08.24.2016 News New poll released on short-term rentals The Shelter Island Association (SIA) presented a survey Tuesday to the Town Board on short term-rentals it conducted this month. One of the most revealing statistics from the survey,...
01.20.2016 Government Preservation funds for water? Not so fast If the town decides to put any money currently earmarked for land preservation into clean water initiatives, there have to be well-researched plans with specifically targeted projects. That’s according...
01.16.2016 Columns Codger column: Shelter Island, the movie Jim Dougherty’s fifth coronation last week was buoyant, evoking the victorious optimism of his first, in 2008, which also seemed to many a fresh start in Shelter Island politics....
01.14.2016 Government Councilman Paul Shepherd called ‘rude,’ ‘offensive,’ by resident At the end of the Town Board work session Tuesday, a resident took Councilman Paul Shepherd to task for what she termed his “rudeness,” “arrogance” and “downright offensive behavior”...
11.19.2015 Letters Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor Not just platitudes To the Editor: Veterans Day has come and gone again this year. Although there are not many of us left, I am a World War II...