Sag Harbor Archives - Shelter Island Reporter

04/05/19 8:00am

Richard’s almanac: singing at the Senior Center

The Shelter Island Senior Center now has a karaoke machine.

It sounded like some back road honkytonk on a Saturday night. But it was not. The karaoke music was coming from the Shelter Island Senior Activity Center.

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Columns

02/23/19 11:00am

Suffolk Closeup: Disaster guaranteed — off-shore drilling

by Karl Grossman

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It’s been decades since a fisherman told me about seeing a ship east of Montauk similar to those he had seen searching for oil in the Gulf of Mexico when he was a shrimper there. I telephoned oil company after company and each gave a firm denial about having any interest in looking for petroleum off Long Island. (more…)

Deepwater Horizon, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Michael LeVine, Montauk, Nova Scotia, Sag Harbor, Santa Barbara oil spill, Shell Canada, State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, the Ocean Conservancy

Community

02/20/19 4:30pm

Richard’s almanac: A tale of two ferries

by Richard Lomuscio

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MAP BY KIKI BOUCHER
Which is your go-to fork, North or South?

As a Shelter Islander, do you tend to identify with the North Fork or the South Fork?

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Community

02/20/19 12:00pm

Sylvester Manor celebrates black history

by Reporter Staff

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SCOTT FEIERSTEIN PHOTO From left, Donnamarie Barnes of Sylvester Manor, Henry Maxwell Letcher II, Shane Weeks, Karl Schwarz and Georgette Grier-Key during the 2018 panel discussion at Bay Street Theater in honor of Black History Month.

Panelists will discuss slavery on the East End at the Bay Street Theater on Sunday, February 24, from 2 to 4 p.m.

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african, Bay Street Theater, black history, East Hampton, East Hampton Plain Sight Project, East Hampton Star, Eastville Community Historical Society, Hempsted Houses of Connecticut Landmarks, History, Long Island, Montauk, New York, North Fork, Sag Harbor, Shelter Island, South Fork, Southampton, Sylvester Manor

Featured Story

02/01/19 12:00pm

Legislation crafted to fund affordable housing

by Tara Smith

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New legislation introduced by Assemblyman Fred Thiele (I-Sag Harbor) could allow the five East End towns to establish a Town Community Housing Fund.

If created, the fund could be used to provide financial assistance to first-time homebuyers; create opportunities for owning and rental housing; and rehabilitate existing buildings for community housing. (more…)

Assemblyman Fred Thiele, Community Preservation Fund, Sag Harbor

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