Experts: opioid crisis was avoidable
PETER BOODY PHOTO Panelists (from left) Adm. Sandy Winnefeld, Dr. Joseph Garbely and Patrick Radden at the Hamptons Institute forum on opioid addiction Aug. 20. Journalist Elizabeth Vargas was the...
View ArticleRemembering Jack Monaghan: Teacher, mentor and friend
REPORTER FILE PHOTOJack Monaghan Jack Monaghan, one of the most beloved Islanders in recent memory, passed away on September 6, 2017. He was 82 years old. Here’s a profile by Peter Boody of Jack the...
View ArticleA lot of history in one man who calls Shelter Island home
PETER BOODY PHOTO |Carole and Richard Baron, World War II POW and former publisher of Dial Press during the Civil Rights era, outside the beachfront home where they host children, step-children,...
View ArticleProfile: A Southerner plants roots on Shelter Island
PETER BOODY PHOTO |Kimberlea Rea on her back deck at Bass Creek. You know there’s a good story behind an attorney who keeps prints of Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on the wall behind her...
View ArticleProfile: An actor with Island roots
COURTESY PHOTO | Grown-up Shelter Island summer kid Paul Ben-Victor as Moe Howard from the 2000 made-for-TV biopic, ‘The Three Stooges,’ which will be screened at the library at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June...
View ArticleFormer Islander helps produce film on crusader for justice
JOE STILLMAN PHOTO |Former Shelter Islander Deborah Ziegler, well known here for her work with former Presbyterian Church Pastor Bill Grimbol, as well as for her paintings and photographs, at her...
View ArticleIsland profile: A life that celebrates kindness
SCOTT ENSTINE PHOTOLisa Krekeler at home with her new children’s book, “Emily and the Kindness Bracelet,” which ties in with her jewelry-making business. A 29-year-old former upstater who lives with...
View ArticleIsland profile: Life began again in mid-life
PETER BOODY PHOTO | Bill and Mary Boeklen at ‘The Resort,’ as their cozy home — with its kayaks, XBox, fishing gear, pool and other fun things — is known among the kids in their extended family. South...
View ArticleA lot of history in one man who calls Shelter Island home
PETER BOODY PHOTO |Carole and Richard Baron, World War II POW and former publisher of Dial Press during the Civil Rights era, outside the beachfront home where they host children, step-children,...
View ArticleProfile: A Southerner plants roots on Shelter Island
PETER BOODY PHOTO |Kimberlea Rea on her back deck at Bass Creek. You know there’s a good story behind an attorney who keeps prints of Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on the wall behind her...
View ArticleProfile: An actor with Island roots
COURTESY PHOTO | Grown-up Shelter Island summer kid Paul Ben-Victor as Moe Howard from the 2000 made-for-TV biopic, ‘The Three Stooges,’ which will be screened at the library at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, June...
View ArticleFormer Islander helps produce film on crusader for justice
JOE STILLMAN PHOTO |Former Shelter Islander Deborah Ziegler, well known here for her work with former Presbyterian Church Pastor Bill Grimbol, as well as for her paintings and photographs, at her...
View ArticleIsland profile: A life that celebrates kindness
SCOTT ENSTINE PHOTOLisa Krekeler at home with her new children’s book, “Emily and the Kindness Bracelet,” which ties in with her jewelry-making business. A 29-year-old former upstater who lives with...
View ArticleIsland profile: Life began again in mid-life
PETER BOODY PHOTO | Bill and Mary Boeklen at ‘The Resort,’ as their cozy home — with its kayaks, XBox, fishing gear, pool and other fun things — is known among the kids in their extended family. South...
View ArticleIsland Profile: Artist, psychologist Susan Schrott
PETER BOODY PHOTO |Susan Schrott shows art journals like those she’ll teach workshop participants to make at the Shelter Island Library. “It’s all come together,” said Susan Schrott, daughter of...
View ArticleIsland profile: Mary Kanarvogel, the school’s go-to lady
PETER BOODY PHOTO |Nurse Mary Kanarvogel at the door of her office in the school. Just about everybody who lives, works or has raised a family on Shelter Island knows Nurse Mary Kanarvogel. She’s been...
View ArticleIsland profile: Ferryman who has gigged from Alaska to LA
PETER BOODY PHOTO |Dennis Raffelock at home with a bass he’s been playing since his Westbury High School days in the early 1960s. “This story give me the chills,” Shelter Island’s resident bass player,...
View ArticleIsland profile: Patricia Quigley
PETER BOODY PHOTO |Patricia Quigley at home in front of original artwork by her younger son, Bazzy “I do these things because somebody has to do them,” former Town Justice Patricia Quigley said of her...
View ArticleIsland profile: Neal Raymond
PETER BOODY PHOTO |Zoning Board member Neal Raymond, a former deputy county sheriff (in uniform in the photo on the wall behind him) at home with a few of his favorite things. Take Neal Raymond off...
View ArticleIsland profile: Denise DiPaolo, fresh air for the Library
PETER BOODY PHOTO |Shelter Island Library Director Denise DiPaolo at her ‘empty nest’ in Sag Harbor, where she raised her three children. Denise DiPaolo has so much positive energy a stranger might...
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