Island profile: Cindy Belt, working, coaching and leading
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTOCindy Belt at Mashomack, grateful for work she loves in a place she feels lucky to have found. The American humorist Garrison Keillor tells of a mythical small town where, “All the...
View ArticleShelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor
REPORTER FILE PHOTO| The deer or us To the Editor: Michael Coles’ recent letter (“Time to turn pro,” June 25) was an excellent summary of our tick problem on the Island. Although a Bambi lover, I...
View ArticleProfile: Carmen Chinea, seeing ‘a little me’ in every immigrant
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTOCarmen Chinea at her Hay Beach home. The urge to help neighbors seems to seep into the soul of people who call Shelter Island home. Carmen Chinea, who has spent summers here with her...
View ArticleScallop season opens with optimism
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO | John and Nancy Kotula, 5:20 a.m. Monday, opening day of the scallop season, at Congdon Creek Dock. On the first Monday in November, New York baymen take their boats out in the...
View ArticleShelter Island Reporter Editorial: A bright November
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO Island scallopers heading out from Congdon Creek at sunrise. Early November is a time of Halloween hangovers, abbreviated afternoons, yard signs screaming for votes and, at least...
View ArticleColumn: Keeping the ship on course
REPORTER FILE PHOTO | Town Councilman Ed Brown is stepping down at the end of the year. BY COUNCILMAN ED BROWN During this past political season there were public comments and rumors regarding the...
View ArticleTown Board members and supervisor at odds over repaving money
JULIE LANE PHOTOAt odds over repaving Island roads are Supervisor Jim Dougherty (left) and Councilman Jim Colligan. The money Highway Superintendent Jay Card Jr. had expected to be transferred to the...
View ArticleIsland Profile: Stephen Searl — Old family farms and the power of peaches
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTOStephen Searl beside Gardiner’s Creek at Sylvester Manor. Pre-Revolutionary-era houses held by the same family, and largely un-renovated are scarce on the East End of Long Island....
View ArticleShelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor
REPORTER FILE PHOTO| The deer or us To the Editor: Michael Coles’ recent letter (“Time to turn pro,” June 25) was an excellent summary of our tick problem on the Island. Although a Bambi lover, I...
View ArticleProfile: Carmen Chinea, seeing ‘a little me’ in every immigrant
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTOCarmen Chinea at her Hay Beach home. The urge to help neighbors seems to seep into the soul of people who call Shelter Island home. Carmen Chinea, who has spent summers here with her...
View ArticleScallop season opens with optimism
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO | John and Nancy Kotula, 5:20 a.m. Monday, opening day of the scallop season, at Congdon Creek Dock. On the first Monday in November, New York baymen take their boats out in the...
View ArticleShelter Island Reporter Editorial: A bright November
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO Island scallopers heading out from Congdon Creek at sunrise. Early November is a time of Halloween hangovers, abbreviated afternoons, yard signs screaming for votes and, at least...
View ArticleColumn: Keeping the ship on course
REPORTER FILE PHOTO | Town Councilman Ed Brown is stepping down at the end of the year. BY COUNCILMAN ED BROWN During this past political season there were public comments and rumors regarding the...
View ArticleTown Board members and supervisor at odds over repaving money
JULIE LANE PHOTOAt odds over repaving Island roads are Supervisor Jim Dougherty (left) and Councilman Jim Colligan. The money Highway Superintendent Jay Card Jr. had expected to be transferred to the...
View ArticleIsland Profile: Stephen Searl — Old family farms and the power of peaches
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTOStephen Searl beside Gardiner’s Creek at Sylvester Manor. Pre-Revolutionary-era houses held by the same family, and largely un-renovated are scarce on the East End of Long Island....
View ArticleHigh School senior selected for state-wide honor
Shelter Island High School senior Mia Clark was recently chosen to be one of 25 students from across New York State to become a “Presidential Scholar.” This is not a scholarship program for which...
View ArticleOld friends from 1927 reunited on the Island
JULIE LANE PHOTOBob Edwards, now living in Houston, paid a visit to his friend, Jean Brechter, at her home here last month. The two were summer kids together for many years. Once toddlers together, old...
View ArticleProfile: Carmen Chinea, seeing ‘a little me’ in every immigrant
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTOCarmen Chinea at her Hay Beach home. The urge to help neighbors seems to seep into the soul of people who call Shelter Island home. Carmen Chinea, who has spent summers here with her...
View ArticleScallop season opens with optimism
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO | John and Nancy Kotula, 5:20 a.m. Monday, opening day of the scallop season, at Congdon Creek Dock. On the first Monday in November, New York baymen take their boats out in the...
View ArticleShelter Island Reporter Editorial: A bright November
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO Island scallopers heading out from Congdon Creek at sunrise. Early November is a time of Halloween hangovers, abbreviated afternoons, yard signs screaming for votes and, at least...
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