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04.22.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Profile: Stephanie Sareyani

Toward the end of a Reporter interview, Stephanie Sareyani, who retired as art teacher at the Shelter Island School in 2019, wanted to set the record straight: “I’m sure...

03.17.2026 Featured Story

Anders Langendal: From Sweden to Shelter Island and keeping it all in the family

Carpenter Street in Greenport doesn’t have the same bustle typical of Front or Main. Those thoroughfares are often chock-full of shoppers and strollers exploring and enjoying the small-town, maritime-skewed...

02.25.2026 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Profile: Cathy Kenny

“It’s organized chaos. Everybody grabs something,” Cathy Kenny said, recounting the experience of fighting her first house fire. Inspired by the life of her brother Sean, a 25-year veteran...

02.05.2026 Featured Story

Meet Matt Celona, new Farm Manager at Sylvester Manor

Matt Celona’s first day on the job as the new manager of the Sylvester Manor farm was Jan. 20, and even though the hoes and rakes were put away,...

11.20.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Profile: Sherri Cavasini

Sherri Cavasini has been thinking a lot about Brazil lately. Now that she’s retired as manager of the Dering Harbor Inn, she’s decided to live there. Sherri grew up...

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08.18.2025 Featured Story

A dedication to service: Shelter Island F.D. Chief Max Pelletier

It was mid-afternoon in the summer of 2013, and Maximilian Pelletier was at home after work, dressed in gym shorts, on a sleepy Shelter Island day. Suddenly he noticed...

08.15.2025 Featured Story

Remembering Michael Coles: A very full life captured in the Islander’s memoirs

Mr. Coles passed away on Aug. 4, 2025 This story appeared in the October 9, 2020 issue of the Reporter. When Islander Michael Coles’ book “A Boyhood in Wartime...

07.10.2025 Featured Story

A Shelter Islander finds a path to a healthier life

A twist of fate has redirected Anya Du Vivier, 34, from her initial pursuit of a career as a lawyer focused on immigration and adoptions to a focus on...

06.16.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Profile: Jalill Carter, Shelter Island’s newest police officer

Jalill Carter, Shelter Island’s newest police officer, had his first experience of a ferry when he was 16. Traveling from upstate New York, he was with his mother and...

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...

05.28.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Profile: Dave McGayhey, protecting and defending the Island since 1985

There have been two homicides in Shelter Island history and in his 40 years of service, Police Officer David McGayhey responded to both. When he was off-duty one day...

01.01.2025 Featured Story

Gina Kraus is the Shelter Island Reporter’s Person of the Year

When Gina Kraus was just 7 years old, she took charge to stand up for what she believes, and continues to do the same to this day. That’s how...

11.05.2024 Featured Story

A Shelter Island Vietnam veteran remembers: George Rowland, and a war that changed everything

In 1969, George Rowland, a fourth-generation Islander, graduated from Shelter Island High School. He was an ambitious youth, especially drawn to art and mechanical drawing, and participated in school...

10.09.2024 Featured Story

Island Profile — Bill McGorry: Friends, family and Shelter Island

In June 1969, Bill McGorry, a 30-year-old ad salesman from Bayside, Queens came to Shelter Island — a place he never knew existed — at the invitation of a...

10.01.2024 Featured Story

George Hubbard: Life on both sides of the bay

At 7:15 a.m., every Monday through Saturday, George Hubbard is awake in the home in Greenport he shares with his wife Kathleen, a teacher’s aide at Greenport School. The...

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