(Reporter file photo)
The Water Quality Improvement Advisory Board (WQI) plans to reach out to other Island committees to join in an appeal to the Town Board to ban pesticides.
Members of other committees the Water Advisory Committee, the Conservation Advisory Council, the Waterways Management Advisory Council and the Green Options Committee have all expressed concerns about the effect of fertilizers and pesticides they consider dangerous to the environment and to people.
The issue was discussed at the May 6 WQI meeting. Co-chairman James Eklund pointed to the “fragile nature of potable water” and the condition of surrounding waters as factors in recommending action.
Share
“If anyone was the perfect publisher for the 1960s, it was Richard Baron. He was totally fearless, and he backed us in every crazy thing we would do,” E.L. Doctorow, former Editor-in-Chief, The Dial Press.
Richard Warren Baron, the renowned sixties owner and publisher of The Dial Press, where he presided over works by James Baldwin and Norman Mailer, and hired E.L. Doctorow as Editor-in-Chief, died on Sunday, May 9 of natural causes at his home in New York City. He was 98.
His death was announced by Carole Baron, his wife of 45 years, an editor at Alfred A. Knopf.
A friendly meeting in a grove of trees; Shelter Island Quakers gathering every Sunday The gathering place every Sunday for the Shelter Island Friends Meeting. (Credit: Jim Pugh)
The Shelter Island Friends Meeting is held every Sunday, as it has been all winter, at 10:30 a.m. at the Quaker monument on the Sylvester Manor grounds, 116 North Ferry Road.
Jim Pugh of the Meeting said the gatherings take place under the trees, in a clearing of the woods, with log benches and a pavilion if it rains. Mr. Pugh said the Friends, also called Quakers, “are not solicitous,” and their faith doesn’t believe in proselytizing, but “all are invited.”
(Credit: Courtesy photo)
Reverend Robert Griffin, pastor of Shelter Island Presbyterian Church, recently realized one of many truths that have emerged from the pandemic.
“COVID has tested our characters, but more importantly, it’s
revealed our characters,” Reverend Griffin said. “Sometimes in wonderful ways, sometimes in quite other ways. COVID has done that in our town, in our country and in the world.”
He, along with other faith leaders, is looking at an Easter and Passover markedly different from the spring of 2020, when COVID locked down in-person services for most of the significant holy days of the Christian and Jewish traditions.
A Christmas angel graces Midway Road.
Sculptor Hap Bowditch’s work brings light to a corner of the Island and to all who pass by. (Credit: Eleanor P. Labrozzi)
This time of year, many of us try to make donations to support nonprofit organizations and that support is needed this year more than ever. 2020 has been what many nonprofit leaders call “a perfect storm,” when all the worst factors come together to their detriment.
The COVID-19 pandemic closed down or severely curtailed many local restaurants, businesses and services, meaning residents who would gladly work saw their income drop sharply.
The need for school to close meant a lot of parents couldn’t leave their children home and go to work.