09.27.2025 Featured Story Moving Forward: Civility in a non-civil world Our young granddaughters are constantly hearing us remind them to say “Please” and “Thank you.” These are basic manners that everyone I know would agree with. I also think...
09.26.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Sept. 26, 2025 STEADY, MEANIGFUL PORGRESS To the Editor: I want to take a moment to clarify some recent misinformation and share the truth about the work happening in the Town Clerk’s...
09.21.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Make a plan Every election in America is critical, whether at the national, state or local level. Voting is the engine that drives the democratic process. The oft-repeated expression “all politics is...
09.20.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Letters to the Editor: Sept. 19, 2025 NEVER A YARD SIGN To the Editor: I was very happy to read that the GOP has decided against using any yard signs. I have always felt that all...
09.14.2025 Featured Story View From the Bridge: How government should work My professional life has been spent as an engineer, elected official, and merchant marine deck officer. Only rarely have political reflections occupied my thoughts, but lately I find myself...
09.13.2025 Featured Story Codger: Sing louder Codger had been feeling paranoid lately for imagining that the government was coming after him. It’s not as if he actually had dealings with those teen-aged DOGES or the...
09.12.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Sept. 12, 2025 THE PLAY’S THE THING To the Editor: Wow, John Kaasik — you’ve done it again! In my opinion, this was your finest performance yet — and I believe the...
09.12.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Signs don’t get votes What influences your decision about casting a ballot for a candidate? Does seeing a yard sign or a bumper sticker affect your point of view? And does the cost...
09.07.2025 Featured Story Suffolk Close Up: County Legislature is a pipeline to other posts There’ll be a question for voters on the election ballot in November on whether the terms should be extended from the present two years to four for the 18...
09.07.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: No time for silence We increasingly hear people saying that they are so fed up with the current political situation, on every level of government, that they’re opting out, not having an opinion...
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