03.08.2023 News Narcan stations expanding across North Fork: Lifesaving kits can help prevent fatal overdoses A string of fatal drug overdoses in the summer of 2021 left deep scars on residents of the North Fork and Shelter Island. Now, local organizations and businesses are...
10.13.2022 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: The best among us We’ve referred before in this space to a famous text from the Talmud about the importance of helping others, where it is spelled out, simply and beautifully, that a...
08.18.2021 News Restaurant industry hit hard by overdoses: Suggestions for Narcan training The death on Shelter Island, and others on the North Fork from cocaine laced with fentanyl, have hit the restaurant industry hard, according to Police Chief Jim Read, with...
01.21.2021 News The pandemic tears at the social fabric: Overdoses, domestic abuse/violence trending upward During the pandemic year of 2020, the number of overdoses from opiates and alcohol reported to the Shelter Island Police Department was seven, up by five from the year...
09.09.2019 News Islanders learn: “When in doubt, Naloxone” When Shelter Island Library Director Terry Lucas received an email inquiry from the Suffolk County Department of Health Services seeking hosts for an Opioid Overdose Prevention program, she didn’t...
