08.23.2023 Government Comprehensive Plan deadline is history: Will take whatever time is needed If Monday night’s Comprehensive Plan meeting started contentiously, tempers calmed as some members of the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee (CPAC), which is made up of residents, got their points...
04.09.2022 Columns Codger’s column: Water Music, second movement Mark Twain is supposed to have said, “Whiskey is for drinkin’, water is for fightin’,” which was more than enough for Codger to abandon his Friday evening jar for...
10.22.2021 Letters Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Oct. 21, 2021 Words To the Editor: Transparency, noun. • The characteristic of being easy to see through. • The quality of being done in an open way without secrets. Transparency in...
09.08.2021 News The Shelter Island Police Department is golden: 50 years of community policing In 1965, a 20-year-old Montclair Colony resident decided instead of paying 15 cents for ferry passage to Greenport, he’d take his date home in a motorboat he found tied...
07.16.2021 Around the Island Jenifer’s Journal: Nineteen All nature is but art, unknown to thee: All chance, direction, which thou canst not see: All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. — Alexander Pope...