COURTESY PHOTO Second graders who have been learning about community changes hear from former teacher Frank Emmett about how their own town developed.
Once a teacher, always a teacher.
Frank Emmett was back in the classroom last week — not as an elementary school teacher as he had been until his retirement in 2015, but as an historian. (more…)
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?
SUSAN LYNCH PHOTO
The 2018-19 Shelter Island School boys varsity basketball team. Front row, from left, Luke Liszansckie, Keith Taplin and Nico Seddio. Back row, from left, Coach Jay Card Jr., Dan Martin, Jack Vargas, Erik Thilberg, Walter Richards, Mason Marcello, Nick Young, Lucas Quigley-Dunning and Assistant Coach Peter Miedama.
The Shelter Island boys varsity basketball team lost a heartbreaker in Sag Harbor on December 19, falling to the Pierson Whalers 71-67 in overtime. (more…)
KARA JACKSON PHOTO
Home in Southold after a flight of fancy that took her from Southold to Shelter Island, Duckie is back where she belongs.
Kara Jackson calls it “a Christmas miracle,” talking about the return of Duckie, her pet Muscovy duck, who left Southold about a month ago. (more…)
REPORTER FILE PHOTO
Shelter Island Community Preservation Fund (CPF) revenues showed a slight recovery from the negative numbers it has reflected in 2018, but the town’s revenues for the first seven months of the year are still down by 38.4 percent, bringing in $690,000 this year compared with $1.12 million for the same period in 2017. (more…)