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06.14.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Islander counts his blessings for Father’s Day

Tom Spotteck and his wife Amira say that he takes things as they come, reacting to emergencies by doing what needs to be done without a roadmap, while she’s...

06.14.2025 Featured Story

It’s a grand old flag: Old Glory through the centuries

The United States is probably the most flag-obsessed nation in the world. Other nations, for the most part, reserve the flying of their national colors for government buildings and...

06.14.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: June 14, 2025

LAYING ASIDE DIFFERENCES To the Editor: The Republican Committee was very saddened to hear of Greg Toner’s health challenges and his announcement to step out of the Town Council...

06.13.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island’s signature sporting event, the 10K is ready to run: Registration is open for the great race

Runners and walkers will be stepping out on June 21 for the 46th Annual 10K Run/5K Run/Walk on what organizers have billed as “On the Road to 50.” Returning...

06.13.2025 Featured Story

Gimme Shelter: Check the calendar — Are you superstitious?

Today’s date, Friday, Sept. 13 is known by some as friggatriskaidekaphobia, pronounced frig-uh-trisk-eye-deck-uh-pho-bee-uh (but you knew that) in tribute to the unhappily named Frigga, a Norse goddess. Why Frigga...

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06.13.2025 Featured Story

News from Goat Hill: June 13, 2025

What a week at the Shelter Island Country Club (SICC), as June arrived and the summer golf season kicked into full swing. Perfect summer weather brought golfers out by...

06.12.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island’s Union Chapel’s Homecoming and Heights Memorial

Everyone is welcome to the Union Chapel’s first service of the summer season on Sunday, June 15, at 10:30 a.m. Homecoming/Heights Memorial Sunday is a tradition, as is our...

06.12.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island School District treasurer to bid adieu: Deborah Vecchio prepares for retirement

The impact of Deborah Vecchio’s retirement from the Shelter Island School District after 25 years appears not to have totally taken hold yet. But as she looks ahead at...

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Shelter Island Reporter Community Calendar: June 12, 2025

EVERY WEEK AA meetings: Keep It Simple & Early Birds Meeting in person at 7 a.m, Monday through Friday. Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. Saturdays 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Church. Adult...

06.11.2025 Featured Story

Sylvester Manor to host Archaeology Open House: New dig offers glimpses of times past

Sylvester Manor will welcome the public to an Archaeology Open House on Friday, June 13, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. A team from the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research...

06.11.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island voters face 2nd school budget vote: Temporary solution sought for Pre-K3 students

When the Shelter Island School District 2025-26 school budget failed to garner approval from 60% of voters in May because the proposal went above the state-imposed tax cap, the...

06.11.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Justice Court reports: June 10, 2025

The following cases were adjudicated at Shelter Island Justice Court on March 10, 2025 as reported by the court. Judge Mary Faith Westervelt was on the bench. Except where...

06.10.2025 Featured Story

Greenport carousel ready to spin again on Saturday

Its aging horses are being attended to, its tired innards have been replaced, and Greenport’s storied carousel is scheduled to relaunch this weekend. “The carousel is a hundred years...

06.10.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Police Department blotter: June 10, 2025

Those named in arrest reports or receiving police summonses have not been convicted of a crime. In court, the charges against them may be reduced or withdrawn or the...

06.10.2025 Featured Story

Where in the world is the Shelter Island Reporter: June10, 2025

Bob Raiber and Carol Tosone had their Reporter with them in Sicily, where they’re pictured in front of Mt. Etna 20 hours after its big eruption on June 1. Steam rising from...

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Shelter Islander counts his blessings for Father’s Day

It’s a grand old flag: Old Glory through the centuries

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: June 14, 2025

Shelter Island’s signature sporting event, the 10K is ready to run: Registration is open for the great race

Gimme Shelter: Check the calendar — Are you superstitious?

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News from Goat Hill: June 13, 2025

Shelter Island’s Union Chapel’s Homecoming and Heights Memorial

Shelter Island School District treasurer to bid adieu: Deborah Vecchio prepares for retirement

Shelter Island Reporter Community Calendar: June 12, 2025

Sylvester Manor to host Archaeology Open House: New dig offers glimpses of times past

Shelter Island voters face 2nd school budget vote: Temporary solution sought for Pre-K3 students

Shelter Island Justice Court reports: June 10, 2025

Greenport carousel ready to spin again on Saturday

Shelter Island Police Department blotter: June 10, 2025

Where in the world is the Shelter Island Reporter: June10, 2025

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