04.08.2026 Featured Story Jenifer’s Shelter Island Journal: Springing into action I’ll admit the headline is a tad cliché, but “Springtime,” kind of a uber-cliché itself, is riddled with them. Think of the countless song titles: “Spring is Here,” “It...
04.07.2026 Featured Story Deer & Tick Committee seeks hunters: Recreational and professional hunters to cull herd Four months since its last meeting in December, the Deer & Tick Committee met last week to assess its accomplishments in 2025 and begin plotting its course for this...
03.20.2025 Featured Story How Shelter Islanders stepped up to fight COVID This is the second in a series about how Shelter Islanders coped with the COVID-19 pandemic that five years ago intruded on all aspects of people’s lives and a...
03.12.2025 Featured Story How the COVID pandemic changed Island life: A look back and lessons learned This month marks five years since the COVID-19 pandemic entered our lives, changing everything about how we lived. This represents the first in a series of reports on dealing...
01.28.2025 Featured Story Getting to the heart of the matter: Peconic Bay Medical Center program supporting cardiac patients He was suddenly, fully awake from a sound sleep at 1 a.m., the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. Something was seriously wrong. He felt as if his upper torso...