Shelter Island Reporter

12/13/2025

Chase Creek tree lighting.

One of the most delightful Shelter Island Christmas traditions is the setting up and lighting of the Christmas tree in the middle of Chase Creek that brings beauty to dark December nights. On Friday, Dec. 12, the tradition endured for the 42nd second year.  It all began a few days earler, when Rich...

12/13/2025

Dec. 13 Island weather report.

It will be a mostly cloudy Saturday for Shelter Island, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). The high temperature will reach 43 degrees, but a southwest wind at 5 to 10 mph and gusting as high as 20 mph will make it feel more like 25 to 35 degrees. Tonight there’s a chance for...

12/12/2025

Readers weigh in.

CLARIFY THE FACTS To the Editor: In her Dec. 4 letter, Kathleen DeRose, with no basis in fact, cites the Library as an example of runaway costs and mounting liabilities. Her gratuitous accusations are misleading and incorrect. I am writing to clarify the facts.  • The average household pays about...

12/12/2025

What being 'vulnerable' means.

According to Merriam-Webster, the word “vulnerable” comes from the Latin vulnus, which in a later Latin transformation became vulnerabilis. English transformed it once again to our “vulnerable,” which the dictionary defines as, “Capable of being easily hurt or harmed physically, mentally, ...

12/12/2025

(Credit: Peter Waldner)

12/12/2025

Market report.

Listings prepared for Times Review Media Group by Suffolk Vision Inc., dated Oct. 3, 2025. SHELTER ISLAND (11964) • John Sieni to Hugh & Eileen Caulfield, 23C West Neck Road (700-14-3-75.010) (R) $1,675,000 SHELTER ISLAND Heights (11965) • Victoria Weickert to Virginia Weickert & Marc Rocco, 9 T...

12/11/2025

Police news for the week.

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 In court, the charges against them may be reduced or withdrawn or the defendants may be found not guilty. SUMMONSES On Nov. 29, Mark R. Haag of Silver Spring, Md. received a summons for failing to stop at...

12/11/2025

Making a plan.

Just a few days after the Reporter’s Community Forum on Shelter Island vulnerabilities and how to counteract them), the Town Board discussed the same subject at its work session on Tuesday, Dec. 9. Police Chief Jim Read, who is also the Emergency Management Coordinator for the Town, outlined for B...

12/11/2025

Mark your calendars.

EVERY WEEK AA meetings: Keep It Simple & Early Birds Meeting in person at 7 a.m, Monday through Friday, 8:30 Saturdays. 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. Adu...

12/10/2025

Boys basketball report.

Shelter Island’s varsity boys basketball team now has no wins against three losses, dropping their first two non-league contests, at the Ross School 68-38 and at home against the Mattituck Tuckers Dec. 3, and most recently, their first league game at home against St. Pius V School on Monday, Dec. ...

12/10/2025

Girls basketball report.

It isn’t unusual for Shelter Island teams to have a limited roster. This year, the girls junior varsity basketball team has an exceptionally small pool of talent with only six athletes on the squad.  However, within 6 seconds of the tip-off of their first game on Friday, Dec. 5, that number dropp...

12/10/2025

Cornucopia will be closing.

Mary Lou Eichhorn has shared the news that her unique gift shop, Cornucopia, will close its doors on Dec. 30 after 45 years. Until then, Mary Lou will be in the shop, down a lane at 27 West Neck Road, to chat with Islanders and guide their gift-giving. The source for handmade gifts, cards, wraps...