Shelter Island News

With the annual passing of the film festival finally delineating the end of the summer madness on the East End, the next season always seems to bring a strange atmospheric lull masking the fact that the art scene continues unabated.

SICC elects 2010 board Golf season may be slowing way down but the Shelter Island Country Club officers are gearing up for next year.

For photographer Victor Friedman, art is instinctive. For 45 years, Mr. Friedman has been capturing images of life in the neighborhoods he has been touched by - around Long Island, where he spends most of his week in his Shelter Island home; New York City, where he grew up and now lives and works for part of the week; and Brooklyn, where he felt ...

The Reporter's editorial staff struggled to choose which candidates to endorse from among the many strong, viable individuals willing to put their names on a ballot line this year.

Over four months ago, the Southampton Town Board sat down with leading members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and deliberated over creating a law to protect historic graves and funeral objects.

Ingrid E. Brownyard, 39, of Shelter Island, was issued a summons on October 20 for aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree, a misdemeanor, after she was involved in a car accident and a computer check revealed that her driver's license had been suspended for failing to answer a prior traffic summons.

On a recent and particularly uninviting Saturday morning, a small group of seven people gathered at 10 a.m. at Napeague Harbor Road to participate in a 3-mile poetry hike in the magnificent walking dunes.

The Fourth Season How I Met Your Mother 's fourth season is without a doubt an awesome experience.

Poised on the starting line of the 10th annual Shelter Island 5K, I was about to participate in an event that epitomizes the spirit of the Shelter Island community.

Shelter Island senior Katie Siller and her doubles partner made it through the first round of the Suffolk County Division IV individual championships at Shoreham-Wading River High School Tuesday but no further.

Southampton Town officials and representatives of the Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation met last week to discuss a bid by the foundation to take over operation and management of the shelter next year.

It's what has been very much needed: a group of East End citizens organized to fight the problem of noise from the helicopters ferrying people between Manhattan and the Hamptons.

Bayport Beach Park dedicated to Suffolk County Police Officer, Glen Ciano, a Bayport resident who was killed by an alleged drunken driver when responding to a call.

PEGGY SPELLMAN HOEY PHOTO Saltwater fishing license holder Johnny Cuebas of Sound Beach casts a line out in Mount Sinai Inlet.

The striped bass are running along with the blue fish and that's good news for local anglers.

On Tuesday, October 20, from 3 to 8 p.m., at Friendly's Restaurant in Hampton Bays, 10 percent of the sales will be donated to the seventh grade's class trip to Washington, D.C. Sag Harbor Elementary Opening night of Partners in Print 2009, a program for kindergartners and first-graders who are not yet reading or are just beginning to read, takes ...

Representatives of the Shinnecock Indian Nation visited police headquarters last Friday, October 2. They reported receiving a recent anonymous letter stating that about two years ago some workers clearing land on Shelter Island had uncovered human remains.

BEV WALZ PHOTO James Dougherty congratulates the new firefighters. In the white hat on the left is 2nd Assistant Chief John D'Amato. To his right is Nick Gross, Sean McCarthy, Martin Hunt, Robbie Brewer, Andrew Crittenden, Brian Lechmanski and Chief William Rowland.

So far so good with the Trustees challenge to the fishing license requirement. A judge granted a temporary injunction until October 13 in Southampton, Shelter Island and East Hampton that prevents the DEC from enforcing the licenses wherever the Trustees have jurisdiction.

Suffolk County Legislator Jay Schneiderman and Southampton Town Trustees Eric Shultz and Ed Warner Jr.