08.13.2026 Featured Story Always lending a hand Helping someone out is an everyday experience for Mark Kanarvogel, the Island’s Emergency Medical Services chief. Here he’s giving a lift to Boze the Fox — we learned his...
08.12.2026 Featured Story Joane Sherman’s column: When you’re hot you’re hot There was a time when all I noticed were two types of weather: hurricane and not a hurricane. These days, all I think about is the weather. Especially hot...
08.10.2026 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: New research on ticks With ticks and tick-borne diseases now a national plague in the United States, SciLine, an educational program based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, last month...
08.09.2026 Featured Story Guest Column: A language all its own I thought I was volunteering to help children who had experienced unimaginable loss. I never expected they would help me rediscover something I thought I’d left behind years ago....
08.08.2026 Featured Story View from the Bridge: The sailing experience Jonathan Russo’s Afloat column in the July 9 Reporter brought back a flood of memories from another era of boating, and sailing in particular. Jonathan has a wonderful way...
08.02.2026 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: American Fried Have you noticed the strange way some girls and young women have been talking for the last several years?...
07.28.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Timing Bad timing, good timing: everyone over the age of six knows — from experience, mind you — that, as...
07.26.2026 Featured Story Guest Column: Legal realities behind 8647 inquiries The recent visit by the Secret Service to the homes of certain residents of eastern Long Island raises troubling...
07.26.2026 Featured Story Column: New York was wrong on 4-poster policy A “roadblock” is what veteran Suffolk County journalist Peter Boody, a former reporter and editor, and now a public official, calls the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s...
07.19.2026 Featured Story Moving forward: The joys and stress of summer guests When I was a kid visiting my aunt and uncle in Southold, they had a sign in the guest room that said, “Guests and Fish stink after three days.” ...
07.18.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Idioms’ delight As I finish up this column, hope you’re “all ears,” because this comes “straight from the horse’s mouth:” Nobody “dropped the ball” as far as the Island fireworks were...
07.14.2026 Featured Story Joanne Sherman’s column: Hissers, dingers and bongers Have you seen the handwritten sign at the Center post office? “Please ring bell,” the sign says, with a squiggly arrow pointing down to the hand-drawn facsimile of a...
06.22.2026 Uncategorized Moving Forward column: Greed Madonna’s 1985 anthem “Material Girl” looks very quaint in 2026. As she sang that “the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right,” I am thinking that...
06.21.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Voices on Father’s Day 2026 What is the most important lesson your father taught you and what memory of your father still makes you smile? PETER WALDNER My father never stopped learning, growing, and...
06.21.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Midsummer madness Today, Sunday, June 21, at 4:24 a.m., marked the summer solstice, that moment when the sun is at its highest point in the sky, resulting in the maximum amount...
06.14.2026 Featured Story Joanne Sherman’s column: You didn’t ask, but… Congratulations to the class of 2026. Not counting pre-K, you’ve been in school for 13 years — 72.2% of your entire life. WOW! That’s a lot of learning. Some...
06.13.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Photo Quiz: What is that? June 13, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Regina Hartley was happy to respond to last week’s photo ID question (see below): “It’s...
06.10.2026 Uncategorized Union Chapel opens this Sunday, June 14: Homecoming/Heights Memorial service Everyone is welcome to the first service of the Union’s Chapel summer season on Sunday, June 14, at 10:30 a.m. Homecoming/Heights Memorial Sunday is a tradition, as is our...
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