12.17.2025 Featured Story Varsity basketball team scores big: Notch first win of the young season The Shelter Island varsity boys basketball team record stood at four losses and no wins on Monday, leading into its matchup against the Our Savior New American School (OSNAS)...
12.17.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter partial obituary: Andrew Allen Ogar Andrew Allen Ogar of Shelter Island passed away on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025. He was 46 years old. The family will receive friends on Friday, Dec. 19 from 2...
12.17.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Police Department blotter: Dec. 17, 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 In court, the charges against them may be reduced or withdrawn or the...
12.16.2025 Featured Story Cornucopia shares its final gifts: Memories and friendships made down a quiet lane “I just want to say thank you,” is the first comment from Mary Lou Eichhorn on her impending retirement from Cornucopia, fittingly thinking of others, as a shop devoted...
12.16.2025 Featured Story UPDATE: Islander saved in off-shore rescue recalls ordeal Three lives were saved Monday — two human and one canine — rescued from below freezing water off Shell Beach through quick, efficient and coordinated work by all of...
12.16.2025 Featured Story Phil Power elected Shelter Island Fire Commissioner Running unopposed, Phil Power was handily elected as a fire commissioner last week. The vote by paper ballots secured 26 votes for Mr. Power and a single write-in vote...
12.16.2025 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Let it snow The snow still looked pretty Monday morning, with early sun slanting across my mostly pristine white yard. Yesterday, though, was just plain magical, like a Jacqui Lawson greeting card....
12.15.2025 Featured Story Love on the Rock: Two Christmases, the Red Trail and Moe’s Lidia and Schuyler Needham didn’t meet on Shelter Island, but the Island has a way of calling people home. Their path — from a small engineering college to shipyards,...
12.15.2025 Featured Story Keeping track of history: How Riverhead’s station and the East End fed New York A new installment in our series on the role of trains changing the East End Before refrigerated trucks and interstate highways, freshly dug potatoes and fresh seafood from Shelter...
12.15.2025 Featured Story Shunning the darkness for light: 12th annual Menorah Lighting Menucha Lerman, 11, was helping set up the tables at the 12th annual Hanukkah celebration in front of Police Department headquarters in the Center on Sunday, December 14. In...
12.14.2025 Featured Story Christmases recalled, in darkness and light Here’s a column from Susan Carey Dempsey, which first appeared a few Decembers ago.. Discussing Christmas memories recently, I began to think that it’s hard to select a single...
12.14.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Justice Court: Dec. 14, 2025 The following cases were adjudicated at Shelter Island Justice Court on Oct. 20, 2025 as reported by the court. Judge Stanley I. Birnbaum was on the bench.Except where indicated,...
12.14.2025 Featured Story Snow falling, total could be 3 to 6 inches: Highway crews working the storm Shelter Highway Department Crews were called in at 4 a.m. on Sunday and out on the roads an hour later to battle the first significant snowfall of the season,...
12.13.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Photo Quiz: What is that? Dec. 12, 2025 If you know, let us know. Send your responses to [email protected] or phone 631-275-1859. Roger McKeon emailed us as soon as he got his paper to identify last week’s...
12.13.2025 Featured Story O Christmas tree! Chase Creek lighting celebrates 42 years One of the most delightful Shelter Island Christmas traditions is the setting up and lighting of the Christmas tree in the middle of Chase Creek that brings beauty to...
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