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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...

10.18.2019 Community

Suffolk County Historical Society to host presentation on Gardiners Island

For residents of Shelter Island, who regard Gardiners Island as a distant, somewhat mysterious cousin, there can be few guides as well-acquainted with this 3,300-acre jewel as Karl Grossman,...

09.26.2019 Community

New North Ferry boat arrives from Maine

The newest boat in the North Ferry fleet — the Menhaden — steamed into Greenport Harbor a little after 7:30 p.m Wednesday.

07.06.2019 Community

Digging up historical secrets at Shelter Island’s Sylvester Manor

Under a baking noonday sun last week, Stephen Mrozowski and his team from the University of Massachusetts were digging up the soil to unearth Sylvester Manor’s historical secrets.

07.03.2019 Government

North Ferry Co. adds 5 a.m. ferry that departs from Shelter Island

Early risers can now depart Shelter Island for Greenport an hour earlier as a new 5 a.m. ferry officially began service Monday.

05.23.2019 Government

Fare hikes approved for North Ferry as new vessel launches

North Ferry Company has won approval from the Suffolk County Legislature for its proposed rate increase — the first in five years, according to Legislator Bridget Fleming (D-Noyac).

05.13.2019 Videos

The Work We Do: John Reuschle, Coecles Harbor Marina and Boatyard

My name is John Reuschle. I’m an [American Boat and Yacht Council]-certified marine electrician and diesel tech here at Coecles Harbor Marina and Boatyard. I’ve actually only been here...

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