Peter Waldner News Today

The Reporter honored by New York Press Association Credit: Don Bindler Your hometown paper brought home some prestigious awards for editorial excellence from the New York Press Association’s (NYPA) spring convention, held April 7 to 9 in Saratoga Springs. The association’s “Better Newspaper Contest” fielded 2,440 entries from 151 newspapers across the state, and were judged by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association. Peter Waldner, the Rep...

Brett Surerus is the Reporter’s Person of the Year Credit: Peter Waldner) Selecting a single Person of the Year for 2021 has been particularly challenging because so many Islanders reached beyond their own households to help others. We salute all those who stepped up, day after day, and continue to do so, as we move toward an end to the pandemic in 2021 and a return to some semblance of normal life. But one very unassuming person stood out, because of eff...