Shelter Island News

When this dredging at Shell Beach in October 2012 took place, South Ferry president Cliff Clark was hoping the equipment would move to the channel between Shelter Island and North Haven, but now he's looking to October 2014 and hoping no emergency will develop in the interim.

Shelter Island School Superintendent Michael Hynes will be the featured speaker at the League of Women Voters of Shelter Island annual meeting and brunch on Saturday, June 29, according to Lois B. Morris, LWVSI president.

It is safe to assume that most people reading this editorial have either been afflicted with a tick borne illness or at the very least have a family member or friend who has suffered the consequences of a tick bite.

Surely Charles Dickens was correct when he famously wrote, "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as hilarity," which explains why we are experiencing an epidemic of laughter at the Bay Street Theatre this summer.

We have to admit, when we first saw what Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan's Shelter Island, NY home looked like when they bought it, we were shocked.

Bryan Knipfing sprinting just a few yards from the finish line Saturday as the first Islander to complete the 10K.

Joy Bausman, center, with Ben Jones and Marian Brownlie at a dinner recently at the Ram's Head Inn celebrating her more than three decades of service to the community.

Plans are being made to dredge part of the channel between North Haven and Shelter Island next year, in an attempt to deal with shifting sediment that threatens to make the water too shallow for the South Ferry to safely move cars and trucks.

The top local runners were Keith Steinbrecher of Wading River , Bryan Knipfing of Shelter Island Heights , Rick Buckheit of Southold and Kyle Lehman of Cutchogue .

Ayele Megersa Feyisa ran a time most human beings could only dream about, and recorded a triumph only a tiny percentage of runners ever get to experience, yet he was disappointed, nonetheless.

Since its inception in 1981, the Shelter Island 10K has generated more than $600,000 in race proceeds to benefit regional organizations.

The race may not be until Saturday, but the Friday before the Shelter Island 10K is still a busy day on the Island as many of the area's youth and race organizers prepare for the event and the annual pre-race pasta party is held.

Surely Charles Dickens was correct when he famously wrote, "There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as hilarity," which explains why we are experiencing an epidemic of laughter at the Bay Street Theatre this summer.

Every long distance race has a place, a moment, when the athlete's endurance and will is tested.

The crowd at the start of the race in 2003 was captured by staff photographer Beverlea Walz, who will be on hand Saturday to shoot this year's event.

Supreme Court Justice Emily Pines could impose a ruling in mid July on whether Melissa Ko and S. Douglas Hahn have to pay for any part of this driveway installed at their house.

Here's an overview of all the working parts of the 10K run and 5K walk to help participants make the most of both events.

Building a business on Shelter Island has been a little like climbing Mount Everest for Melina Wein, who founded her own real estate brokerage here in 1998, seven years after she and her husband Marc made their climb to the 18,000-foot base camp on their honeymoon.

Those named in arrest reports or receiving police summonses have not been convicted of a crime.

Shelter Island Historical Society Executive Director Nanette Breiner-Lawrenson wanted to make one thing clear: "This isn't about old stuff."