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07.04.2020 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: A template for America

As the country celebrates the Fourth of July today, we should recall those important phrases near the beginning of the Declaration of Independence. “We hold these truths to be...

07.02.2020 Editorial

A Note from the Publisher

We are now in Phase 3 of the NY Forward reopening plan and more and more businesses, big and small, are trying to adapt, reinvent and find their way...

06.25.2020 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Recognizing our leaders

The Shelter Island commencement ceremonies this week for the High School Class of 2020 will be historic, which is fitting, since the graduates will always be remembered as a...

06.20.2020 Editorial

Reporter Editorial: Father’s Day 2020

We have a friend who told us a story about his father. He and his younger brother were never embraced by him, although his sisters were always hugged. The...

06.12.2020 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: It happens every day

What a week. It seems like we’ve been saying this for three months as a pandemic, lost jobs, closed businesses, isolation and mass protests have conspired to skew our...

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06.04.2020 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Cool heads and common sense

A new, rapidly spreading virus rages through communities, killing more than 100,000 people, and overwhelming our health care system. Millions are out of work, businesses are shut down. Mass...

05.29.2020 Editorial

Reporter Editorial: Hats off to Shelter Island

What’s good and what’s bad in a community is often easy to detect. Sometimes events and attitudes are not what they seem, but two examples from the past week...

05.25.2020 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Numbers

Public and personal obsessions emerge in a crisis. During this COVID era we’re all living through, we no longer mock germaphobes — we’ve become them. Trying to entangle the...

05.15.2020 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Starting back up

During his daily briefing on Tuesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo laid out specific circumstances under which businesses in the state will be allowed to reopen and life can begin a...

05.07.2020 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Mother’s Day

As if they didn’t have enough to do, a pandemic added an extra burden of work for most mothers. Coordinating their children’s education, working from home and keeping a...

04.28.2020 Editorial

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Fear itself

“So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed...

04.23.2020 Editorial

Reporter editorial: Heroes are among us

All around us, as COVID-19 cuts its way daily through our communities, our state and our country, we see examples of extraordinary selflessness in people who put their own...

04.16.2020 Editorial

Editorial: The COVID era

Has the pandemic put cynics on the run? Has an outpouring of volunteerism, selflessness, kindness and consideration swept away the concept of always believing the worst in people? Have...

04.12.2020 Editorial

A time for peace

The spring moveable feasts of two of the world’s great religions, Easter and Passover, have arrived close together this weekend. One commemorates resurrection and renewal; the other celebrates the...

04.09.2020 Editorial

Editorial: In memoriam

The old adage that thousands killed is a statistic, but the death of an individual is a tragedy, surfaces at times like these because it is true. Shelter Islanders...

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