11.09.2021 News How the FIT Center was created: Two high school girls and a community that backed them In the winter of 1997, Lila Picozzi and Maura Regan had been elected as co-presidents of the Shelter Island High School Student Council, and wanted their group to leave...
03.02.2018 Island Profiles Island profile: Carol Galligan, a writer’s life In the 1970s, Carol Galligan was a working, divorced mother of two teen-age kids. Once they made their way from Manhattan to Shelter Island on Friday nights she looked...
05.14.2016 Columns Codger: The Alt. Tour Codger is again cranking up to take his visitors on tours of the Island, especially those second-time visitors who have already been properly enchanted by Mashomack, Sylvester Manor, Shell...
02.11.2016 Island Profiles Island profile: Billy Boeklen & Tristan Wissemann, Shelter Island’s finest ambassadors Standing outside the high school gym near the display case that holds seven 1,000-point game basketballs and across from the Hall of Fame case, Coach Jay Card Jr. described...
02.07.2016 Columns On the half shell: A Good FIT for Shelter Island I’ve seen many a health club, but never one that rivals Project FIT. In a world where fitness is found in eucalyptus-scented warehouses with rows of heart-monitoring, cadence-counting electronic...