02.09.2016 News With Greenport man at the helm, oyster growers unite “Greenport, like towns on Staten Island, prospered from the oyster.” So wrote John Kochiss, author of “Oystering from New York to Boston,” in 1973, pointing back to the...
11.06.2015 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: A bright November Early November is a time of Halloween hangovers, abbreviated afternoons, yard signs screaming for votes and, at least for some, Ishmael’s “damp, drizzly” weariness of the soul. Around here...
11.07.2013 Around the Island A link to the Island’s past: Scallop season kicked off Monday The wind blowing hard from the north. The thermometer just at the freezing mark. Pitch darkness. At the Town Dock at Congdon’s Creek, heavily-dressed men emerged from their trucks,...