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12.03.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Police Department blotter: Dec. 3, 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 In court, the charges against them may be reduced or withdrawn or the...

12.03.2025 Featured Story

Dory ownership dispute goes to court

The death of long-time Dory owner Jack Kiffer on Oct. 15 did not quiet the controversy that seemed to follow the genial and often combative man who presided over...

12.02.2025 Featured Story

‘Prescribed fire’ at Mashomack through Dec. 20: A tool to regenerate woodlands and reduce risk of wildfire

Seeing rising towers of gray and white smoke soaring skyward accompanied by the sharp odor of burning wood signals danger heading your way. But on occasion, this scenario is...

11.30.2025 Featured Story

Peconic Landing nursing facilities rank among nation’s best

The nursing facilities at Peconic Landing, one of Southold Town’s largest employers, earned top ratings from U.S. News & World Report, a distinction achieved by fewer than one in...

11.30.2025 Featured Story

200-plus people race into the bay: 16th annual Turkey Plunge raises funds for library

Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. Wind: Out of the northwest at 7 to 10 mph, gusting as high as 21 mph. Air temperature: 39 degrees. Wind chill: 31 degrees. Peconic...

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11.29.2025 Featured Story

Mark your calendars: Community Forum to discuss multiple threats and safeguards for Shelter Island

A fire, driven by high winds, fueled by acres of Shelter Island woodlands, jumps to residential neighborhoods and races through, incinerating houses. A Category Five Hurricane barrels up the Eastern...

11.28.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Robert Jack Ruttenberg

Robert Jack Ruttenberg died in Miami, Florida on Friday, Nov. 21, at the age of 84. Bob was born in Pittsburgh, Penn., to Morry and Berde Ruttenberg (née Schenken)...

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...

11.26.2025 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...

11.25.2025 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

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

Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Mildred ‘Mickey’ Rein

Mildred “Mickey” Rein, a part-time Shelter Island resident for more than 60 years, died of natural causes in September 2025 at her home in Boston, Mass. She lived two...

11.22.2025 Featured Story

Marine Rescue Center seeks volunteers to save sea turtles

Sea turtle cold stun season has officially begun for Long Island. From November to February, volunteers with the New York Marine Rescue Center (NYMRC) in Riverhead patrol local beaches,...

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