04.27.2019 Columns Suffolk Closeup: County confronts the perils of plastic With Earth Day celebrated this week, three cheers to the Suffolk County Legislature for just passing a set of measures aimed at restricting the use of plastic, the substance...
12.18.2017 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO IN HISTORY Louis Washkansky, the first person to undergo a heart transplant, died 18 days later in Cape Town, South Africa, as a result of drugs...
09.02.2016 Island Profiles Profile: He prepared the Island for its first close-up When Bob Markell was 8 years old he got the measles, and was treated by a doctor who praised his young patient’s artistic ability. “He was just being nice,...
02.01.2015 Columns Suffolk Closeup: The right side of history Hooray for the Towns of Southampton and East Hampton for instituting bans on those single-use plastic bags that litter our landscape and impact on wildlife.