04.01.2025 Environment Feeling the burn again at Mashomack: Second ‘prescribed fire’ a total success Once again, those outside on Shelter Island and the North and South forks on Thursday, March 27, saw rising towers of gray and white smoke soaring skyward. The fuel...
03.27.2025 News Second Mashomack burn going well: Expected to be completed by late afternoon A second controlled burn was underway today at Mashomack Preserve. May Yeung, a Nature Conservancy’s media relations official, confirmed that as of 2 p.m. everything was going well. Ms....
01.02.2025 Around the Island Susan’s Shorelines: Ballooning to Bethlehem As Community News Editor, I’m grateful to be opening 2025 with our first issue of the Reporter. There was a time in mid-2024 when we thought our year-end issue...
12.16.2024 Around the Island Love on the Rock: Teenage Sweethearts If you frequent the Historical Society’s Havens Farmers Market on Shelter Island during the summer, you have likely stumbled upon Kim Curko’s By Way of the Farm tent with...
11.19.2024 Columns Codger’s Column: We’ll see In times of anxiety, Codger recalls his father’s mantra: “Nothing is ever as good or bad as your imagination can make it.” That’s always been wise counsel for Codger,...