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...
06.08.2026 Featured Story Codger’s column: A talent show If Shelter Island ever decided to stage a talent show with world-class resident headliners, it might go something like this, according to Codger: Friday night, a superb concert by...
06.07.2026 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: John Steinbeck’s House Suffolk County has been the home of many literary giants, including Walt Whitman, James Fenimore Cooper, Kurt Vonnegut, James Jones, Truman Capote, Betty Friedan, Edward Albee, E.L. Doctorow, Joseph...
06.06.2026 Featured Story D-Day, and the baby of the family He was the man I never knew, the man who gave me my name. He was brought closer to me through a phone call I got one afternoon. An...
06.06.2026 Featured Story What is that? June 6, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Ed Hydeman wrote to us giving the correct location of last week’s mystery photo (see...
06.03.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: Of thee we sing A week ago today a surprising, heartwarming number of visitors and residents showed up under a canopy of gray, dripping clouds, braving the persistent drizzle to honor Memorial Day....
05.31.2026 Featured Story View From the Bridge: Submarines and governance complexities Recently I encountered two former Shelter Island supervisors, men who served years apart and under very different circumstances. One conversation occurred before a funeral service for a local resident,...
05.30.2026 Featured Story What is that, May 30, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Only Daniel Calabro responded to last week’s photo (see below), with two posts to our...
05.29.2026 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: The rich maritime history of Suffolk County “Long Island Naval History in Wartime” was the title of a presentation by Bill Bleyer last week at the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum. Bleyer is the author...
05.28.2026 Featured Story Column: What’s become of gambling? How quaint it used to be. When I was a kid there was just Las Vegas. Grownups could go out there and play blackjack or craps and gape at...
05.26.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: A letter to a graduate Dear James I made it home alive! After the sun-struck whirlwind of your college commencement weekend (I get teary all over again just typing this) where I started...
05.25.2026 Featured Story Who do you remember or carry with you on this Memorial Day? Father Peter DeSanctis My father served in combat in Central Europe during World War II. Like many of that generation, he carried his service quietly. Memorial Day reminds us...
05.23.2026 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: A Memorial Day weekend memory A few years ago, a few days before Memorial Day, I ran into a guy, Glenn Addario, who had left his home in Coram and was on his way...
05.23.2026 Featured Story What is that? May 23, 2026 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week’s photo (see below) is a mystery to many, but not Ed Hydeman, who...
05.22.2026 Featured Story The Afloat Column: Winds of Change Every so often the house committee at the Shelter Island Yacht Club (SIYC) refreshes the furniture in its various rooms. If they are planning on doing that for the...
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