09.20.2019 Government County: Consider sea level rise in planning A resolution adopted by Suffolk County lawmakers last Wednesday will require the Department of Public Works (DPW) to consider the impacts of sea level rise when constructing and reconstructing...
09.02.2019 Featured Story Suffolk Closeup: Living on the edge It’s happening. Climate change is hitting this area. In Greenport, the dock for Shelter Island’s North Ferry terminal is being raised in response to higher tides — a result...
08.26.2018 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Call to action on climate change Two East Enders deeply committed to the environment — actor Alec Baldwin and marine scientist Kevin McAllister, founding president of the Sag Harbor-based organization Defend H20 — presented a...
11.25.2017 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Long Island water 101 Suffolk County government has, at long last, embraced the “advanced” wastewater treatment systems that remove substantial amounts of nitrogen that leach from traditional cesspools.
09.08.2017 Letters Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor Ban the phones To the Editor: I am a retired teacher who taught at the Shelter Island School from 1976 until 2015. There have been many changes at the...
