Remembering Bev, Jack and the Harbor Inn A warm and welcoming harbor, no matter the weather. (Credit: Courtesy photo)
With the news of Beverly Cahill passing away recently, many Islanders thought of the good times at the Harbor Inn, a tavern run by Bev and her husband Jack for 20 years, between 1965 and 1985. Many have said that the Harbor Inn was the best tavern in the history of the Island, and that the Cahills made it special. In 2015 we published this remembrance of the Harbor Inn in the words of the people who went there, a history of the camaraderie, the laughs and the connection to community it created. This is a time when we could all use a little Harbor Inn in our lives.
This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. (Credit: Courtesy illustration)
With COVID-19 cases flaring and word that the state is running out of vaccines, Shelter Islanders who have been anxious to get their first inoculations have been pressuring local officials.
Supervisor Gerry Siller said he and his team Police Chief Jim Read and Deputy Supervisor Amber Brach-Williams haven’t been idle in pressuring for a share of the supply as it’s being received by the state. He has joined with Assemblyman Fred Thiele Jr. (I-Sag Harbor) and other East End public officials to make local needs known.
Islanders on Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have A Dream’ speech Demonstrators, silent in front of Police Department headquarters during the Black Lives Matter protest rally in June. (Credit: Ambrose Clancy)
Last August a group of Islanders came together to discuss Martin Luther King’s immortal speech. Below is a report on that gathering.
On the 57th anniversary of one of the most stirring and influential speeches in history, five Islanders gathered to discuss what the words meant then, and what meaning they have now.
Their conversation considered what inspired the historic address, and how it can be applied to individuals and communities in light of a time of mass protests for racial equality.
(Credit: Steve Wick)
Shelter Island’s Emergency Medical Services personnel began receiving COVID-19 vaccinations Wednesday at Northwell Health in Riverhead, Police Chief Jim Read announced at Wednesday afternoon’s final Town Board meeting of the year. It’s not yet clear whether the vaccine will be administered on the Island.
All health care workers are in the first tier of those eligible for the vaccines in line with protocols set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There are communities around the country breaking the CDC regulations in order to provide first doses to elderly patients with compromised immunity because of other health conditions, according to a report carried by at least two news networks. But Shelter Islanders, following Stony Brook Southampton Hospital regulations, are sticking to the CDC protocols.
Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor
To the Editor:
The Recycling Center is a public space, and as such should not be dominated by any partisan message.
To have a truck centrally parked all day long flying a large partisan flag violates this principle. The same principle applies to Town Hall, Justice Court, the Post Offices and the Police Department.
The neutrality of public spaces is extremely important in a democracy. This issue needs to be addressed by the community.
MARTIN I. AINBINDER, Shelter Island
Failure to contact
To the Editor:
An article in the Reporter (“Siller: Yard sales on ‘back burner,’” Dec. 3), refers to my wife, Kathleen Minder and me, Stephen Gessner.