09.24.2020 Editorial Reporter editorial: Deep breaths, please In the hyper-ugly political moment we are living in, it’s certainly part of the climate that someone, or some group, could be so horribly offended by political signs for...
09.16.2020 Editorial Reporter Editorial: 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...
09.11.2020 Editorial Reporter editorial: Here. Now. Sometimes you have to wonder how many times some people have to walk into a wall before they realize, “Hey, that wall is the reason I have a black...
09.04.2020 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Welcome back Even in the upside down world the pandemic has created, some things don’t change. Parents and children find themselves in the emotional states they encounter every time when August...
08.28.2020 Editorial Reporter editorial: Community newspapers, essential to democracy Each year community newspapers across New York State enter their best work in the New York Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest. This year’s winners were announced virtually, since NYPA’s...
08.21.2020 Editorial Reporter editorial: Voting in 2020 Last month, for a couple of weeks running, there were long delays at the Center Post Office, where customers had to wait in lines stretching from the front door...
08.14.2020 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Thanks to the Highway, Police and Fire departments It was one of the strangest tropical storms in memory. Isaias powered out of the Caribbean and ran up the East Coast, leaving destruction and electricity outages in its...
08.07.2020 Editorial Reporter editorial: Thank you, Mr. Zeldin As a tropical storm had Shelter Island in its sights this week, it is apt that the House of Representatives passed a bill that would help save Reel Point...
07.30.2020 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: A fundamental American right In last month’s New York State Democratic primary, nearly 100,000 Long Islanders voted by mail or voted early, before the polls formally opened. This is a remarkable number, and...
07.26.2020 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Paying the price of the pandemic As Long Island continues its recovery from the devastating effects of COVID-19, there are clouds on the near horizon that should alarm everyone. While the pandemic rages on in...
07.17.2020 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: One Island We salute the Islanders who work for the town, the school, the Presbyterian Church’s Food Pantry, the Senior Center, the Shelter Island Action Alliance and other nonprofits who are...
07.13.2020 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorials: Planning on plans Back in 2016, a Planning Board member reminisced at a Town Board work session of picking up a congressman at North Ferry and driving him to some Island function....
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...
