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Deputy Supervisor Amber Brach-Williams, left, and Town Clerk Dorothy Ogar at Tuesday’s budget meeting.
The Town Board adopted a preliminary $12.9 million budget Tuesday that would raise spending by 5.3 percent for 2019. But before final adoption takes place, there will be a public hearing on the proposal on Wednesday, November 7, at 1 p.m. (more…)
BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTO The ribbon was cut last month by Supervisor Gary Gerth to open the pavilion at Wades Beach, a gift from the Shelter Island Lions Club Foundation. From left, Councilman Jim Colligan, Councilwoman Amber Brach-Williams, Mr. Gerth, Councilman Paul Shepherd, Councilman Albert Dickson and Lions Club member Don D’Amato.
What would Shelter Island do without the Lions Club? One thing is certain— it would be a less caring and comforting place. (more…)
ELEANOR P. LABROZZI PHOTO
The Inuit people, it’s been said, have more than a hundred words to describe snow. There are words describing snow that falls in large or small flakes, blowing snow and even a word for remembered snow. (more…)
REPORTER FILE PHOTO | Shelter Island Highway Department snow plows were ready for action Monday.
Back at it.
That was the theme for the Shelter Island Highway Department crews who were back on the streets and roads of the Island Monday. (more…)
AMBROSE CLANCY PHOTO | Snowed in. Ice cyrstals forming on a Silver Beach kitchen window.
With snow falling at a rate of four inches an hour, road crews for the Shelter Island Highway Department fought a fast-striking and cagey opponent last night. (more…)