01.20.2023 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Saving Plum Island It was a victory for all of us who live on the East End and southern New England when the federal omnibus spending bill passed by Congress last month...
01.08.2023 Editorial Editorial: LaLota calls for Santos investigation The national embarrassment that is George Santos grows worse by the day. More and more of his lies keep pouring out, to the point where it’s difficult to keep...
01.06.2023 Editorial 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...
12.17.2022 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: A time to give 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...
12.08.2022 Editorial Turn away from hatred and violence In a town long welcoming to people of varying ethnic backgrounds, a shocking report was revealed in a single sentence in a police report in early November. Regrettably, it...
12.03.2022 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Keep the cash here Family-run businesses are the backbone of the Shelter Island economy. And these businesses — some new, some decades old — are a large part of what makes the Island...
11.24.2022 Editorial Thanksgiving 2022 This Thanksgiving, like every year if we’re lucky, we’ll sit with loved ones and feast, giving thanks for the bounty of our tables, and remembering all we have to...
11.11.2022 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Veterans Day 2022 Today, Friday, Nov. 11, is Veterans Day. This small town has upheld a tradition, from the Revolutionary War to the present day, of men and women joining the nation’s...
10.30.2022 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: It’s time 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...
10.28.2022 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorials, Oct. 28, 2022 Recognition and honor To make a community vibrant, relevant and strong requires many things, but few qualities are as important as recognizing and honoring the people who continue to...
10.13.2022 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: The best among us We’ve referred before in this space to a famous text from the Talmud about the importance of helping others, where it is spelled out, simply and beautifully, that a...
10.06.2022 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Help us name the 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...
09.29.2022 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Counting blessings Distraction from good things happening right under our noses defines this era of data overload, with information coming at us with fire hose relentlessness and force, most of it...
09.24.2022 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Saving our heritage There’s good news in the movement to restore two of the Island’s great natural resources — scallops and the health of our surrounding waters. Islander Kate Rossi-Snook has been...
09.15.2022 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter: Affordable housing facts The final plan being developed by the Community Housing Fund Advisory Board and Town consultant Kathryn Eiseman may not be complete. But enough has come forward to put to...
