Traditional Irish Soda Bread consists of flour, salt, baking soda and buttermilk. That’s it. The baking soda needs the acid of the buttermilk. But, over the years, baking powder replaced baking soda ...

Finally, winter has receded and the “Snow-Drops” (Galanthus) are looking beautiful popping up through frost-free ground. The ...

Shelter Island resident Amy McGorry, who’s been fighting two chronic liver diseases through most of her life, is now in dire need of a living liver donor, type O+. Such donors donate a portion of ...

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 In court, the charges against them may be reduced or withdrawn or the defendants may be found not guilty ...

Following two years of meetings with the Town Board, the Zoning Board of Appeals and the Planning Board, residents will ...

This week, the Police Department investigated a fraud complaint involving a caller who spoofed the Shelter Island Police Department’s general phone number (631-749-0600) in an attempt to make the call ...

Almost two weeks ago, writing in my other journal, I wrote the date on the top line with celebratory hearts, and flowers all ...

I’m scared I could lose everything,” Bayman Tom Field told the Town Board at Tuesday’s work session. He has spent thousands purchasing a new boat that could be ruined by gear left by oyster farmers ...

Edward E. Barr of Shelter Island, and Naples, Fla., died on February 13, 2026, at 89. He took his last ride on his beloved North Ferry at the end of October. His heart remained always on Shelter ...

Corned beef, it should be noted, is not the Irish national dish, much to the surprise of many Americans. Rather, it’s part of Irish-American culture, originating in the late 19th century when the ...

Forever chemicals” known as PFAS — cancer-causing pollutants already found in Long Island groundwater — have been detected in vegetables purchased from farm stands across the North and South forks, ...

Commuters on the North and South forks may get a reprieve — by water. Suffolk County will study the possibility of a Peconic ...