05.10.2026 Featured Story Gimme Shelter: Travel tips Do we travel just so we can come home again? This question seemed to be answered in the affirmative by the faces my traveling companion (MTC) and I looked...
05.10.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: Mother’s Day 2026 Every year in early May, we devote space here to pay tribute to mothers. (Fathers, you’ll have to wait for June, but we won’t forget you, either.) And at...
05.08.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: May 8, 2026 JOURNALISM MATTERS To the Editor: I wanted to congratulate Ambrose Clancy for his award as Writer of the Year from the New York Press Association and to Nancy Green...
04.30.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: April 30, 2026 FOLLOW THE CODE To the Editor: I attended the public hearing last Wednesday evening where the applicant for 9 Cartwright Road was seeking two variances for an ADU on...
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...