06.11.2018 News Town wants design plan on Reel Point before hurricane season With a hurricane season that could be here by August or September, the Town Board has told Public Works Commissioner Jay Card Jr. to push consultants to produce a...
03.29.2018 News Town Board moving on effort to save Reel Point At its Tuesday work session, the Town Board gave updates on several issues that have been before the public in recent weeks. There seems to be movement on only...
03.06.2018 News Town committees face the crisis at Reel Point Severe erosion resulting from a series of nor’easters have wreaked havoc on Reel Point. Waterways Management Advisory Council (WMAC) Chairman John Needham termed the damage done by the most...
02.26.2018 News What’s with Reel Point? Will solution surface this year? Shelter Island doesn’t own Reel Point and so what should its involvement be to protect it from erosion? It’s a question town officials have grappled with, finally concluding, on...
02.16.2018 Island Profiles Island Profile: Finding the real deal on Shelter Island Tracy McCarthy was 40 when she moved permanently to Shelter Island. But in all the ways that count, she lived here all her life. Her recurring childhood ear infections?...