09.19.2020 Columns Codger’s column: After the fall Codger has always loved this time of year, from Labor Day when the air whooshes out of the Shelter Island beach ball to Thanksgiving, his favorite holiday, a week-long...
09.19.2020 Opinion Suffolk Closeup: The robocall scourge “We’ve had a recent urgent update on your Medicare coverage,” said the robocall. A second followed, announcing: “We’ve been trying to reach you concerning your car’s extended warranty.” Caller...
09.17.2020 Columns Guest Column: Giving thanks for a ‘Silver Lining’ The last six months have proven to be challenging and sometimes devastating to so many people worldwide, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Over 26 million people globally have been...
09.16.2020 Editorial Reporter Editorial: September It happens outside, in the stillness of early morning, or as the light shifts in late afternoon and lingers in the tops of trees, that we suddenly see summer...
09.13.2020 Columns Column: Our family’s little heart warrior I’ll always cherish the moment I read my daughter her first book. I held her in my arms, careful not to disturb the array of wires connected to her...
09.11.2020 Columns Column: Carefully considering school budgets For the second time in a few years, the Shelter Island Board of Education considered a proposal to eliminate use of Indians as team names and mascots. This time,...
09.07.2020 Columns Gimme Shelter: What does Labor Day mean? Labor Day, America’s end-of-summer weekend celebration, lost its original meaning long ago. The first Monday in September was earmarked Labor Day as an election year appeasement by President Grover...
09.06.2020 Columns Prose & Comments: The ongoing struggles for a free media By Stephen Gessner I was impressed by the recent Shelter Island Reporter editorial: “Community newspapers, essential to democracy” (Aug.28), which stressed the importance of small-town newspapers. This point is...
09.05.2020 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Education in transition My new semester as a professor at SUNY/College at Old Westbury began this week and I’m teaching online. Most classes at the college are online other than those dependent...
09.04.2020 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Welcome back Even in the upside down world the pandemic has created, some things don’t change. Parents and children find themselves in the emotional states they encounter every time when August...
