05.08.2024 Around the Island Love on the Rock: Pepe and Lydia, hot off the fax If you are a regular at Stars Café, you know Lydia and Pepe Martinez well. Lydia planned and hand-lettered the chalkboard menu on the wall and baked the sugar...
01.16.2024 Environment Battling against the tide: Town accomplishments, and calling for more Record heat waves followed by extreme storms. Driving rain in 18-hour stretches and destructive winds. Towering-high tides overwhelming the land. Wades and Crescent beaches gone. Marshes and creeks only...
01.04.2024 News John Needham is the Shelter Island Reporter Person of the Year Shelter Island has always been blessed by volunteers who devote time and energy to jobs that in other venues had required ever-increasing taxes to hire professionals. One such volunteer,...
08.01.2023 Education Student program to focus on the world of work Classroom education is vital, but Shelter Island School math teacher James “Jimbo” Theinert came to the conclusion that, as he said, “We have to have something else we can...
07.06.2023 News Proposed Reel Point solution awaits Army Corps response: Trying to conclude a decade-long process It has been close to 10 years since Shelter Island officials began to express concerns about saving Reel Point, a spit of land jutting out into Coecles Harbor. Strong...