11.25.2025 Featured Story Community celebrates Sara Gordon, a champion of preservation In the last rays of a spectacular Gardiners Bay sunset, scores of local elected officials, Peconic Land Trust and Sylvester Manor staff, friends, and family of Sara Gordon gathered...
08.10.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Get involved A recent report by a Suffolk County task force on “coastal resilience” warned, yet again, that our precious land resources are in danger from rising tides. It estimated sea levels...
08.05.2025 Featured Story Stories of Shelter Island’s special places Ever wondered who was the Louie of “Louie’s Beach,” and how it became Crescent Beach? Did you know that an enslaved man called Caesar lived at Cedar Hill in...
11.22.2024 Featured Story Peconic Land Trust program helps veteran give back From the war-torn deserts of Afghanistan to a tranquil field at Charnews Farm in Southold, Tim Curry is the first U.S. Army veteran to participate in the Peconic Land...
08.21.2023 Featured Story Remembering the many roles of Jim Dougherty’s life: The former supervisor’s last interview When Jim Dougherty entered stage right as the Mayor of Liverpool in “Lords of Menantic,” last month, and delivered a proclamation of thanks, there wasn’t a dry eye backstage,...
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