09.23.2025 Featured Story School fundraiser at Shelter Island’s Goat Hill For the second time this season, Shelter Island Country Club (SICC) welcomed golfers to Goat Hill for a school fundraising outing, this one in support of the Class of...
09.21.2025 Featured Story Joanne Sherman: Tales out of (Sunday) school Author’s note: Names have been changed to protect the innocent who are now fully grown and walk among us. “This isn’t going to end well,” I was warned by...
09.14.2025 Featured Story View From the Bridge: How government should work My professional life has been spent as an engineer, elected official, and merchant marine deck officer. Only rarely have political reflections occupied my thoughts, but lately I find myself...
09.13.2025 Featured Story Codger: Sing louder Codger had been feeling paranoid lately for imagining that the government was coming after him. It’s not as if he actually had dealings with those teen-aged DOGES or the...
09.07.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Friday Night Dialogue: Our East End ospreys On Friday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m., join Jennifer Skilbred, assistant director of Environmental Education at The Group for the East End, as she talks about the magnificent ospreys...
09.07.2025 Featured Story Suffolk Close Up: County Legislature is a pipeline to other posts There’ll be a question for voters on the election ballot in November on whether the terms should be extended from the present two years to four for the 18...
09.06.2025 Featured Story Flowing into a New Season with Suzette We are women of many hats. Business owner. Teacher. Partner. Friend. Daughter. Parent. Planner of meals, schedules, and dreams. Some days, it feels like we change hats faster than...
09.01.2025 Featured Story Where in the World is the Shelter Island Reporter? Seen in Seattle David Klenawicus Jr. brought a copy of the Reporter to Pioneer Square in downtown Seattle, Washington, a stop on his cross-country travels on Amtrak with his mother, Kathryn.
09.01.2025 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: Working for a living Labor Day, America’s end-of-summer celebration, lost its original meaning long ago. The first Monday in September was earmarked Labor Day as an election-year appeasement by President Grover Cleveland. During...
08.31.2025 Featured Story Column: How dangerous is drinking? Remember when they told us that a glass of red wine at night was good for the heart? For me, that and the research that dark chocolate was healthy,...
08.25.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Playtime, Part II B I was just about to start wrestling this column onto the page, when I heard about our administration’s decision to review several of the museums at the Smithsonian. According...
08.23.2025 Featured Story Joanne Sherman’s column: Totally hacked I just read a time-saving, money-saving hack: “Need a moisturizing treatment for your hair? Skip the salon and reach into your refrigerator!” Sounds simple enough, but time-saving, money-saving hacks...
08.18.2025 Featured Story Codger’s Shelter Island Column: Lucky The first time Codger met Michael Coles, 25 years ago, it did not go well for Codger, then working for a different newspaper. He was writing about the unsuccessful...
08.08.2025 Featured Story Moving Forward column: When the news is too awful for kids How do you tell a child that many children their age recently died in a flood? How do you discuss an airplane crash in India? How do you talk...
08.07.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Playtime, Part I One of the very first people I met when I moved here full-time some 43 years ago was Jeannie Lawless. The first thing she asked me, after we’d exchanged...
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