09.15.2025 Featured Story A feast of oysters and more at event to support the Shelter Island History Museum Punctuating the month of September, when Islanders exhale and enjoy reclaiming a sense of space and calm after the busy summer season, the “Oysters ‘R’ Here” festivities will return...
11.11.2024 Featured Story Talking about the future of fishing on Shelter Island: How we can catch, grow, and eat our way to healthy bays In the 19th century, the waters around Shelter Island thrived with oyster reefs, and for most of the 20th century huge bay scallop harvests were a boon to the...
09.13.2024 Featured Story A Shelter Island bike tour: Pedaling and partaking of Island treats Autumn offers some of the best bike riding weather of the year, when even we once-in-a-blue-moon road warriors dust off the old Trek, refill the tires, and venture out...
12.12.2023 Featured Story Where in the world were the Shelter Island students? Spotted in Florida in early November with their copy of the Reporter, members of the class of 2027 and 2028 and their chaperons, above, traveled to participate in the...
02.24.2023 Featured Story Island Profile: Bert Waife, Here, there, everywhere,and finally home It wasn’t what he’d planned on. Although, when you get deep into conversation with Eel Town Oysters founder and owner, Robert “Bert” Waife, you get the notion that he’s...
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