07.08.2016 News State slashes Shelter Island’s 4-poster money New York State has allocated $100,000 to defray the cost of deploying and maintaining 4-poster units to combat tick-borne diseases in past years, but the 2016 allocation has been...
06.07.2016 Government Science project: Committee gathering data on deer and ticks The town’s Deer & Tick Committee is hoping that in the months ahead it can obtain more scientific evidence to support its decisions to reduce the incidence of tick-borne...
05.09.2016 News Dougherty: Don’t disparage 4-posters units Talk of phasing out 4-poster units — feeding stands that brush deer with a tickicide, permethrin — is “undermining” efforts to get financial support from New York State, according...
03.04.2016 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY North Vietnam troops captured a Green Beret camp at Ashau Valley.
02.15.2016 News Deer & Tick Committee takes a fresh look at tactics Shelter Island’s Deer & Tick Committee is primed to take a look at what’s working and what’s not in its effort to reduce tick-borne diseases. There are reasons to...