03.20.2025 Featured Story The springing of the year, March 20, 2025 Today, Thursday, March 20, at 5:01 a.m., marks the vernal equinox, the first day of spring, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. The sun, the Old Farmer tells us,...
10.28.2023 Featured Story Jenifer’s Journal: Selfies Although “selfies”— those ubiquitous, sometimes haphazard, sometimes carefully curated cellphone self-portraits — may deserve their own column considering what they say regarding the state of our society, the “selfies”...
09.02.2023 Around the Island Union Chapel’s Poetry Sunday: Closing summer service During the summer of 2020, Chairman Jay Sterling and the Chapel trustees came up with the idea to have outdoor services centered around poetry and the work of one...
04.14.2023 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorials: April 14, 2023 A tale told … It can seem like Shelter Island Town government and public meetings stumble along from one “crisis” to another, with the quality of the rhetoric getting...
09.02.2022 Featured Story Poetry Sunday at Shelter Island’s Union Chapel One of the unexpected “gifts” of the pandemic for Union Chapel during the Summer of 2020 was the creation of Poetry Sundays in the Grove. Because returning indoors was...