04.17.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: April 17, 2026 TAKE THE SURVEY To the Editor: Shelter Island is a special place and keeping it that way means ensuring our residents can access the health care they need, right...
04.11.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Two leaps forward for critical care For too long, a stroke on Shelter Island and the North Fork has come with a second emergency: distance. That reality is beginning to change. With Stony Brook Eastern...
04.09.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: April 9, 2026 INDEPENDENT PLANNING BOARD To the Editor: This letter serves as a “Thank you” to the mayor and trustees of the Village of Dering Harbor for their consideration to restore...
04.06.2026 Featured Story Codger’s column: Woofless Codger and Crone have been without a live-in dog for almost a year now, longer than any time in their almost 30 years together. That, the frigid weather and...
04.04.2026 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: Easter connections I must have been about 10, when a few days before Ash Wednesday, my mother asked me what I was planning to give up for Lent. Faking a thoughtful...
04.04.2026 Featured Story Cronin’s Column: Reckoning in Anchored Beacon Some years ago, while single-handing my Stone Horse cutter Eidos down east, I dropped the hook in the tiny harbor of a little-known island, Anchored Beacon. The visit proved...
04.01.2026 Columns Afloat: A matter time Spring is still off to windward, yet the scuttlebutt on the waterfront is already freshening. Sources close to the source have told us that heirs of Pogatticut, grand Sachem...
03.27.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: March 27, 2026 DO EDUCATORS EVER LEARN? To the Editor: According to Newsday, out of all of the school districts on Long Island, only four are attempting to exceed the CAP in...
03.15.2026 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: ICE creates a crisis Came the news late last month: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement —ICE — had started renting office space in Woodbury, in Nassau County, “for up to 40 ICE attorneys...
03.14.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: March 14, 2026 NINE MORE MONTHS To the Editor: Finally, winter has receded and the “Snow-Drops” (Galanthus) are looking beautiful popping up through frost-free ground. The weather is now warm enough to...