Shelter Island

Sinta Quartet
Arts Music Shelter Island

Stunning Saxophone Quartet Takes Up Residency on Shelter Island Next Week

East End Beacon
A world-class saxophone quartet is taking residency on Shelter Island and the North Fork July 19 through July 22, with five chances for East Enders to hear this "alarmingly good and ravishingly charming"ensemble, including at CAST in Southold July 22. The Shelter Island Friends of Music hosts the Sinta Quartet for a free concert on Sunday, July 19 at 6 p.m. at the Shelter Island Presbyterian Church, where they'll perform works by
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On the North Ferry, Shelter Island
Announcements Recent Shelter Island

Shelter Island FerryPass Is Back Up and Running

Beth Young
After a three-week outage due to a "system-wide service disruption," the North Ferry's FerryPass electronic payment system is back up and running. The ferry company, which provides service between Greenport and Shelter Island, announced March 1 that the payment portal at ferrypass.com is working again, allowing users of the system to reload their FerryPass cards in order to pay for fares to and from the island. The ferry company also
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Government Recent Shelter Island

Shelter Island Sets Comp Plan as Top Priority in the New Year

Beth Young
A lack of expertise in desktop publishing software at Shelter Island Town Hall has slowed the progress of the town's long-awaited Comprehensive Plan Update, but the town believes it has found an employee who can make the changes this winter, with the hopes of holding public hearings on the document by late April. The latest public draft of the document guiding the town's future development was released in the summer
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Shelter Island Town Supervisor Amber Brach-Williams and Councilman Gordon Gooding at the Oct. 19 debate.
2025 Elections Shelter Island

Shelter Island Candidates on Protecting a Fragile Place

Beth Young
Living on a small island accentuates the many challenges and pressures also felt on the big island of Long Island. The candidates running for office on Shelter Island this year each have nuanced views about the best ways to protect groundwater, provide safe drinking water and housing that's affordable, and guide business and development for a sustainable future. Contenders for Shelter Island Town Supervisor, two seats on the Town Board,
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Community Featured Health Shelter Island

Shelter Island Pharmacy No Longer Filling Prescriptions

Beth Young
Update Oct. 8: Colonial Drugs in Greenport will be able to deliver to Shelter Island seven days a week, said Town Supervisor Amber Brach-Williams as the Town Board updated the public on issues related to the pharmacy closure at its Oct. 7 work session. She added that, at Sunday's community forum, "the biggest takeaway is that people want a pharmacy on Shelter Island and we need to continue to work
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Arts Featured Shelter Island Visual Arts

A Return to Paradise on Shelter Island

Beth Young
When the Sylvester family of Anglo-Dutch traders sought refuge on Shelter Island in the late 1600s, it was a time of worldwide upheaval. Religious persecution, the advent of global trade and the beginning of the trading of enslaved people from Africa in that century would reshape society in ways that destroyed innocence worldwide. Pictured Above: Sculptor Walter Channing's "Dancing Bird" outside the peacock house at Sylvester Manor. John Milton's epic
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Environment Featured Peconic Bathtub Shelter Island

Shelter Island Teams Up with CCE to Build Seahorse Hotels

Beth Young
by Jeanne Marie Merkel & Beth Young On an afternoon in late May, just after school let out, Shelter Island Middle and High School students embarked on a rare experience on the lawn of the neighboring Community Center — becoming the first students on the East End to build "seahorse hotels," an experimental new habitat restoration project made from recycled aquaculture gear. Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Program's new "Seahorse Hotel
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Greenport Shelter Island Top Stories Transit

New Greenport Ferry Queue Opens Ahead of Memorial Day Weekend

Beth Young
The renovated queue for the North Ferry to Shelter Island in Greenport opened to the public just in time for Memorial Day Weekend, after several months of construction and nearly a decade of planning. In addition to the Village of Greenport's construction of the new queue, the North Ferry company has been changing the grade at the entrance to one of its ferry slips this spring, putting it out of
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Arts Shelter Island Top Stories Visual Arts

Mysteries in the Shelter Island Woods

Beth Young
“There isn’t any place comparable in this part of the world,” says curator Tom Cugliani of Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, where he has launched an ambitious sculpture exhibition throughout the woodlands and gardens of the former provisioning plantation. Mr. Cugliani, who has been exploring the property since he was a child on Shelter Island, has expertly installed works by 25 accomplished local artists in this environment, some of which
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sculpture at sylvester manor
Arts Shelter Island Visual Arts

New Sculpture Exhibit Explores Sylvester Manor’s Past & Future

East End Beacon
A new outdoor sculpture exhibition opens next weekend on the grounds of Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, featuring works by 25 East End artists, including some pieces that address the former slaveholding plantation’s past and others that promise a leave-no-trace future, using organic material found onsite that will biodegrade back into the landscape. This inaugural exhibition runs from June 22 through Sept. 7 and is curated by Tom Cugliani, who
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Amber Brach-Williams and Gordon Gooding are running for Shelter Island Town Supervisor
2023 Elections Shelter Island

On Shelter Island: Debating How Best to Curb Rampant Development

Beth Young
Pictured Above: Amber Brach-Williams and Gordon Gooding are running for Shelter Island Town Supervisor The perils of overdevelopment are a refrain that we’ve been hearing over and over again on the East End in recent years, and these perils are being keenly felt on Shelter Island. The public sense of being left out of a comprehensive plan process currently underway, along with construction of massive houses by people (and their
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