04.13.2016 Government Town Board: Water quality referendum on tap for November At Tuesday’s Town Board work session the members began the process of drafting a referendum for November’s ballot on improving the Island’s water quality. The referendum would ask voters...
01.06.2016 Government Officials sworn in for new terms: Board discusses strategies for 2016 It was standing-room-only Tuesday in the Town Hall meeting room, as Judge Helen Rosenblum swore in town officials elected in November.
10.27.2015 Politics Shepherd, Colligan and Breiner questioned at forum The debate between three candidates for two spots on the Town Board started slowly, and not just because one participant was late. Republican Emory Breiner was in the school...
10.10.2015 Columns Codger Column: The geezer guard Codger hates to admit that he was shocked — shocked! — to read last month that the Island shelters scores of unlicensed bed-and-breakfasts, but he has been stewing about...
08.12.2015 Government Town Board explores ways to license beach vendors Talk, but no action — at least not yet — on two issues that trouble Town Board members: how to control commercial operations at beaches and parks on the...