Repair Café Archives - Shelter Island Reporter

12.20.2024 Featured Story

Shelter Island ‘Repair Café’ meets on December 28

Two years ago, Kyle Karen, Ph.D., launched a Repair Café on Shelter Island believing the ingredients for success here were natural factors to be tapped. Repair Café is a...

09.17.2024 Featured Story

‘Repair Café’ resumes Saturday hosted by the Shelter Island Library

In December 2022, one Shelter Island woman was focused on launching a program she believed would benefit the entire community. Kyle Karen had brought the concept for a Repair...

03.28.2024 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: March 28, 2024

Biases To the Editor: In your editorial of March 21, 2024, you are attempting to rewrite history. Why were there primary challenges in 2023? Gerry Siller announced he was...

02.02.2024 Featured Story

Shelter Island Reporter editorial: A gift that keeps giving

When Kyle Karen proposed starting a Repair Café on Shelter Island, the idea of recycling broken items instead of tossing them, sounded like a positive endeavor. In Ms. Karen’s...

01.30.2024 Featured Story

A place to meet, and fix the things we need: The Shelter Island ‘Repair Cafe’ is seeking volunteers

The Repair Café program, first introduced on the Island at a 2022 Board of Education meeting, is alive and thriving, and the organizer, Kyle Karen, Ph.D., a professor at...

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