Shelter Island Reporter

10/12/2025

The 26th Anniversary of the Shelter Island Fall 5K Run/Walk takes place Saturday, October 18 @11 a.m. rain or shine.

The 26th Anniversary of the Shelter Island Fall 5K Run/Walk takes place Saturday, October 18 @11 a.m. rain or shine. The 3.1 mile course is a beautiful, scenic route that winds along tree-lined streets and finishes with panoramic views of the Peconic Bay right on Crescent Beach. Register at Shelt...

10/11/2025

The Town’s Emergency Management Team is closely watching weather reports and preparing for a nor’easter while hoping it doesn’t hit with the worst of high winds and heavy rains.

The Town’s Emergency Management Team is closely watching weather reports and preparing for a nor’easter while hoping it doesn’t hit with the worst of high winds and heavy rains. With the possibility of rain, high winds and floods,Sunday into Monday, Police Chief Jim Read is working with the ....

10/11/2025

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island and the North Fork will be posing questions to candidates for Shelter Island local races on Sunday between 1 and 3 p.m. at the Shelter Island School auditorium.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island and the North Fork will be posing questions to candidates for Shelter Island local races on Sunday between 1 and 3 p.m. at the Shelter Island School auditorium. Supervisor Amber Brach-Williams is seeking a second term on the Republican ticke...

10/11/2025

The Recycling Center is offering document shrredding Saturday morning betwen 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

The Recycling Center is offering document shrredding Saturday morning betwen 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. If you have materials you would like to dispose of safely, there is no charge to bring them to the Recycling Center.

10/10/2025

Amber Anglin grooms one of the last dogs she will see on Shelter Island as All Dogged Up closed Oct. 9.

It’s an exciting, but sad time for Amber Anglin. After20 years, her All Dogged Up business of groomingand boarding dogs has come to an end. A tiny signhas been posted on the door of her grooming parlorsimply advising Oct. 9 as the date the business closes.Customers were arriving last week to retri...

10/10/2025

Gardiner’s Bay Country Club is on target to solve its staff housing problem with a $5.5 million purchase of Shelter Island House on Stearns Point Road.

Gardiner’s Bay Country Club is on target to solve its staff housing problem with a $5.5 million purchase of Shelter Island House on Stearns Point Road. Members of the Country Club will be voting at a meeting on the morning of Saturday, Oct. 25, on the proposed purchase calling for $1.5 million to ...

10/10/2025

Those named in arrest reports or receiving police summonses have not been convicted of a crime. In court, the charges against them may be reduced or withdrawn or the defendants may be found not guilty. ARREST On Oct. 4, at 1:49 a.m., Michael A. Webster, 35, of Greenport was arrested following an inv...

10/10/2025

Residents have spoken and identified the single most significant need they have with respect to their prescription services.

Residents have spoken and identified the single most significant need they have with respect to their prescription services. They want a means of being able to have their doctors order prescriptions they can pick up on the Island the way they have for years. They expressed gratefulness to the Town B...

10/10/2025

Listings prepared for Times Review Media Group by Suffolk Vision Inc., dated Aug. 1, 2025. AQUEBOGUE (11931) • Haley & Mark Rolle to Elizabeth Hernandez & Faustino Rojas, 224 Church Lane (600-67-2-2.001) (R) $625,000 GREENPORT (11944) • Richard & Shayna Polk to Clinton & Kristen Dockery, 133 6th...

10/09/2025

This Week's Community Calendar

EVERY WEEK AA meetings: Keep It Simple & Early Birds Meeting in person at 7 a.m, Monday through Friday. Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. Saturdays 7:30 p.m., St. Mary’s Church.  Adult Basketball:  Sunday 11 a.m., Monday, Thursday, 8 p.m., Shelter Island School. Free, drop-in, open play. Adult Soccer:  Tue...

10/08/2025

Jenifer’s Journal: It’s complicated

Back in the 50’s — ‘simpler times,’ or so they seemed — on Friday evenings in summer, around 8:30 or so, when night finally overcame the stubborn remnants of daylight, my brothers and I would walk with our “nanny” from our house on N. Silver Beach Road to the Silver Beach flagpole to w...

10/08/2025

A new comedy short film, “Frieda Takes the Stage,” the latest in a series featuring nonagenarian Leah Friedman, will be shown on Friday evening, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Shelter Island School auditorium.

A new comedy short film, “Frieda Takes the Stage,” the latest in a series featuring nonagenarian Leah Friedman, will be shown on Friday evening, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. at the Shelter Island School auditorium. Other Island thespians, including Nancy Greene, John Kaasik and Duff Wilson, are in it, as a...