01.17.2025 Editorial Be a supporter of Shelter Island, support the Reporter The Shelter Island Reporter’s staff received word in June 2024 that the last issue of 2024 would be its last — ever — published as a unique publication by...
01.10.2025 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: An inspiration We never had any doubt about the large number of people who offer their services to make Shelter Island better by helping their neighbors. But it was heartening to...
12.22.2024 Editorial Times Review editorial: What’s up with the drones? As community journalists, the most important part of our job is to do our utmost to ensure we provide accurate information — because a well-informed community is better able...
12.15.2024 Editorial Finally a full Town Board Shelter Island finally has a five-member Town Board with the swearing in of Gordon Gooding Tuesday. Mr. Gooding had a comfortable lead over Republican Tom Cronin and independent Lisa...
12.05.2024 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: A time for generosity The major religions of the world proclaim charity as one of the foundations of their beliefs. In Hebrew, the word for righteousness or justice, is often interchangeable with the...
11.28.2024 Editorial Thanksgiving 2024 What is the truth about Thanksgiving and what is the myth? Of course, there’s nothing more true than the truth, but the myth is also true, if you take...
11.22.2024 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Pulling together Last week, the third part of an innovative and much-needed program of events on an epidemic that is plaguing our youth finished with a survivor telling students of his...
11.17.2024 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Election 2024 Thank God, it’s over. That was the reaction for almost all U.S. citizens when the polls closed Tuesday, Nov. 5, the counting of votes began, and winners were declared...
11.09.2024 Community Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: A way of life With critical issues that will determine Shelter Island’s future in the long and short term, the Reporter has committed itself to hosting a series of public forums. Our first...
10.25.2024 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Make a plan to vote Every election in America is critical, whether at the national, state or local level. Voting is the engine that drives the democratic process. The oft-repeated expression “all politics is...
10.24.2024 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter Endorsements for Election 2024 Lisa Shaw for Town Board Shelter Island voters are fortunate to have three excellent candidates to choose from to fill the vacant seat on the Town Board. Republican Tom...
10.20.2024 Editorial Help us name the 2024 Reporter Person of the Year Every year at this time we use this space to ask Reporter readers to nominate candidates for our Person of the Year issue coming in January. With their heartfelt...
09.08.2024 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: East End September It happens outside, in the stillness of early morning, or as the light shifts in late afternoon and lingers in the tops of trees, that we suddenly see summer...
08.22.2024 Community Shelter Island Reporter announces community forums on the issues of the day We announced several weeks ago that Times Review would cease publication of the Reporter under the present ownership at the end of the year. The economics of our business...
08.17.2024 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: August days Well, we made it. Last Sunday, Aug. 11, we came through “The Dog Days of Summer,” which descended on us on July 3 and lasted the Biblical length of...
