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Daily Update: Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: A way of life
2 days ago · Here are the headlines for Monday, November 11. SHELTER ISLAND REPORTER Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: A way of life SUFFOLK TIMES Cutchogue colonel retires after 18 years at the 106th Town Board adopts $62.3M 2025 budget RIVERHEAD NEWS-REVIEW Town gets creative to cleanup Meetinghouse Creek NORTHFORKER Stretch Garden is ready to help your body blossom...
Shelter Island Reporter Editorial: A way of life
4 days ago · We know something isn’t right in this world, with startling statistics of the steep drop of scallops living in our bays. Researchers have listed that the scallop yield for 2022-2023 was 5,537 pounds. The following season was 6,057, but going back to 2018-2019 it was a whopping 110,802. The absolute bottom was 2020-21, when 56 pounds of ...
Bringing light to memories on Taylor’s Island: Shelter Islanders …
1 day ago · The Smith-Taylor cabin on Taylor’s Island was the setting for a gathering to celebrate happy memories made in the glow of a ship’s wheel chandelier that hung above the fireplace until the mid-90s. Thanks to some sentimental guys who wanted to see it back, it hangs in its place again. Taylor’s Island is a...
Residents weigh in on Shelter Island Town budget
1 day ago · In the 19th century, the waters around Shelter Island thrived with oyster reefs, and for most of the 20th century huge bay scallop harvests were a boon to the economy and the health of our creeks and bays. As recently as 2018, the Peconics saw annual harvests worth $1.5 million to local baymen. But since...
First Shelter Island Reporter Community Forum airs the issues
Sep 29, 2024 · A gathering of about 100 Islanders packed the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church Parish Hall on Thursday, Sept. 26, to be part of the Reporter’s inaugural Community Forum. Sponsored by Dime Bank, the event was titled, “The Future of Shelter Island: Water, Housing, Health Care,” and included a panel of experts — Gregory Toner, Elizabeth Hanley,...
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Oct 29, 2024 · Shelter Island Reporter real estate transfers: Oct. 30, 2024. Listings prepared for Times Review Media Group by Suffolk Vision Inc., dated Aug. 23, 2024. SHELTER ISLAND heights (11965) • Eugene Luntey Trust to Ronnie Salzman & Jerome Zisfein,... 10.29.2024.
The Future of Shelter Island — A public discussion: Inaugural …
Sep 22, 2024 · The economics of the business and Shelter Island had changed, the publisher said in a public notice, forcing the paper to adapt. During the last 25 years there has been a decline of small, locally-owned businesses, and an increase in off-Island ownership groups, which affected the Reporter’s advertising base.
Grant to fund Shelter Island ferry study to deal with rising sea levels
Dec 8, 2023 · Shelter Island has received a $190,000 grant from the federal Department of Homeland Security to pay for a study on plans to ensure ferry service in an emergency. The aim, Town Engineer Joe Finora told the Town Board at Tuesday’s work session, is to plug holes in existing plans that limit how to respond to rising sea levels due to climate ...
Shelter Island Reporter editorial: Right here, right now
Jan 19, 2024 · In Ernest Hemingway’s novel, “The Sun Also Rises,” one character asks his friend, “How did you go bankrupt?” The friend replies, “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” That dualism can be applied to a lot of situations, and for many Shelter Islanders, it can be an answer to the question: When did you become aware of...