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04/15/19 12:00pm

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.

Winners at the 23rd Annual Tony Awards were “Great White Hope” and “1776.”

The first human eye transplant was performed at Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas.

Melina Mercouri, a Greek actress, whose breakout film was “Never on Sunday,” for which she won a Cannes Film Festival Award, established the Greek Aid Fund.

An earthquake measured as a 2 on a scale of 1 to 5 struck in North Carolina, killing two people and injuring 30.

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“Never on Sunday”, Board of Education, Dave Zyglewick, Garden Club of Shelter Island, Greek Aid Fund, Melina Mercouri, Peconic Land Trust, permethrin, piping plovers, Ram Island Association, Reel Point, Second Causeway, Shelter Island Association, Shelter Island deer population, The Group for the East End, The Group for the South For

Community

09/01/18 11:00am

Town Supervisor Gary Gerth to speak at Union Chapel service

by Reporter Staff

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Town Supervisor Gary Gerth will be the guest speaker at Union Chapel’s next service.

Town Supervisor Gary Gerth will be the speaker this coming Sunday at the annual Shelter Island Association service Sunday at 10:30 am at Union Chapel in the Grove.

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Congregational Church of Bay Shore, Gary Gerth, labor day, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, Reformed Church in America, Shelter Island, Shelter Island Association, St. John’s University, summer, the Grove, town supervisor, Union chapel

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04/30/18 8:00am

This week in history

by Julie Lane

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Old, open book with a damaged cover.

50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY

United States and North Vietnamese officials agreed to begin peace talks in Paris.

A general strike escalated in France, shutting down newspaper distributions, air transport and two major railroads and moving the country nearer to the brink of a radical leftist revolution.

Forward Pass, ridden by jockey Ismael Valenzuela, was declared the winner of the Kentucky Derby after Dancer Image was disqualified due to doping.

The Boston Celtics won the NBA Championship 4 games to 2 over the Los Angeles Lakers.

William Styron won a Pulitzer Prize for literature for his 1967 novel, “The Confessions of Nat Turner.”

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Baxter, brush burning, Cablevision, Dancer Image, FDA, GlaxoSmithKlein, Ismael Valenzuela, Joan Kilroy, LYMErix, Shelter Island Association, SmithKlineBeecham, Suffolk County Department of Health Services, Valneva, water conservation

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12/28/17 3:00pm

Year in Review: A quiet start, a loud finish to 2017 politics

by Ambrose Clancy

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The candidates for Town board in 2017. Clockwise from lower left, Albert Dickson, Supervisor Jim Dougherty, Gary Gerth, Marcus Kaasik and Councilwoman Amber Brach-Williams.

PETER WALDNER ILLUSTRATION The candidates for Town board in 2017. Clockwise from lower left, Albert Dickson, Supervisor Jim Dougherty, Gary Gerth, Marcus Kaasik and Councilwoman Amber Brach-Williams.

It was a relatively quiet campaign season on Shelter Island to fill two Town Board seats and elect a supervisor.

Republican Councilwoman Amber Brach-Williams, running for reelection, was considered such a shoo-in that she wasn’t even challenged by the Democrats, who put up Albert Dickson, chairman of the town’s Water Advisory Committee, as the only Democrat challenging for the two seats. Councilwoman Chris Lewis announced early on she was retiring, and the GOP put up political newcomer Marcus Kaasik to run. (more…)

Amber Brach-Williams, Ambrose Clancy, Jim Dougherty, permethrin, Shelter Island Association, State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, the League of Women Voters of Shelter Island, tickicide

Community

12/01/17 4:30pm

‘Tis the season of giving

by Annette Hinkle

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SHELTER ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Shelter Island takes care of its own. These Island groups represent all age groups and address a range of community programs and services, supported largely by volunteer efforts and donations. In addition, each of the Island’s churches provides outreach programs. During this season, please consider helping out or lending a hand — and let us know if we have inadvertently omitted any group.
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