07.03.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Independence Day 2025 On July 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation: “All through our history, our presidents and leaders have spoken of national unity and warned us that the real...
06.20.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Juneteenth reminds us that freedom is everything On June 19, 1865, Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, and informed its Black residents that they were a free people. The 246 years of slavery that began in Virginia...
05.23.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: A duty to remember 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,...
05.16.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Vote ‘Yes’ on the School budget, History Museum On May 20, voters will make a decision critical to the future of the Shelter Island School District. Will the achievements under the leadership of Superintendent Brian Doelger, Ed.D.,...
05.11.2025 Featured Story Happy Mother’s Day from the Shelter Island Reporter There are cynics who will tell you that Mother’s Day is a conspiracy of florists and candy makers. There might be something to that, with the National Retail Federation...
05.02.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Fight for your library With so much attention focused on the noisier disruptions happening at the federal level — from tariff turmoil to teetering T-bills — it’s easy to overlook some of the...
04.18.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Hope, patience, confidence Even with hideous wars in Ukraine and Gaza — so far away geographically, but as close as your hand holding a cellphone — and a political climate that is...
03.27.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: In memoriam, Herb Sherman There are a couple of old sayings, as we’ve noted before, that sum up our feelings when important people in our community pass away. The ranks are thinning, you...
03.17.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: The duty to remember They were the poorest of the poor, starving, whole families running for their lives, crossing an ocean, trying to escape a catastrophe that had killed more than a million...
03.07.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Washing away Just recently, no shortage of area dog walkers, birders and avid fishermen were a bit taken aback by the unusually low tides along the Peconic Bay shoreline. And their...
02.28.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Those damned kids Young people are materialistic, in love with luxury, have atrocious manners, no respect for others and are obsessed with chatter via texting. The mini-rant above, with just a touch...
02.13.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Hope February is Black History Month, when the nation can pause and learn something about the culture of African Americans and their contributions to our society. It also affords the...
01.31.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Sounding the alarm The numbers are in, and the news isn’t pretty. Virtually all of the area’s volunteer fire departments reported an increase in emergency call responses in 2024, with several hitting...
01.25.2025 Featured Story Reporter Editorial: A Shelter Island Historic Preservation Board Recently, a group of Heights residents, along with Heights Property Owners Corporation General Manager Stella Lagudis, went before the Town Board to pitch the formation of a Shelter Island...
01.17.2025 Featured Story Be a supporter of Shelter Island, support the Reporter The Shelter Island Reporter’s staff received word in June 2024 that the last issue of 2024 would be its last — ever — published as a unique publication by...
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