04.20.2024 Around the Island What is that? April 20, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Roger McKeon was on last week’s mystery photo (see right) with a hop, skip and...
04.14.2024 Columns Codger’s column: What’s the deal? Everywhere Codger goes these days, from a power lunch at The Islander to a Friends of Music concert to another summit confab of the Senior Citizens Foundation, he hears...
04.13.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Contaminated Plum Can Plum Island, the 843-acre island, a mile-and-a half off Orient Point, be safely preserved as a “national monument” with public access, as is being advocated by a grouping...
04.13.2024 Around the Island What is that? April 13, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week’s photo of the door to the History Center on South Ferry Road (see...
04.08.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Table manners When I was little, my brother and I ate our “supper” at the kitchen table around 6 o’clock every evening. It made sense. My mother didn’t get home until...
04.07.2024 Around the Island Charity’s Column: Looking ahead A few weeks ago, I changed the only two clocks in the house that still wait for me to spring them forward, enjoyed a brief shot of warm, sunny...
04.03.2024 Around the Island Moving Forward column: The dangers of ‘splitting’ “You’re horrible. I hate you!” says the four-year-old to his mother. As he says this, he can’t think of anything good about the parent who just denied him a...
03.30.2024 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: Easter connections, March 30, 2024 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...
03.24.2024 Around the Island Just Saying: A fan(atic’s) notes Thursday is Opening Day for Major League Baseball. If you are a mildly rabid fan, like me, the days after the World Series are rather gloomy. Opening Day seems...
03.23.2024 Around the Island What is that? March 23, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week Roger McKeon, via email, and Tracy Miller, on our Facebook page, identified the...
03.23.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Technology pathology Am I the only one who has ever found themselves crying tears of frustration in front of a computer? It’s become a comical meme, really — old person flummoxed...
03.21.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Bail-reform battle My first beat as a reporter at the daily Long Island Press was covering cops-and-courts in Suffolk County. Back then, the bail issue was a vexing one in Suffolk,...
03.20.2024 Columns Shelter Islander chronicles an adventure at sea In the early morning hours, there were more than a few times I thought the boat might break apart. The sound of the flat-bottomed boat crashing into the waves...
03.17.2024 Around the Island Joanne Sherman’s Column: It’s in the book Our library has asked people to visit the downstairs book sale room in preparation for new construction. All those books were donated by generous Islanders who not only gave...
03.16.2024 Around the Island Where is that? March 16, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week’s mystery photo (see bottom right) was no mystery to several people who called...