03.13.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Loose ends Almost two weeks ago, writing in my other journal, I wrote the date on the top line with celebratory hearts, and flowers all around. It was my younger daughter’s...
03.10.2026 Featured Story Codger’s Column: Safety first Crone said it first: “I don’t feel safe any more.” That puzzled Codger at the time. After all, wasn’t this still America with its checks and balances, due process,...
03.06.2026 Feature Story Suffolk Closeup: Knockout punch to environmental protection Suffolk County’s Lee Zeldin is the key figure in decimating the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump. The New York Times headlined a front-page lead story last...
02.28.2026 Columns No nukes The second in a series of “Forums for a Nuclear-Free New York” was just held to counter the drive by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) to make New York the...
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’...
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