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...
03.10.2026 Featured Story Codger’s Column: Safety first Crone said it first: “I don’t feel safe any more.” That puzzled Codger at the time. After all, wasn’t this still America with its checks and balances, due process,...
03.08.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: March 8, 2026 THANKS FOR RESPONDING To the Editor: I would just like to take this opportunity to thank the crew of the Shelter Island Highway Department for their outstanding work this...
02.21.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Feb. 21, 2026 AN UNJUSTIFIABLE TAX BREAK To the Editor: On the heels of its last-minute push to buy a dilapidated property for $791,000 and borrow up to $2 million rather than...
02.19.2026 Featured Story Reporter Editorial: Preparing for cyber attacks It’s not just second homeowners and deep-pocketed builders who are transforming Shelter Island. Hackers have wormed their way in. Last week, North Ferry Company’s payment system froze under a...
02.16.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Feb. 16, 2026 DISAPPOINTED To the Editor: You have asked me to comment on President Trump’s social media post depicting former President and First Lady Obama as apes. Here you go… It...
02.09.2026 Featured Story Codger: A cold season When the barbarians reached the gate last week, actually breaching the North Ferry line, Codger felt the depth of this mean and stony cold season. There was no more...
02.07.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Feb. 7, 2026 SIX POINT PLAN To the Editor: For the past three years, Shelter Island has relied on drawing down its reserves to balance the Town budget. I believe this approach...
02.07.2026 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: February The smallest in the family, but unique among its siblings for much more than size. It’s the only shape-shifter, changeling and magician, which every now and then becomes larger...
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