11.03.2022 Columns Charity’s Column: Once upon a time on Shelter Island, we built affordable housing. It worked. This is a story about what happened the last time the Town of Shelter Island found the money and the political will to help regular people live here. I’ve...
10.23.2022 Community Town government and community honor Dorothy Ogar: Clerk’s office will be named for her At a gathering on Oct. 22 on the lawn next to the community Center honoring Town Clerk Dorothy Ogar, and the naming of the clerk’s office after her, former...
10.12.2022 News Town prepares salute to Town Clerk Dorothy Ogar You might say Dorothy Ogar practically grew up in the Town Clerk’s office. That’s because she worked assisting her mother, former town clerk Helen Dickerson Smith, for 16 years....
02.14.2022 Government A matter of ethics: Long-mothballed committee set for re-boot The Town is reconstituting its Board of Ethics, with a call for volunteers to serve on the Board, which has been moribund for several years. The issue is on...
05.24.2019 Columns Charity’s column: Real towns have a school The sign on the lawn outside Louis Cicero’s barbershop last Thursday read “Prom Haircuts” and it captured the mood (and the stray hairs) of the Island. The students who...
