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1 week ago | 
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Ambrose Clancy |Amanda Olsen
Lee Zeldin, former U.S. Congressman representing the East End and current head of the Environmental Protection Agency, spoke at a Long Island Association special event at the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury on April 11 about how the EPA’s shifting priorities affect Long Island.
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2 weeks ago | 
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Ambrose Clancy
If you know, let us know. Send your responses to or phone 631-275-1859. Last week’s photo of the front room of Black Cat Books (see below), a treasure for East End bibliophiles — or anyone seeking a few minutes of peace from a world that is at times much too loud — was identified by Diane McNeil as soon as the paper was published last Thursday. Diane phoned us to say, “I love that shop.”Honorable mention goes to Roger McKeon, who thought it was “Our library,” and Regina Hartley said the same.
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3 weeks ago | 
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Ambrose Clancy
Once again, those outside on Shelter Island and the North and South forks on Thursday, March 27, saw rising towers of gray and white smoke soaring skyward. The fuel for the smoke was a second controlled burn — or “prescribed fire” — at Mashomack, where 80 acres of woodlands was burned, bringing the total acreage of forest consumed to 180, with 100 acres burned Sunday, March 22.
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3 weeks ago | 
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Ambrose Clancy
Been fooled yet? We don’t mean over the course of your life — only a liar says they’ve never been taken — but specifically today. Check the calendar and resolve to be even more careful about what you see and hear. April Fools’ Day, the annual anniversary celebrated by tricksters, pranksters and other perverse sorts, is nothing new and not unique to us, according to history.com but is “celebrated,” for lack of a better term, by many different cultures.
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3 weeks ago | 
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Ambrose Clancy
The Shelter Island School softball team won handily in its first home game of the season against Southold/Greenport/Mattituck on Thursday, March 27. The Islanders won 22-10, with the “mercy rule” taking effect. (The mercy rule allows a game to end early if a team is ahead of its opponent by a large margin after a certain number of innings have been played.)It was a cold afternoon and early evening, with light falling fast in the early spring day.
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3 weeks ago | 
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Ambrose Clancy
If you know, let us know. Send your responses to or phone 631-275-1859. No one heard this rooster’s call from last week (see below). The proud bird is perched on the boulder outside the Our Lady of the Isle’s Parish offices. He gains significance every Lenten season leading to Easter, said Father Peter DeSanctis. “The rooster is a symbol of Easter, and he brings good and bad news.”First the bad news.
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4 weeks ago | 
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Ambrose Clancy
Elizabeth Price Hansel passed away on March 17, 2025, St. Patrick’s Day, at Peconic Landing, where she resided for the past 20 years. Betty lived an extraordinary, long, and fabulous life, her family said, passing away just short of her 102nd birthday. She was born Elizabeth McKee Price on April 12, 1923 in Pittsburgh, Pa. to Ralph and Mildred Price, joining her older brother Jack. At 17 she attended Carnegie Mellon University.
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4 weeks ago | 
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Ambrose Clancy |Amanda Olsen
Ben Smith is one of the few Islanders who isn’t concerned about the price of eggs. The issue of egg prices dominated the presidential election of 2024, and has been on the mind of everyone, especially those raising families. But Mr. Smith — owner and operator of Island Exterior Cleaning — and his wife Callie, get all the eggs they want from their flock of more than 50 birds in the efficient, clean, and well-maintained coop on their South Ferry Road property.
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1 month ago | 
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Ambrose Clancy
Your hometown paper brought home five prestigious awards across all editorial categories — news writing, columns, feature writing, feature photos and editorials — from the New York Press Association’s (NYPA) Spring Convention, held Thursday and Friday, March 20-21, in Saratoga. Judged by members of the Missouri Press Association, NYPA’s “Better Newspaper Contest” fielded 2,082 entries from 154 newspapers across the state. Participating newspapers competed for awards in 68 categories.
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1 month ago | 
shelterislandreporter.timesreview.com | Ambrose Clancy
The Shelter Island Police Department welcomed its newest officer, Jalill Carter, who graduated from the Suffolk County Police Academy on March 21, after enrolling in the Academy in August 2024. According to Police Chief Jim Read, Officer Carter will begin “field training” with the Department, working alongside veteran officers for the next two months.
