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02.21.2020 Letters

Featured Letter: Town should stay out of affordable housing

To the Editor: The town wants to become an affordable housing landlord? Where do they get the money to buy these properties? Will they be able to make a...

02.21.2020 Columns

Grossman Column: Getting to work on rising sea levels

The Suffolk County Legislature last week unanimously passed a measure establishing a Coastal Resiliency and Sea Level Rise Task Force. It would be composed of 21 members, some from...

02.20.2020 Editorial

Editorial: A salute to the Island’s youth

Some young people went to work recently to help keep a symbol of the Island alive (literally) for everyone. A group of Shelter Island High School seniors helped build...

02.18.2020 Letters

Featured Letter: Lucky to share the love of a special place

To the Editor: Two amazing people from my Shelter Island childhood passed away in the past two weeks, Victor Friedman and Alyce Knight. They were part of my parents’...

02.17.2020 Columns

Senior Column: Warm feelings at “The Big Chill”

I took a break from the mid-February gloom to go to the school auditorium and watch “The Big Chill” performed by an enthusiastic group of 3rd, 4th and 5th...

02.14.2020 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: County’s agricultural history deserves respect

Farming on Long Island deserves to be appreciated. Among public officials from Long Island who very much do appreciate agriculture here, and throughout the state, is New York State...

02.13.2020 Columns

Gimme Shelter: Love’s labor found

Billie Holiday, in one of her more poignant lyrics, wrote that “love will make you drink and gamble, make you stay out all night long.” Which leads me to...

02.12.2020 Editorial

Editorial: Investment in Brookhaven National Laboratory is win for entire region

Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton is one of the country’s premier scientific research facilities. Co-managed by Stony Brook University, it has attracted the world’s best scientists to Long Island....

02.11.2020 Letters

Featured Letter: Fighting for clean water on Shelter Island

To the Editor: On behalf of the Water Quality Improvement Advisory Board, I would like thank Kate Rossi-Snook for her initiative in organizing Wednesday’s Innovative/Alternative Septic System (I/A) informational...

02.10.2020 Columns

Senior column: The solution to your transportation needs

Senior sense I do not believe that Island seniors are fully aware of all the benefits available to them here. According to Senior Center Director Laurie Fanelli if you...

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