11.23.2020 Sports Run For your Life: No sweat. No traffic. No excuses! COVID-19 brings many changes including this rare winter edition of my running epistles, normally only issued before the June Shelter Island 10K. It’s hard enough to persuade you to...
11.19.2020 Sports Solo Islander marathoner takes on the 10K; Alex Graham with friend James Marshall meet the challenge We last left Alex Graham and James Marshall in April as Ms. Graham completed her solo marathon around the Island with Mr. Marshall running part of the way with...
11.10.2020 Columns Column: Our bays are alive with fish — and whales If you looked at the empty mooring field in Dering Harbor last week, you would conclude the boating season was over; our bays and sounds are quiet. You would...
11.05.2020 Community Shelter Island 5K winners confirmed: Fight for cure for women’s cancers continues As expected, the six participants announced as top finishers in the Shelter Island 5K virtual event, dedicated to raise money to help find a cure for women’s cancers, remain...
11.04.2020 Sports A look ahead for high school sports Halloween is over, November winds and rains are here, and normally fall sports would be in playoffs, with winter teams eagerly anticipating their first practices. Of course, like seemingly...
10.29.2020 Sports Preliminary 5K winners await final filings Organizers of the virtual Shelter Island 5K believe they are on track to raise the kind of money they have in past races, but numbers aren’t yet tallied. The...
10.27.2020 Sports 2020 Wednesday Night Races: A blessing for all I am hopeful that sometime in the near future, when we look back at this pandemic summer, we will remember with fondness those experiences that allowed us to feel...
10.26.2020 Sports Gordon Cantley elected Shelter Island Country Club president Shelter Island Country Club (SICC) members elected Gordon Cantley to his first three-year term as president during the club’s season-closing meeting on Saturday, Oct. 24. Mr. Cantley assumed the...
10.14.2020 Sports Shelter Island sports teams honored for academic achievement last school year For the fifth successive year, Shelter Island School has been recognized as a Scholar-Athlete School of Distinction. Assemblyman Fred Thiele Jr. presented the award last week. The honor was...
10.11.2020 Sports Sailing: An Etchells for the Island with hopes of many more The weekend of September 26 was busy for sailboat racing in and around Shelter Island. There was the 27th running of the Whitebread Regatta sponsored by the Peconic Bay...
10.07.2020 Sports Fish On: Six is a pretty good number these days Summer has suddenly become a shadow in everyone’s rear view mirror. The Winston family is about to close up for the season. After we drive to Rochester for...
10.06.2020 Sports Midnight Madness brings joy on the links at Goat Hill A full moon eventually rose to light the way for about 20 golfers who dared to play golf in the dark during Shelter Island Country Club’s Midnight Madness tournament...
10.05.2020 Sports Regattas highlight the joy of sailing around Shelter Island The last weekend in September saw the waters surrounding Shelter Island alive with sailors aboard their boats. Two regattas were held. One, the 27th Annual Whitebread race, the other,...
09.28.2020 Sports Yacht racing ‘round Shelter Island in the annual Whitebread The 27th running of the Whitebread ‘round the whirl sailboat race took place this past Saturday, Sept. 26. The Peconic Bay Sailing Association sponsors the race, which is a...
09.25.2020 Sports Golf by the light of the moon Glow balls flying through the night. Golf carts guided by flashlight. Flagsticks ablaze in neon. Sounds a little spooky, but it’s just a bunch of daring duos who will...
