11.27.2025 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: A working holiday The first New Year’s Eve I worked, I got to the garage in the early afternoon and took a seat on the bench in the drivers’ room. The cabbie...
11.27.2025 Featured Story New ‘Sag Saturdays’ series kicks off in Sag Harbor Leave it to an Old Whalers’ town to find new ways to keep its main drag ever-vibrant during the off-season. Starting in December and running through June 2026, get...
11.27.2025 Featured Story Reporter Editorial: Thanksgiving 2025 What is the truth about Thanksgiving and what is the myth? Of course, there’s nothing more true than the truth, but the myth is also true, if you take...
11.26.2025 Featured Story Thanksgiving for a — really — big family My mother, Helen, could turn out the perfect Thanksgiving dinner, all according to her Fannie Farmer cookbook. But the real challenge was the size of the family to be...
11.26.2025 Featured Story Talking Turkey: Sharing an Island with mysterious beings As every Shelter Islander knows, the last Thursday of November isn’t the only Turkey Day — try all 365 of them. And no Islander knows this better than Animal Control...
11.26.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Community Calendar: Nov. 26, 2025 EVERY WEEK AA meetings: Keep It Simple & Early Birds Meeting in person at 7 a.m, Monday through Friday, 8:30 Saturdays. Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. Saturdays 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Church. ...
11.25.2025 Featured Story Grant funds target Tot Lot: Officials see it as most viable project Following long discussions of using federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) money for one or more projects to improve compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Town Board...
11.25.2025 Featured Story Faces of Shinnecock celebrated with new exhibition at Ma’s House Usually, Rebekah Phoenix Wise is the woman behind the camera. But starting today, work from the Shinnecock Indian Nation native, event shutterbug and portrait photographer will be in the...
11.25.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Police Department blotter: Nov. 25, 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 In court, the charges against them may be reduced or withdrawn or the...
11.25.2025 Featured Story Community celebrates Sara Gordon, a champion of preservation In the last rays of a spectacular Gardiners Bay sunset, scores of local elected officials, Peconic Land Trust and Sylvester Manor staff, friends, and family of Sara Gordon gathered...
11.24.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Real Estate Transfers: Nov. 24, 2025 Listings prepared formal East Times Review Media Group by Suffolk Vision Inc., dated Sept. 12, 2025. SHELTER ISLAND (11964) • Anthony H. Palumbo (Referee) & George Pfriender (Defendant) to...
11.24.2025 Featured Story Gardiner’s Bay Country Club site plan approved: Seven conditions set Gardiner’s Bay Country Club (GBCC) officials won the day, with approval by the Town Board of its site plan allowing for a pumping station structure and cistern to be...
11.24.2025 Featured Story Hear, hear for Shelter Island volunteers On a sun-spangled Tuesday morning last week, Shelter Island’s Senior Center and Nutrition Program hosted a “Volunteer Appreciation Brunch” at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church. Volunteers and seniors, many...
11.23.2025 Featured Story New season, new hope for the Island’s basketball team A few things define a Shelter Island winter. Quiet roads, shorter days, colder weather and, of course, basketball. And for the Shelter Island School’s varsity basketball team, coming off...
11.23.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Staying close to home It’s that time of year, the Season of Light, with the winter dusk coming alive with the colors of Christmas. Special songs and tunes are heard in supermarket aisles and...
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