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01.03.2026 Featured Story

Year In Review: Island politics — A gutter attack, an October surprise, a clear winner

It was a rocky year in politics on Shelter Island, from an anonymous, scurrilous attack on Amber Brach-Williams who was running for re-election as Town supervisor, to an extraordinary...

12.23.2025 Featured Story

Southold’s Kathryn Casey Quigley to run for county Democratic Committee chair

Southold Town Democratic Committee Chair Kathryn Casey Quigley will run for leadership of the Suffolk County Democratic Committee next fall after leading a “blue wave” of Democratic victories on...

11.05.2025 Featured Story

Doroski shocks Stark to win Legislature’s 1st District

Democrat Greg Doroski pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Tuesday’s election, unseating Republican incumbent Catherine Stark in the Suffolk County Legislature 1st District race. The four-year Southold...

11.05.2025 Featured Story

Campaigns celebrate: Gooding gracious in defeat

The Isola bar was buzzing Tuesday night, hosting the GOP’s watch party. When the polls closed at the school, and Ms. Brach-Williams and Ms. Larsen were comfortably ahead, the...

11.05.2025 Featured Story

Supervisor Brach-Williams defeats Councilman Gooding in race for top Shelter Island post

In a re-match this year of the race for Shelter Island Town Supervisor two Novembers ago, Supervisor Amber Brach Williams again defeated Councilman Gordon Gooding. This time she took a...

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10.25.2025 Featured Story

October surprise: Dems rocked by attacks on their candidate by one of their own on eve of the election

This story has been updated to correct errors in the original post. In an extraordinary email letter to some members of the Shelter Island Democratic Party faithful and others,...

10.24.2025 Featured Story

Polls open tomorrow for Election 2025: Candidates state their cases

Early voting starts on Saturday, Oct. 25. Ballots can be cast at the Community Center. The schedule for early voting is: • Oct. 25, 26 and 27 from 10...

10.22.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island candidates take stage for votes

For the first time, an Oct. 19 forum at the Shelter Island School auditorium included all nine candidates for four offices — supervisor, Town Board members, Town Clerk and...

10.16.2025 Featured Story

Candidates forum set for Sunday

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island and the North Fork plans for a Shelter Island candidates forum was a victim of the foul weather last...

10.14.2025 Featured Story

Candidates forum rescheduled

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island and the North Fork plans for a Shelter Island candidates forum was a victim of the foul weather on...

10.11.2025 Featured Story

Candidate forum set for Sunday

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island and the North Fork will be posing questions to candidates for Shelter Island local races on Sunday between 1...

10.04.2025 Featured Story

Election information

Candidates for supervisor, Town Board, Town Clerk and Highway Superintendent have been invited to participate in a public forum conducted by The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons,...

09.14.2025 Featured Story

No major voter defections from Shelter Island to NYC

What apparently started as reports from various media about Southold Democrats changing their voter registration from the East End to New York City became an unsubstantiated issue for Shelter...

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...

09.09.2025 Featured Story

Shelter Island GOP candidates will post no signs: Dems to distribute signs to supporters

Shelter Island Republicans have been using social media and a Reporter letter to the editor in the Sept. 11 print edition to announce their intention to post no political...

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Year In Review: Island politics — A gutter attack, an October surprise, a clear winner

Southold’s Kathryn Casey Quigley to run for county Democratic Committee chair

Doroski shocks Stark to win Legislature’s 1st District

Campaigns celebrate: Gooding gracious in defeat

Supervisor Brach-Williams defeats Councilman Gooding in race for top Shelter Island post

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October surprise: Dems rocked by attacks on their candidate by one of their own on eve of the election

Polls open tomorrow for Election 2025: Candidates state their cases

Shelter Island candidates take stage for votes

Candidates forum set for Sunday

Candidates forum rescheduled

Candidate forum set for Sunday

Election information

No major voter defections from Shelter Island to NYC

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Signs don’t get votes

Shelter Island GOP candidates will post no signs: Dems to distribute signs to supporters

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