11.15.2024 Letters Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Nov. 15, 2024 DEMOCRACY IN ACTION To the Editor: On the cover of last week’s Reporter, there’s a picture of Ashley, the young woman who voted for the first time. I’m writing...
03.11.2024 Around the Island Top of the Shelter Island scallop heap Young Dredge Clark, age 6 months, (above) supervises while his father, Sawyer, shucks Peconic Bay scallops. With the shellfish harvest rebounding after an initially disappointing season, Sawyer and Norma...
11.07.2023 News All dredged up and nowhere to go: Not extinct, but bay scallops are hard to find While the rest of us admire fall foliage, East End baymen look to nature for signs that predict the health of the adult bay scallop population. They watch the...
03.01.2022 Around the Island Aw shucks: Oyster farmers dish on aquaculture Did you ever wonder why oysters have different shapes? What makes oysters taste differently? Ask an oyster farmer. A hundred years ago, New York oysters were a commodity eaten...
01.03.2020 Columns Grossman Column: What were the top stories in Suffolk in 2019? The conviction for obstruction of justice, witness tampering and other counts of ex-Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota and his former anti-corruption unit chief, Christopher McPartland, was the biggest event...
