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Esther Simovich was up late Thursday night into early Friday morning. “I was binge watching ‘The Rookie,’” the 65-year-old Islander said as she waited in the hallway outside the school gym at about 9:15 a.m. to be the first Islander vaccinated in Shelter Island’s COVID-19 inoculation site. A long row of folding chairs stretched down the hallway as others waited their turn. Staying up late before her appointment wasn’t nerves, she said, but she would admit to eagerly looking forward to being vaccinated. “It’s a relief. I have a wedding to go to in May,” she said. “I’ve go...

Shelter Island Town Hall (Credit: Tara Smith) Supervisor Gerry Siller got a call Tuesday from Dr. Josh Potter of the Medical Center that a limited number of doses of COVID-19 vaccine were to be made available at Greenport’s Peconic Landing this week. Dr. Potter also called Senior Services Director Laurie Fanelli to let her know that a list being compiled of those Island seniors unable to travel to get inoculated might be able to get appointments. But if an appointment hasn’t been made, it’s too late, Mr. Siller said. Nonetheless, any senior not already on the Sen...

Shelter Island Police Department (Credit: Tara Smith) The Police Reform Committee members spent Thursday morning reviewing questions to include in an online survey likely to be made public by the end of February. The committee was set up in response to a state mandate for all departments within New York to determine ways to improve policing. Committee member Don D’Amato, who has been researching platforms to offer a survey to the public, said Survey Monkey is the best platform for this particular effort. The survey shouldn’t be confused with complaint forms filed by...

Police Reform Committee starts its work Police Chief Jim Read (Credit: Reporter file photo) Five newly minted members of the Police Reform Committee will be exploring ways in which Shelter Island Police can improve what most acknowledge is already an effective department functioning well with the community. Police Chief Jim Read admitted he was initially not pleased when Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered all communities to set up such committees to determine ways to improve policing. But on reflection, he had to admit that even a department that has had no major ...

Chief Read reports on COVID crisis Some hopeful news on the COVID-19 spike came at Tuesday’s Town Board work session. Police Chief Jim Read reported that after a long period of climbing case numbers throughout the town, county and state, Suffolk County announced a slight turn down in reported cases on Sunday and Monday. Nonetheless, Chief Read said the county is reporting 34 cases on the Island since the pandemic started last March. But he estimates the local cases have totaled in the low 50s since the pandemic hit. The discrepancy  between county and town numbers is because...