With little buildable property on Shelter Island left, George Soros and his family have managed to acquire 18 parcels of land ...

Animal Control Officer Jenny Zahler is always quick to respond to help an animal needing a little human assistance. But when she had a call about a young osprey chick not old enough to fledge ...

Scott Robbins Every 4th of July when I was a kid, my father had a fireworks practice of calmly saying, “Ooooo, aaaah” after every single burst, no matter how remarkable or ordinary it was. Decades ...

Catherine B. Harper’s novel recounts 400 years of history in the voice of an 1870’s house. (Courtesy photo) “I Am the House,” Catherine Harper’s historical novel, has been selected as a finalist for a ...

The summer golf season is officially in full swing at the Shelter Island Country Club, as weekly tournaments, the junior golf program and extended summer hours are now in effect. Last weekend, the ...

If July is beginning with a major celebration of the nation’s 250th Anniversary, weeks later another local event speaks to the character of Shelter Island. The Lions Club and Gardiner’s Bay Country ...

Madonna’s 1985 anthem “Material Girl” looks very quaint in 2026. As she sang that “the boy with the cold hard cash is always ...

Knicks mania came to the Shelter Island 10K on Saturday, June 20. At Wilson Circle there was a banner near the check-in desk.

Robert L. Morgan of Shelter Is-land passed away on Sunday, June 28, 2026. He was 80 years old. The family will receive friends on Wednesday, July 8 from 4 to 7 p.m. at the DeFriest-Grattan Shelter ...

The Island is small but it is a giant when it comes to generosity demonstrated most recently by the amount of scholarship money given to this year’s graduating class. The graduates had received a ...

Beachcombers came across an unpleasant sight on the pebbled shoreline at Bailie Beach in Mattituck on Tuesday — a seven-foot ...