01.14.2025 Around the Island Charity’s Shelter Island Kitchen: The Year of the Snake In the dead of winter, I often think of a party I attended in Florida in the late 1960s. I was 9, and my mother was a professor at...
01.12.2025 Around the Island Poetry competition opens, inspired by Shelter Islander Bliss Morehead The Shelter Island Public Library has announced that applications are now welcome for the fourth annual Bliss Morehead Poetry Grant. This grant of $1,000 is awarded each April to...
01.11.2025 Announcements Shelter Island Library Friday Night Dialogues: Through India’s Golden Triangle The “Pink City” of Jaipur with its rosy-hued terra cotta stone buildings. A hotel “floating” in the middle of a man-made lake in Udaipur, where the water comes up...
01.05.2025 Around the Island Resolutions —tips from the Reporter on how to make them work How’s that New Year’s diet going? What? You had Danish and bacon for breakfast, chicken nuggets and fries for lunch and plan on beers and pizza-with-extra-cheese with the gang...
01.04.2025 Announcements Performance of Handel’s Messiah Sing returns to Shelter Island Carrying on a beloved musical tradition on the Island, the Shelter Island Community Chorus invites one and all to the Seventh Annual Handel’s Messiah Sing, on Sunday, Jan. 12,...
01.01.2025 Around the Island Winter — or some would say ‘vinter’ — food Boneless pork loin roast is probably the most popular type of roast you’ll find. Not to be confused with pork tenderloin. Pork loin offers a larger size, robust flavor...
12.31.2024 Around the Island A happy, healthy New Year from all of us at the Reporter Readers, be of good cheer! The New Year is here — and the wise men and women whose counsel graces our pages through the four seasons have words to...
12.28.2024 Around the Island Training with Trent: Build strength, beat stress Question from Brendan B.: Hey, Trent, dude, the holidays are super stressful. Tell me, can I actually reduce stress with diet and exercise? If so, how? Answer: Absolutely, Brendan....
12.22.2024 Around the Island A pause, and applause, for an Irish classic at Christmas: Soda Bread Traditional Irish Soda Bread consists of flour, salt, baking soda and buttermilk. That’s it. The baking soda needs the acid of the buttermilk. But, over the years, baking powder...
12.21.2024 Around the Island In the Kitchen with Charity: The feast of seven fishes in one fragrant bowl When Julia Child made television food history with The French Chef in the 1960s, she introduced Americans to bouillabaisse, the rustic fish chowder of maritime France. The dish gets...
12.04.2024 Around the Island Mashomack Manor House open for celebration: All are invited for holiday festivities The historic Manor House in The Nature Conservancy’s Mashomack Preserve, decorated and lit for the holidays, will open its doors to welcome all on Saturday, Dec. 14, from 3...
12.03.2024 Around the Island Celebrating a Shelter Island artist Congratulating photographer Adam Bundy, second from right, on the opening of his show at The Chequit on Saturday are, from left, Lori Lancaster, Kristen Lynch, and Amy Cococcia. Here’s...
11.26.2024 Announcements Adam Bundy photography exhibition at Chequit Adam Bundy’s latest photography exhibit will be at The Chequit and will open with a reception on Saturday, Nov. 30, from 3 to 5 p.m. Adam’s show and The...
11.23.2024 Around the Island In the kitchen with Charity: Recipes for a Relevant Thanksgiving The customs of Thanksgiving — watching a parade of enormous balloons and helping to roast a bird that barely fits in the oven — are the foundations of my...
11.14.2024 Around the Island Comedy film screening —‘Frieda’s Got the Spirit’ — at Shelter Island School on Wednesday, Nov. 20 The third installment of a comedy film trilogy, “Frieda’s Got the Spirit” will be shown at 7 p.m. at the Shelter Island School auditorium on Wednesday, Nov. 20. It...
