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Island Profile: Finding friends in the Heights and between the bookshelves
CAROL GALLIGAN PHOTO | Sue Hine, outside her Shelter Island Heights home, on a sunny March day. Sue Hine, now chair of the Friends of the Shelter Island Public Library, has had a home in the Heights...
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Island profiles: Governor Hugh L. Carey
BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTO | Governor Hugh L. Carey at his Shelter Island Home in 2006. Governor Hugh Carey died on Sunday, August 7 at his Shelter Island home surrounded by his family at the age of 92....
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Island Profile: You get attached to a dog that may have saved your life
CAROL GALLIGAN PHOTO | Irene Byington, outside her home on Jaspa Road, with Cappy, dressed in his official uniform. ‘He doesn’t alert for the doorbell,’ she said, ‘but he does for my low blood sugar.’...
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Island Profile: How a worldwide adventurer wound up staying put at 399 Park
CAROL GALLIGAN PHOTO | Bill Drew at home on his deck overlooking Menantic Creek, a fine place for a catboat. Ninety-two-year-old Bill Drew, when asked if the Reporter could profile him, pointed out...
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Island Profile: Veteran paramedic crusades to make safe driving rule real
COURTESY BETTY JONES | Betty and Ben Jones in the uniforms of their Springfield, Massachusetts professional ambulance squad in the 1980s. Tall, wiry, fit and sharp, 90-year-old Ben Jones is the kind of...
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Island Profile: After career in movies, teaching yoga's her inspiration
CAROL GALLIGAN PHOTO | Cynthia Flynt in her yard on Burns Road. A lot of Islanders know Cynthia Flynt from the food cooperative at Sylvester Manor Educational Farm, where she helps organize volunteers,...
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Profile: Artist’s daughter settles in to motherhood
CAROL GALLIGAN PHOTO | Vicki Weslek, outside her “almost” new home on Manhanset Road, just a ways past the mini-golf course. Vicki Weslek is like many other young Island moms, and then, in some...
View ArticleIsland Profile: Meet and greet with a baseball-loving deer
February is a poignant time for Shelter Island’s deer herd. Hunting season is over, fawns are on the way, and pitchers and catchers have reported for spring training. If you’re a baseball lover, and a...
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