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03.18.2026 Featured Story

Women’s History Month: Shelter Island’s Elizabeth Havens

Built in 1743, Havens House, now home to the Shelter Island History Museum (SIHM), was also once home to our Women’s History Month celebrant, Elizabeth Havens (1742-1828). In her...

03.17.2026 Featured Story

Anders Langendal: From Sweden to Shelter Island and keeping it all in the family

Carpenter Street in Greenport doesn’t have the same bustle typical of Front or Main. Those thoroughfares are often chock-full of shoppers and strollers exploring and enjoying the small-town, maritime-skewed...

03.16.2026 Feature Story

Column: What’s with mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law?

It seems like men have been making jokes about their mothers-in-law forever — remember that car decal, “Mother-in-law in trunk”? The conventional wisdom was that the mom was so...

03.15.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island students selling shamrocks to support Muscular Dystrophy Association

At this time every year, students in Shelter Island’s National Honor Society sell shamrocks to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA). MDA provides health care and support...

03.14.2026 Featured Story

Call for organ donors: Islander needs a partial liver transplant

Shelter Island resident Amy McGorry, who’s been fighting two chronic liver diseases through most of her life, is now in dire need of a living liver donor, type O+....

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02.23.2026 Featured Story

Camp for grieving kids returns to Shelter Island

The little boy had a question for his mother: “Why am I the only person who doesn’t have a dad?” And the mother, struck suddenly again by grief, had...

02.19.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Community Calendar: Feb. 19, 2026

EVERY WEEK AA meetings: Keep It Simple & Early Birds Meeting in person at 7 a.m, Monday through Friday, 8:30 Saturdays. Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. Saturdays 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s...

02.18.2026 Featured Story

Annual Shrove Tuesday and Pancake Supper at St. Mary’s

Parishioners and neighbors of many faiths gathered Tuesday evening at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Shelter Island for the annual Shrove Tuesday pancake supper, marking the eve of Lent. ...

02.18.2026 Featured Story

Observing Black History on Shelter Island

As Black History Month is observed through the month of February, Shelter Island’s Sylvester Manor comes into focus as the repository of history and research into a significant period...

02.15.2026 Featured Story

The Reporter goes to the Olympics

Two year-round Shelter Island residents are volunteers at the Milan-Cortina Olympics this month. Benigno Gonzalez, right, in his full-volunteer uniform, holds the Reporter, while his husband David Daly snaps...

02.14.2026 Featured Story

Joining a group that always has your back: Fire Department mentors show the way for recruits

Before Maximilian Pelletier, then 20, joined the Shelter Island Fire Department in November 2013, he had witnessed and quickly responded to a fire on his own, and was asked...

02.12.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island ‘Souper Bowl’ Stars

Donations of canned and packaged goods to stock the Island’s Food Pantry were collected and shelved by National Honor Society students. Above from left, Liam Sobejana, Alexis Bartilucci, Makayla...

02.09.2026 Featured Story

Mashomack open for winter visitors: Looking ahead to summer activities

The brutally cold start of February finds most Islanders huddled around their hearths — whether the big electronic one or the good old-fashioned wood-burning kind — but soon enough,...

02.06.2026 Featured Story

National Honor Society taps new members

On Sunday, Feb. 1, the Shelter Island High School Chapter of the National Honor Society inducted 11 new members at a luncheon at the Rams Head Inn. Eight members...

02.05.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Community Calendar: Feb. 5, 2026