05.13.2024 Columns Codger’s column: Grievances A nice day came and Cur II took Codger for a walk on Wades Beach. It had been a while. Soon enough Cur II will be banned from the...
05.12.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: The Mother Lode Today is Mother’s Day. For an observance that’s been traditionally sweet and sentimental, recently it seems more like a loaded issue. Some people maintain that Mother’s Day, like Valentine’s...
05.07.2024 Columns Season opens at Shelter Island Country Club Shelter Island Country Club President Linda Springer announced the opening of the season at the first meeting and party of 2024 on Sunday, May 5. Linda also expressed a...
05.06.2024 Around the Island Charity’s Column: Untrainable humans and their dogs When South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem wrote about shooting her 14-month-old dog because it misbehaved, my first thought was by those standards, we’d have to shoot every dog we’ve...
05.05.2024 Columns Shelter Island Reporter Column: What’s the deal on TikTok? If you are snoring at the prospect of a TikTok ban, you haven’t been paying attention. Neither was I, probably because there is no one in my immediate family...
05.04.2024 Around the Island What is that? May 4, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Roger McKeon was our only respondent to last week’s quiz (see below), and he was...
04.30.2024 Around the Island Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Built to last If you’ve passed by my house on the corner of Midway and West Neck in the last few weeks, you may have noticed something being built. There’s been some...
04.29.2024 Around the Island Shelter Island By the Numbers: April 29, 2024 3.59 Percent more in state aid will reach the Shelter Island School District for the 2024-25 school year compared with state aid received for the current school year 1-2...
04.28.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: What are you eating? It’s fitting that Suffolk County, with some of the richest soil in the world and still on the New York State’s list of its top agricultural counties (number 4...
04.27.2024 Around the Island What is that? April 27, 2024 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Last week’s photo (see below right) recalled one of the Island’s greatest athletes and a...
04.26.2024 Around the Island Gimme Shelter: Do you know what time it is? I’m one of those people who is never on time. No, not late. I’m always early. Reaching my destination, I have to walk around blocks, drive in circles, drink...
04.21.2024 Around the Island Joanne Sherman’s column: Estate planning The woman stares into the camera, tears glistening. Mom and Dad had passed and left her their home. But that isn’t why she’s crying. No, it’s because before they...
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...