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10.02.2021 Columns

Column: A new way to look at history on the East End

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner In a voice touched with emotion, Donnamarie Barnes stood under a canopy of pine trees on a...

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...

08.30.2018 North Fork History Project

North Fork History Project: Shelter Island’s place in Quaker history

It was 38 minutes into the one-hour Quaker meeting before anyone said a word. Gathered on the grounds of Sylvester Manor, seated in a wooded glade on a jumble...

07.26.2018 Health

Life lived and lost in the waves of opioid use, remembering Kirstin Zabel

When Kirstin Elizabeth Zabel was born in December 1986, her parents, Donald and Claudia, brought her home to Cartwright Road on Shelter Island. Thirty-one years later she was buried...

03.29.2018 North Fork History Project

North Fork History Project: Slavery on Shelter Island, a story not hidden away

As the hot August night wore on in the attic of the old house, she decided she couldn’t take it anymore. It was growing more stifling by the minute...

02.13.2017 Videos

One Minute Video: The sights of Shelter Island

Our video journalist Krysten Massa took a ride around Shelter Island on Wednesday, Feb. 8, one day before the area was blanketed with about a foot of snow.

10.21.2016 Videos

Shucking oysters at Shelter Island Historical Society’s annual festival

Almost 2,500 oysters were consumed this past weekend at the Shelter Island Historical Society’s third annual Oyster Festival. About 250 guests filled up Haven’s Barn on Saturday night to...

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