We acknowledge notable occasions, but with little...
02.03.2025 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Dinner at six Yes, “at six.” Though it’s still an homage, in part, to that iconic, star-studded 1934 film, “Dinner at Eight” featuring, among others, John Barrymore (playing Barrymore) and the dazzling...
02.02.2025 Columns Suffolk Closeup: The farming county Suffolk County in recent years has been the only region in the state to increase its number of farms and add farmland, according to a report from the office...
02.01.2025 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: February 2025 The smallest in the family, but unique among its siblings for much more than size. The only shape-shifter, changeling and magician, which every now and then becomes larger, and...
01.26.2025 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Clean energy for Long Island under threat What will be the future of wind turbines off Long Island and Shelter Island and elsewhere along coastal United States with Donald Trump as U.S. president? “We recommitted to...
01.25.2025 Around the Island Moving Forward: The art of marital conflict They say you never know what’s going on in other people’s marriages. Everyone has heard about a so-called loving couple headed for divorce. Then I think about my own...
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...
