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Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the editor
REPORTER FILE PHOTO In memory of one, in honor of another To the Editor: The League of Women Voters of Shelter Island has announced the inauguration of an annual scholarship award that simultaneously...
View ArticleFull-time town engineer post is suggested
Shelter Island officials should seriously consider hiring a full-time engineer to meet the town’s needs, Town Engineer John Cronin told the Capital Projects/Grants Committee last week. He’s retiring...
View ArticleFacing up to the face of Route 114
Life is ever changing. And the Island is changing — in some ways for the better, but in other ways, long-time residents would be quick to say, for the worse. Ride along Route 114 heading south from...
View ArticleComprehensive Planning: How Shelter Island got here from there
There’s always a balance between what may seem best for the community as a whole and the rights of individual property owners. Decades ago, the community was small enough that differences of opinion...
View ArticleCodger’s Column: Perfect Island
Of all Town Councilman Paul Shepherd’s gnomic sayings, Codger’s favorite is this: “When people describe the Shelter Island that should be, it is usually the Shelter Island they saw when they first...
View ArticleEsther Hunt cuts ribbon opening Mildred Flower Hird Preserve
Under a light rain that increased steadily last Friday afternoon, more than 50 people gathered on the side of a road in the Village of Dering Harbor. They were paying homage to a woman and her family...
View ArticleWhere is Bill Murray?
Call it the Groundhog Day effect, or use the philosophical term “eternal recurrence,” but the topic of what to do about Route 114 in the Center is back for discussion by the Town Board. Why has...
View ArticleShelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor
Free and brave To the Editor:Thank you, Supervisor Siller, for your comments about the state of the Island. We are truly sheltered on Shelter Island. My biggest complaint is hiring an outside...
View ArticleShelter Island Letters to the Editor, Jan. 21-26
Top and only priority To the Editor: Despite a population with the oldest median age of any town on Long Island, Shelter Island has no vaccination station in the works. This follows an amazing lack of...
View ArticleShelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: Feb. 11-18
Vaccine distribution To the Editor: While my wife and I were returning from our second 13-hour round-trip to Salem, Mass. for our second COVID-19 vaccine shot, I received an email from the Town Board...
View ArticleDickerson Creek preserve opened to public: Ribbon cutting celebrates state,...
“Long after we’re gone, people are going to say, “Wow!” That’s how Community Preservation Fund Advisory Board Chairman Gordon Gooding described sites around the Island that have been saved from...
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