04.06.2020 Island Profiles Island Profile: Forrest Compton, soldier, actor, Islander The Shelter Island community was saddened to learn of the death of Forrest Compton, who succumbed to the COVID-19 coronavirus while hospitalized. Here’s a profile of Forrest by Charity...
12.24.2019 Columns Column: Feeling like Christmas Whenever I hear someone say that they don’t have that Christmas feeling I remember something that happened back in the mid-80s when I was one of the chaperones for...
12.19.2019 Announcements Senior outing today Shelter Island Recreation hosts the “Out to Lunch Bunch,” a group of Islanders 60 and older, to visit off-Island restaurant, Corner Bar on Thursday, Dec. 19, from 11:30 a.m....
11.28.2019 News Talkin’ turkey If you’ve ever been close to a wild turkey (and what Islander hasn’t), the first impression is how magnificently ugly they are, with the heads of space aliens and...
11.11.2019 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Apollo 12, the second manned moon landing, was launched with lunar module pilot Alan Bean, Charles “Pete” Conrad Jr. and Richard Gordon Jr. aboard....