04.07.2025 Columns Shelter Island Reporter column: Understanding Autism When I was in graduate school, we were taught that autism resulted from a failure of a mother to bond with her child. In fact, those parents were known...
03.19.2025 Around the Island Column: How aware are you of your brain? The brain is an amazing organ with growth and reparative capacity. It controls our cognitive, motor, sensory, emotional, and autonomic (like breathing) functions. The average child is born with...
02.21.2025 Around the Island Beating the Shelter Island ‘winter blues’ Anyone who has lived through a Shelter Island winter knows it can at times be grim. Yes, there are no summer crowds, and if you want to go to...
01.28.2025 News Getting to the heart of the matter: Peconic Bay Medical Center program supporting cardiac patients He was suddenly, fully awake from a sound sleep at 1 a.m., the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. Something was seriously wrong. He felt as if his upper torso...
02.26.2024 Around the Island How to stay — when to leave: Seniors, and crucial decisions to make The adult children are concerned about their mom in her house alone. She has cognitive impairment and the bills are not getting paid. They want her to leave, but...
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