04.19.2026 Feature Story Joanne Sherman: Pant and Water I was summoned to the kitchen window. “Look there, in the middle of the yard. I think your Miracle Tree has finally started to grow.” Oh, no. I wasn’t...
04.19.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: April 19, 2026 If it’s April, it’s “Poetry Month,” and I can hear the sighs and tacit “So whats?” already. So what? Well, I’ll tell you. Three years ago this month, I...
04.18.2026 Featured Story What is that? April 18, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Islanders are eager for summer days at the beach, judging from the great response to...
04.14.2026 Featured Story Gone Fishing: Opening the season Here’s the debut of our new fishing column: Henry Cruise, proprietor. This time of year, as rising spring temperatures slowly force back the last vestiges of winter’s chill, the...
04.13.2026 Uncategorized Nancy Green’s column: Having a pet If you’ve never owned one you can’t fully understand. But once they are brought into your home and life, they are yours to love. One could say, of course,...
04.12.2026 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: More than a game There are only two unassailable certainties in life, and they’re not that nonsense about death and taxes. I, and everyone I love, will never die, and neither will Ted...
04.10.2026 Featured Story What is that? Reporter’s Photo Quiz, April 10, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Roger McKeon was correct once more in our weekly mystery photo quiz, naming last week’s...
04.08.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Springing into action I’ll admit the headline is a tad cliché, but “Springtime,” kind of a uber-cliché itself, is riddled with them. Think of the countless song titles: “Spring is Here,” “It...
04.06.2026 Featured Story Codger’s column: Woofless Codger and Crone have been without a live-in dog for almost a year now, longer than any time in their almost 30 years together. That, the frigid weather and...
04.04.2026 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: Easter connections I must have been about 10, when a few days before Ash Wednesday, my mother asked me what I was planning to give up for Lent. Faking a thoughtful...
04.04.2026 Featured Story Cronin’s Column: Reckoning in Anchored Beacon Some years ago, while single-handing my Stone Horse cutter Eidos down east, I dropped the hook in the tiny harbor of a little-known island, Anchored Beacon. The visit proved...
04.01.2026 Featured Story What day is it today? Be careful of what you see and hear — April 1, 2026 Been fooled yet? (Maybe by Jonathan Russo’s early morning column?) We don’t mean over the course of your life — only a liar says they’ve never been taken —...
04.01.2026 Columns Afloat: A matter time Spring is still off to windward, yet the scuttlebutt on the waterfront is already freshening. Sources close to the source have told us that heirs of Pogatticut, grand Sachem...
03.25.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island voices: What is the first sign of spring for you? SARA GORDON OF SHELTER ISLAND HEIGHTS The ospreys — returning to the many nests that line our Island coastlines. That’s whenyou know spring is here. ED SHILLINGBURG OF WEST...
03.25.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Alphabet soup In the I’ve always been a fidgeter, a hair-twirler, a nail-biter — my foot always bouncing when I’m sitting still. An inveterate procrastinator by age 8, by high...
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