03.07.2025 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Washing away Just recently, no shortage of area dog walkers, birders and avid fishermen were a bit taken aback by the unusually low tides along the Peconic Bay shoreline. And their...
01.06.2025 Business A life working on the water: Fisherman, businessman serves Shelter Island and North Fork Just back from a two-day fishing trip that took him 100 miles south of Montauk, Jermaine Owens was talking about tilefish. The tile is a big-headed bruiser who lives...
09.10.2024 News Having no plan is planning to fail: Red Cross tips on hurricane season September is a time of many new beginnings, with school and athletic teams’ starting dates, to name just a couple. But there is one beginning that requires planning and...
05.29.2024 Environment Preparing for coming storms: Have an action plan ready to put into place Hurricane season is on its way for Shelter Island and the East End, scheduled for June 1 to Nov. 30. And, as the Environmental Defense Fund has stated: “If...
11.17.2023 Environment Hotline saves cold-stunned sea turtles The Cold Stun Patrol Team of Riverhead’s New York Marine Rescue Center will soon begin patrolling local beaches in search of cold-stunned sea turtles. More than 200 volunteers will walk shorelines...