06.05.2026 Featured Story Reporter editorial: Island’s summer is here “Almost heaven, West Virginia,” John Denver sang, leading us to believe that he probably never experienced Shelter Island in the summer. It gets hot, surrounded by salt water and...
05.31.2026 Featured Story Reporter Editorial: Staying safe in summer Along with this season of family, friends and fun come all the other things that make this time of year on the East End so memorable. And yet with...
05.24.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Memorial Day 2026 This page applauded President Donald Trump’s move during his first term to extricate U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan. And we applauded President Joe Biden for making the policy real,...
05.17.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reorter Editorial: Vote ‘Yes’ on the school budget The headlines say Shelter Island is one of only two Suffolk County School Districts to pierce the 2% spending cap with its proposed $13.57 million budget, a 2.07% spending...
05.10.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Mother’s Day 2026 Every year in early May, we devote space here to pay tribute to mothers. (Fathers, you’ll have to wait for June, but we won’t forget you, either.) And at...
04.18.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reproter Editorial: American moments In a Q&A in the April 9 Reporter, with Wyatt Brigham, Shelter Island Class of 2013, we learned that after graduation from Clarkson University, Wyatt was hired by NASA...
04.11.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Two leaps forward for critical care For too long, a stroke on Shelter Island and the North Fork has come with a second emergency: distance. That reality is beginning to change. With Stony Brook Eastern...
03.26.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Spring 2026 How soon we forget that spring is, among other things, the season that requires patienceto appreciate. Officially, the season arrived last Friday, March 20, but seasons are far too...
02.27.2026 Editorial OUR VIEW: Decisions have costs Several weeks have passed since the announcement that the Town planned to bid on a deteriorated house on School Street. The week before the auction, the Town Board passed...
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...
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