02.24.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: The strangest thing The above title is flagrantly risky, especially in an age of such unremitting strangeness. I’m typing this as I await the blizzard we’ve been promised. It will be...
02.23.2026 Featured Story Joanne Sherman’s column: Winter sports … and brave attempts I was glued to the Winter Olympics, which I like more than the summer games. That’s probably because I was raised in Ohio where it’s winter most of the...
02.22.2026 Featured Story Reporter photo Quiz: What is that? Feb. 22, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week’s photo was truly a mystery to our readers (see below). No one responded...
02.15.2026 Featured Story Column: Making and keeping good habits It’s February. That means by now we have broken most, if not all, of our New Year’s resolutions. But before we become too self-critical, this might be a...
02.14.2026 Featured Story What is that? Feb. 14, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Reggie Johnson, Food Manager for Camp Quinipet and Retreat Center, IDed last week’s photo (see...
02.13.2026 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: Check the calendar — Are you superstitious? Here’s a column from the last Friday the 13th in June 2025. Get ready, there’s another one coming up next month. Today’s date, Friday, Sept. 13 is known by...
02.09.2026 Featured Story Codger: A cold season When the barbarians reached the gate last week, actually breaching the North Ferry line, Codger felt the depth of this mean and stony cold season. There was no more...
02.08.2026 Featured Story What is that? Feb. 8, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. We asked North Ferry General Manager Bridg Hunt to give us the rundown on last...
02.04.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: The Cane Mutiny Here I am, a gimpy old widow-woman with a cane, in her 80th year, snowed-in (or was), for the fourth time, in a world that’s imploding hourly. I hear...
01.28.2026 Featured Story Joanne Sherman’s column:Bobby almost slept here When I climbed the stairs to the pharmacy, I had to skooch over because of a man and a little girl sitting on the steps, eating ice cream cones....
01.23.2026 Featured Story Jennifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Jan. 23, 2026 That our democracy could’ve lasted 250 years — our present appallingly disreputable condition notwithstanding — truly begs credulity. Not only does it fly in the face of our species’...
01.17.2026 Featured Story What is that? Jan. 17, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Roger McKeon wasted no time identifying last week’s photo (see below): “It’s the Manhanset Chapel.”...
01.12.2026 Featured Story Codger’s Column: Another year Early in this new year, on the kind of sunny, gin-crisp morning that reminds him why he loves winter on the Island, Codger sat down at the otherwise unoccupied...
01.12.2026 Uncategorized What is that? Jan. 12, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week’s mystery photo (see below) of the top of The Village of Dering Harbor’s...
01.11.2026 Featured Story View From the Bridge: Our vulnerabilities This past December, the Shelter Island Reporter invited me to participate in a community forum on local vulnerabilities. I addressed several issues facing Shelter Island, including wildfires, but I...
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