02.22.2022 Around the Island Charity’s Column: Who is a resident? When the question of a transfer of moorings in Coecles Harbor to the new owner of the Ram’s Head Inn came before the Town Board last fall, it opened...
01.18.2019 Columns Column: Codger lives! As a great fan of fun science, Codger has been deeply absorbed this entire year by the news that Shelter Islanders will, on average, live to be 93, longer...
09.03.2018 Legal Notices Featured Letter to the Editor of the week: Hareleggers? Good enough for him To the Editor: In light of last week’s “harelegger” article (“New take on origin of ‘hareleggers,’” August 30) and the explanation of usage by Reverend...
04.28.2017 Island Profiles Profile: Hap Bowditch, Shelter Island’s ‘man of steel’ When Shelter Island became a town in 1730, George Washington was not yet born, and two of the 20 town fathers were named Bowditch. “They’re here,” Harry Dawson Bowditch...
03.12.2016 Columns Codger column: All’s fair As usual, Codger did not score a skateboard or a pedicure at the Hannabury Fair last Saturday, although he did fill up on the cookies he had thought about...