12.16.2021 News Legislation to allow a cash crop in the bays that saves the environment New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed legislation on Dec. 7 permitting Suffolk County to lease underwater land in the Peconic Estuary for kelp and other seaweed cultivation, according...
10.13.2021 News Stony Brook scientist: Algae blooms, dead zones are ‘new normal’ in East End waters Conditions causing low oxygen and harmful algae blooms in Long Island waters — including on the East End — have become a “new normal,” according to this year’s water...
06.13.2021 Letters Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: June 3-10 Medicare for all To the Editor: As journalist Sara Austin emphasized in a November 2020 article (“Thank you to our front line health care workers,” Riverhead News-Review) Suffolk County...
05.22.2021 News Researchers launch pilot study to learn more about seal population now inhabiting local waters When I first started fishing on Long Island in the early 1980s, observing a marine mammal in the wild was an extremely rare occurrence. Due to years of unregulated...
05.20.2021 Obituaries Shelter Island Reporter obituary: Nicholas G. Morehead After a long and courageous battle with cancer, Nicholas G. Morehead, 46, died peacefully at home surrounded by love on May 10, 2021. Nick was born in New York...
