The Shelter Island Country Club (SICC) welcomed back the crew from John Hummel Custom Builders last week for their second annual private outing, a summer tradition that’s quickly becoming one of the ...

One sound of summer, which can bring joyful memories for older folks and happy anticipation for youngsters, can become nerve-wracking and disruptive of peace and quite when it’s on endless repeat. One ...

Monday, July 21, the beginning of the work week, will be warm and sunny on Shelter Island, according to the National Weather ...

Shelter Island Police Officer Sean Clark is on the job at Wilson Circle, with a companion eager (or not) to lend assistance.

Vinette Olinkiewicz passed away in Stony Brook Hospital in the early hours of July 17, 2025, after a nearly month-long battle with illness, just shy of her 58th birthday. Born in Colorado Springs, ...

The Menantic Yacht Club (MYC) held its third series of Sunfish races this past Sunday, July13, in light, shifty winds blowing between 2 and maybe 8 knots, with some dead spots, all of which I managed ...

We were talking in the newsroom about obituaries recently — “obits” in newspaper speak. Obituary: From the Latin verb obire, ...

Section 73.4 of the Shelter Island Code requires people disposing of “Wet Garbage” to do so (i) either by having the trash weighed and pay a per pound fee or (ii) by purchasing Town trash bags and ...

On July 16, a hot Shelter Island day, Jennifer Fogarty spotted a duckling separated from its mother swimming helplessly against the current off Silver Beach.  “I didn’t see any other ducks around,” Ms ...