Opinion Archives - Shelter Island Reporter

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...

10.31.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: All politics is local

The hard-fought campaign here on Shelter Island for supervisor, Town Board, Highway Superintendent and Town Clerk, was at times veering toward the gutter, but all in all it has...

10.28.2025 Featured Story

Column: When a pharmacy closes

We aren’t the first to experience this, but being on a small island certainly makes the impact enormous. A little over a year ago Shelter Island was facing the...

10.26.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Oct. 26, 2025

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE LIBRARY PROJECT To the Editor: I am writing to correct some significant misinformation regarding the Shelter Island Public Library that has recently appeared on social...

10.26.2025 Featured Story

Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Legacy

This column was supposed to have compensated for my not finding a local-enough “No Kings” march in which to participate this past weekend. I’d decided that I’d have to...

10.25.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter endorsements for Election 2025

Early voting begins Saturday, October 25, and continues through Sunday, November 2, with Election Day on Tuesday, November 4. Your vote is your voice. Here are the Reporter’s endorsements...

10.02.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: October

October is the beautiful one at the party, turning heads, glamorous and dazzling. Seated between whimsical, not-quite-sure-of itself September (summer still, or suddenly fall?) and dour November, October swans...

09.27.2025 Featured Story

Moving Forward: Civility in a non-civil world

Our young granddaughters are constantly hearing us remind them to say “Please” and “Thank you.” These are basic manners that everyone I know would agree with. I also think...

09.26.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Sept. 26, 2025

STEADY, MEANIGFUL PORGRESS To the Editor: I want to take a moment to clarify some recent misinformation and share the truth about the work happening in the Town Clerk’s...

09.21.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Make a plan

Every election in America is critical, whether at the national, state or local level. Voting is the engine that drives the democratic process. The oft-repeated expression “all politics is...

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