02.13.2019 News Community enlisted to prevent opioid deaths As part of New York State’s response to the opioid epidemic, Shelter Island residents participated in training February 5, in the use of naloxene (NARCAN) to reverse an overdose.
12.27.2018 Government County getting federal grant funds to fight opioids A $75,000 federal pass-through grant administered by the state health department will help Suffolk County fund a new training program for first responders on the front lines of the...
07.26.2018 News Lost in waves of opioid use When Kirstin Elizabeth Zabel was born in December 1986, her parents, Donald and Claudia, brought her home to Cartwright Road on Shelter Island. Thirty-one years later she was buried...
06.18.2018 Editorial Reporter Editorial: The Island’s lifeline In a famous text from the Talmud, the importance of helping others is spelled out simply and beautifully, by saying that a person who saves a single life has...
05.19.2018 Editorial Finding a common solution On May 12 in Hampton Bays, as a cold rain fell on a large crowd of the broken-hearted, speaker after speaker told deeply personal stories about how the opioid...