06.03.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: Of thee we sing A week ago today a surprising, heartwarming number of visitors and residents showed up under a canopy of gray, dripping clouds, braving the persistent drizzle to honor Memorial Day....
05.31.2026 Featured Story View From the Bridge: Submarines and governance complexities Recently I encountered two former Shelter Island supervisors, men who served years apart and under very different circumstances. One conversation occurred before a funeral service for a local resident,...
05.31.2026 Featured Story Reporter Editorial: Staying safe in summer Along with this season of family, friends and fun come all the other things that make this time of year on the East End so memorable. And yet with...
05.28.2026 Featured Story Column: What’s become of gambling? How quaint it used to be. When I was a kid there was just Las Vegas. Grownups could go out there and play blackjack or craps and gape at...
05.28.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: May 28, 2026 IN PLAIN SIGHT To the Editor: Shelter Island just voted on a $13.6 million school budget that pierces the property tax cap — after cuts like social worker staff...
05.24.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Memorial Day 2026 This page applauded President Donald Trump’s move during his first term to extricate U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan. And we applauded President Joe Biden for making the policy real,...
05.21.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters To the Editor EXTENDED HOURS To the Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to inform the community about new extended office hours being implemented by the Town Clerk’s Office in...
05.17.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reorter Editorial: Vote ‘Yes’ on the school budget The headlines say Shelter Island is one of only two Suffolk County School Districts to pierce the 2% spending cap with its proposed $13.57 million budget, a 2.07% spending...
05.15.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: May A FAN’S NOTE To the Editor: I spent quite a bit of time on the Island in the sixties, and some again in the 20-teens, and while I don’t...
05.15.2026 Featured Story Codger’s Column: Feed me Codger still feels buoyed, weeks after seeing “Little Shop of Horrors.” What a show. Not only was it terrific as sheer entertainment, but it also made the case yet...
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