03.15.2024 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: The springing of the year How soon we forget that spring is, among other things, the season that requires patience to appreciate. Officially, the season arrives on Tuesday, but seasons are far too fickle...
06.03.2023 Around the Island Life is a Shelter Island Beach: A primer for newcomers (and forgetful natives) for 2023 O.K., here’s the skinny for those in bikinis — or whatever you wear at the beach. Shelter Island has some 20 miles of coastline that encompasses sandy beaches with...
04.09.2022 Around the Island Sign of the season, April 2022 Piping plovers are back on Shell Beach. An endangered species in New York, they weigh one-and-a-half to two-and-a-quarter ounces. These delightful birds build their nests in sandy areas near...
04.15.2019 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Joe Frazier knocked out Dave Zyglewick in the first round to win the heavyweight boxing title at the Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston, Texas....
04.12.2019 Editorial Reporter Editorial: Bringing us all together Spring for Shelter Island means many things — the return of the piping plovers madly scurrying across beaches, joined by those great fish hawks, the ospreys, sailing above our...