02.19.2026 Featured Story Reporter Editorial: Preparing for cyber attacks It’s not just second homeowners and deep-pocketed builders who are transforming Shelter Island. Hackers have wormed their way in. Last week, North Ferry Company’s payment system froze under a...
02.07.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: February The smallest in the family, but unique among its siblings for much more than size. It’s the only shape-shifter, changeling and magician, which every now and then becomes larger...
01.26.2026 Featured Story Reporter Editorial: Comp Plan must be a priority — Jan. 26, 2026 We were pleased to see completion of an updated Comprehensive Plan placed high on the Town Board’s list of priorities for this year. A municipality’s Comprehensive Plan dictates policy...
01.16.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: The real winners We congratulate the Shelter Island School varsity boys basketball team for breaking a streak of five years without a single victory on its home court. It was an exhilarating...
01.09.2026 Featured Story Reporter Editorial: The Promise of January One of America’s favorite flowers is the forget-me-not, with the tiny, delicate blossoms all showing their faces in a bunch, like happy school kids beaming together over some classroom...
01.03.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Many choices for Person of the Year We never had any doubt about the large number of people who offer their services to better Shelter Island and who help their neighbors. But it was heartening to...
12.12.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Being prepared According to Merriam-Webster, the word “vulnerable” comes from the Latin vulnus, which in a later Latin transformation became vulnerabilis. English transformed it once again to our “vulnerable,” which the...
12.07.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: The air we breathe An international group of nonprofits under the banner of Climate Trace, which tracks greenhouse gas around the world, has found that there are five “super emitters” on Long Island,...
11.27.2025 Featured Story Reporter Editorial: Thanksgiving 2025 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...
11.23.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Staying close to home It’s that time of year, the Season of Light, with the winter dusk coming alive with the colors of Christmas. Special songs and tunes are heard in supermarket aisles and...
11.14.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Lest we forget This past Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, was Veterans Day. Veterans are in the news for many good reasons, including the number who ran this year for public office, a...
10.31.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: All politics is local The hard-fought campaign here on Shelter Island for supervisor, Town Board, Highway Superintendent and Town Clerk, was at times veering toward the gutter, but all in all it has...
10.25.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter endorsements for Election 2025 Early voting begins Saturday, October 25, and continues through Sunday, November 2, with Election Day on Tuesday, November 4. Your vote is your voice. Here are the Reporter’s endorsements...
10.19.2025 Featured Story Small but mighty This past weekend once again demonstrates why the Shelter Island community is so special. Many were seeking weather updates and taking steps to protect their own families and properties...
10.15.2025 Featured Story Our view: Islanders rally to support one another From the moment Islanders found out their only local source of prescription medicines would be ending that service, most demonstrated what makes this community so special. Yes, there were...
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