10.30.2011 Around the Island Back When 50 YEARS AGO Daylight Saving goes to moth balls Daylight Saving Time, man’s tampering with nature, which almost everyone enjoys, comes to an end at 2 a.m. this Sunday...
10.24.2011 Around the Island Back When: October 20th 50 YEARS AGO Legal notice Public Hearing on Preliminary Budget … Town officers are hereby specified as follows: Supervisor, $3,000; Justice of the Peace, $3,600; Councilmen, $2,000; Town Clerk,...
10.17.2011 Around the Island Back When: October 13 50 YEARS AGO School news Representatives of the Bell Telephone Educational Department met recently with the Shelter Island grade school faculty to discuss the use of company-supplied material in...
10.05.2011 Around the Island Back When: October 6, 2011 50 YEARS AGO Bits & pieces The average time it takes a train to pass a grade crossing is 14 seconds, whether your car is on it or not!...
09.28.2011 Around the Island Back When: Week of September 29, 2011 50 YEARS AGO Hurricane Esther… …Esther was billed by forecasters as the worst storm to whirl into these parts since the havoc of 1938, but high pressure areas sweeping...