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09.04.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Sept. 4, 2025

IMPORTANT MEETING ON WATER To the Editor: Please come and learn how you can do your part to help protect our water quality. This is important and useful information...

09.01.2025 Featured Story

Gimme Shelter: Working for a living

Labor Day, America’s end-of-summer celebration, lost its original meaning long ago. The first Monday in September was earmarked Labor Day as an election-year appeasement by President Grover Cleveland. During...

08.31.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Aug. 31, 2025

TRANSPARENCY To the Editor: Thank you, Cathy Ann Kenny, Treasurer of The Committee for New Leadership, for your recent letter to the Reporter. Your concern has since been addressed...

08.30.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Starting anew

Maybe it’s something in the air — it definitely was this week when it was cool and sunny — or maybe it’s in the way kids seem to be...

08.25.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Aug. 25, 2025

VERY SERIOUS To the Editor: In response to Mark Mobius’ letter last week which questioned my intentions, let me be clear. I have always supported the creation of affordable...

08.25.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Four year terms for County legislators

Two-year terms? Four-year terms? Term limits? No term limits? Clearly, various legislative bodies have reached different conclusions about what works best. Suffolk County Legislators have been elected for two-year...

08.25.2025 Featured Story

Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Playtime, Part II B

I was just about to start wrestling this column onto the page, when I heard about our administration’s decision to review several of the museums at the Smithsonian. According...

08.17.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: What the record will show

“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.” So said Abraham Lincoln, and the sad truth is that we often forget it until forced to confront it. History, in the form...

08.15.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Aug. 15, 2025

TAKING IT SERIOUSLY To the Editor: Every Town Board member has voiced support for Community Housing — especially during election cycles — recognizing its importance to Islanders. But recent...

08.10.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Get involved

A recent report by a Suffolk County task force on “coastal resilience” warned, yet again, that our precious land resources are in danger from rising tides. It estimated sea levels...

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Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Sept. 4, 2025

Gimme Shelter: Working for a living

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Aug. 31, 2025

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Starting anew

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Aug. 25, 2025

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Four year terms for County legislators

Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Playtime, Part II B

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: What the record will show

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Aug. 15, 2025

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Get involved

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