12.19.2025 Featured Story Moving forward: The anguish of family estrangement This holiday season brings joy to many and sadness to some. But those suffering from family estrangement experience a different kind of sadness. It’s a loss that’s often incomprehensible,...
12.12.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Dec. 12, 2025 CLARIFY THE FACTS To the Editor: In her Dec. 4 letter, Kathleen DeRose, with no basis in fact, cites the Library as an example of runaway costs and mounting...
12.12.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Being prepared According to Merriam-Webster, the word “vulnerable” comes from the Latin vulnus, which in a later Latin transformation became vulnerabilis. English transformed it once again to our “vulnerable,” which the...
12.08.2025 Featured Story Codger’s Column: Vulnerable thoughts Codger and Crone are between dogs right now, waiting for that next Cur to fill the place of Rudy and Milo and Apollo and Tess. Each of them arrived...
12.07.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: The air we breathe An international group of nonprofits under the banner of Climate Trace, which tracks greenhouse gas around the world, has found that there are five “super emitters” on Long Island,...
12.04.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Dec. 4, 2025 THANK YOU To the Editor: The numbers are in for the Shelter Island Fall 5K and together we raised over $60,000 for our friends and neighbors of the East...
11.27.2025 Featured Story Reporter Editorial: Thanksgiving 2025 What is the truth about Thanksgiving and what is the myth? Of course, there’s nothing more true than the truth, but the myth is also true, if you take...
11.14.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Lest we forget This past Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2025, was Veterans Day. Veterans are in the news for many good reasons, including the number who ran this year for public office, a...
11.13.2025 Featured Story Codger’s column: Post-election blues The results of last week’s Shelter Island election are scheduled to last only a year, making it more of a test drive than a new start, which Codger thinks...
11.09.2025 Featured Story 21st century skills lacking in many local officials Whether standing behind the center console on a Boston Whaler or commanding a 1,000-foot Panamax container ship, the view from the bridge reveals the true nature of the waters...
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