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10.05.2020 COVID-19

Shelter Island 10K canceled amid lingering COVID-19 concerns

The Shelter Island 10K will not be held this year. The popular event, now in its 41st year and previously set for Nov. 7, has been pulled from the...

09.01.2020 Education

Shelter Island school board votes unanimously to retire the nickname Indians

The Shelter Island School Board of Education met on Monday evening, ending six weeks of research and discussion into the question of retiring the nickname ‘Indians’ and the image...

08.18.2020 Education

Shelter Island will decide fate of Indians nickname this month

The debate surrounding the Shelter Island School’s team name of the Indians came to the fore at its Board of Education meeting Monday night. The floor was opened to...

08.13.2020 News

Beyonce’s new Disney+ special filmed on Shelter Island

An entertainment superstar landed on Shelter Island last year and stayed for a video shoot. Last summer, Sylvester Manor hosted Beyoncé and provided locations for her new visual album,...

08.01.2020 Education

On Shelter Island, a debate is again brewing over the school nickname Indians

A campaign’s afoot on social media asking the Shelter Island Board of Education to get rid of the school’s sports teams name, the Indians. A change.org petition, along with...

07.18.2020 Government

New plans show revised route for Greenport ferry traffic, with entrance on Fourth instead of Wiggins

Engineers are revising preliminary design plans for the North Ferry terminal area that could see the ferry line entrance accessed from Fourth Street rather than Wiggins Street. Engineers are...

04.20.2020 News

Rescue in the bay: North Ferry crew rescues Greenport boater

“One soul in the water, one retrieved. Everybody’s alive and the boat’s been retrieved,” Captain James Cogan reported on VHF radio aboard the North Ferry boat Mashomack just after...

04.18.2020 COVID-19

Shelter Island ferry companies requiring passengers to wear masks in cars

The North and South ferry companies, which operate vessels to Shelter Island, have issued directives that all customers boarding boats, even those in vehicles, must wear face masks or...

03.27.2020 COVID-19

Shelter Island nurse tells her story from the front lines of the pandemic

Kelly Surerus is working 13-hour days, five days a week with some extra days thrown in. She gets the first boat before dawn from South Ferry to go to...

03.03.2020 Police

Shelter Island mystery: Wancura investigation two years on with no resolution

He thought he was prepared for the worst. But what Father Charles McCarron discovered, checking on an elderly friend and colleague one midday two years ago, was a horrific...

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