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05.27.2022 News

Shelter Island Memorial Day Weekend Schedule of Services

Sunday, May 29 • 4 p.m. Flag placement, graves of deceased veterans in all cemeteries. • Student and community volunteers needed, contact Jimbo Theinert ([email protected]; 631-807-2501) • Monday, May...

05.25.2022 Government

Court-ordered redistricting maps reshape Congressional race once again

Redrawn Congressional and State Senate maps were finalized by a New York state court on Friday, shaking up the congressional race in the 1st District yet again. A previous...

05.24.2022 News

Committee explores geothermal systems, banned by Town Code since 2009

The Water Advisory Committee isn’t ready to suggest elimination of a 2009 ban on geothermal heating and cooling systems. But members are exploring that possibility. Paul Boyce of PW...

05.24.2022 News

They called her ‘St. Helen of Shelter Island’: Posthumous honors accrue for Helen Rosenblum

Even those who knew Helen Rosenblum for years said that, since her untimely death in February, they have learned more about her generosity of spirit than they knew. She...

05.22.2022 News

Students taught how to avoid ticks: Town, Mashomack and school roll out program

To help counter Islanders and visitors being bitten by ticks and developing illnesses, Deer & Tick Committee member Julia Weisenberg has been working with Mashomack Preserve staffers to get...

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05.22.2022 News

Highway Superintendent: Overgrown vegetation threatens safety of walkers, cyclists and drivers

The Highway/Public Works Department will be making a big push this spring to get residents to cut back plants and other obstacles viewed as encroaching on areas where people...

05.21.2022 News

UPDATE: Town removes planks to Ram’s Head Inn dock: No indication of when the decision was made

A controversial dock long in use by past and present operators of the Ram’s Head Inn is unusable as the Memorial Day weekend approaches. Last year, an application for...

05.20.2022 News

First responders honored at Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital

On May 16, dozens of North Fork and Shelter Island first responders gathered under a tent outside the Greenport hospital’s emergency department for a celebratory lunch. This is the...

05.19.2022 News

Food Pantry has been feeding Islanders and those in need since the 1980s

Before there was a van bringing food to Islanders and people who work on the Island, there has long been a Food Pantry operating out of the Shelter Island...

05.18.2022 Community

Lions Club to honor the Pyshers as Citizens of the Year

Embarrassed. That’s what Marilynn and Ken Pysher said they felt when learning they’d been selected as the Lions Club Citizens of the Year. They told Dr. Frank Adipietro, who...

05.18.2022 News

Pridwin nearing reopening

Pridwin operators have scheduled a ribbon cutting on June 17 with plans to ramp up after that to open the entire renovated and expanded complex by the July 4...

05.18.2022 Education

Shelter Island School District budget passes with ease

It was smiles all around from school officials Tuesday night with the announcement from District Clerk Jacki Dunning that the voters had given the $12.4 million budget for the...

05.18.2022 Around the Island

Double celebration at History Center: 100th anniversary of Society

What does it cost to bring history to life? It’s either priceless, or at best, comes at a price that can’t be identified. That’s what Shelter Island Historical Society...

05.17.2022 News

Cases of COVID-19 on the rise once more as spread in Suffolk County reaches ‘high’

As COVID-19 cases steadily climb once more, health experts say the public should remain cautious to current surge, but it’s not yet cause for alarm. In the last two...