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01.23.2025 Announcements

Shelter Island Reporter Community Calendar: Jan. 23, 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...

01.22.2025 Announcements

Shelter Island Historical Society announces new leadership

The Shelter Island Historical Society is adding to its leadership ranks as the 2025 year opens. Vernessa Kingsbury, the new Assistant Director, was first introduced to Shelter Island as...

01.22.2025 Legal Notices

Shelter Island Reporter real estate transfers: Jan. 22, 2025

Listings prepared for Times Review Media Group by Suffolk Vision Inc., dated Nov. 8, 2024. SHELTER ISLAND HEIGHTS (11965) • Gretl Strobel Trust to Honcho Land Holdings LLC, 12...

01.22.2025 Environment

East End duck farm hit with bird flu

The Suffolk County health department announced that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) has been detected in a commercial poultry flock on the East End. The farm is listed on...

01.22.2025 Announcements

Help available for Shelter Islanders to escape the cold: Senior Center weekdays, police any time

With sub-zero temperatures persisting, an alert on the Town website reminds residents the Senior Center at 44 South Ferry Road provides a place to get warm on weekdays between...

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01.22.2025 Sports

Shelter Island JV girls basketball team showing determination and unity

It’s all basketball all the time in the Shelter Island gym these days. The boys and girls High School teams are in the middle of their seasons, while the...

01.21.2025 Police

Shelter Island Police Department blotter: Jan. 21, 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 In court, the charges against them may be reduced or withdrawn or the...

01.21.2025 News

Shelter Island Heights Manager: Planning Board process ‘broken’

The Planning Board was forced to keep the Jan. 14 public hearing open on the 7 Chequit application, which is being fought by neighbors concerned about plans for an...

01.21.2025 Sports

Shelter Island varsity basketball team takes on Southold: Bench steps up to contribute

Coming off a disappointing loss against the Smithtown Christian Knights, the Shelter Island school varsity basketball team faced the Southold Settlers on Wednesday, Jan. 15, at home, and the...

01.20.2025 Around the Island

Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Humans only

I don’t know, but in retrospect, I’m thinking it may have something to do with the harrowing contrast that has been created this Monday, Jan. 20, both Martin Luther...

01.20.2025 Around the Island

The World of Peter Waldner: Jan. 20, 2025

From the mind and pen of Peter Waldner, the Shelter Island Reporter’s award-winning cartoonist.

01.20.2025 News

Frozen MLK Day for Shelter Island: Highway Superintendent reports roads cleared of snow

Today, Jan.20, 2025 — the Martin Luther King Jr. National Holiday and Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C. — Shelter Islanders woke to a snowy morning and temperatures in the...

01.19.2025 News

Shelter Islanders on Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech

Tomorrow, Jan. 20, is the Martin Luther King Jr. National Holiday. In August 2020 a group of Islanders came together to discuss Martin Luther King’s immortal speech. Here’s a...

01.19.2025 Around the Island

Codger’s Shelter Island Column: Hope springs …

This time, hope is 8 years old, weighs 40 pounds and is colored black, brown and white. Her name is Tess. Yes, she’s a dog. Hope is not always...