05.29.2020 Columns Gimme Shelter: Locked up Am I the only one who thinks Zoom meetings are like visiting day at Sing Sing? There, in front of you, is a person whom you know and who...
05.29.2020 Editorial Reporter Editorial: Hats off to Shelter Island What’s good and what’s bad in a community is often easy to detect. Sometimes events and attitudes are not what they seem, but two examples from the past week...
05.24.2020 Columns Column: The current phase of mourning We’ve been doing this for two months now. At first it was scary, but there was a sense of determination and perhaps a bit of adventure. The Island needed...
05.22.2020 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Moving away, moving out Is Suffolk County to become a sanctuary for some New York City people because of the COVID-19 pandemic? There are indications that this is happening. “It’s Time To Get...
05.22.2020 Columns Richard’s almanac: Memorial Day weekend 2020 So, the official opening of the summer season is this weekend. But more importantly it’s this country’s Memorial Day weekend with Memorial Day on Monday, May 25, a time...
05.21.2020 Columns Codger’s column: My president These days, even Codger needs reassurance. He has Crone, of course, and Cur II, and Cat and Crunch with their families through cyberspace, but sometimes he needs to reach...
05.16.2020 Opinion Suffolk Closeup: Testing, tracing, isolating “It is certainly true that we need to get back to work. It’s a shame that we don’t have the testing that would inform us how to get back...
05.14.2020 Opinion Dr. Sultan’s column: Past fear, masks and back to an Island tradition How do we stay connected to each other? The fear of contracting COVID-19 is changing our basic social interactions on the Island. Now, with most people wearing masks, another...
05.09.2020 Cartoons Paw Print: The World of Peter Waldner From the mind and pen of Peter Waldner, the Reporter’s award-winning cartoonist.
05.04.2020 Opinion Richard’s Almanac: Nature up close I seem to be becoming more aware of the activities and habits of the Island’s fauna around my home during this current isolation. Just last week my son-in-law told...
