Shelter Island Police Department officers on Oak Tree Lane in Silver Beach the afternoon of March 19, 2018. (Credit:STRINGER NEWS PHOTO)
At the beginning of the year, the Reporter is looking back on some significant stories we brought to our readers in 2020. He thought he was prepared for the worst. But what Father Charles McCarron discovered, checking on an elderly friend and colleague one midday two years ago, was a horrific and heartbreaking crime, something he said he could never have prepared for.
A crime that is still unsolved
“It’s been kind of like a PTSD event for me,” Father McCarron, the pastor of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, said last week.
Seventh annual Menorah lighting in Center Rabbi Berel Lerman at the annual Menorah lighting ceremony in the Center on Sunday evening. Rabbi Lerman’s children Moshe, 7, Chana, 3, and Menucha, 5 attended, along with Father Peter DeSanctis, seen at right. (Credit: Eleanor P. Labrozzi photo)
The seventh annual Shelter Island lighting of the Menorah took place Sunday, next to the Christmas tree on the front lawn of Police Department headquarters.
Rabbi Berel Lerman of the Center For Jewish Life–Chabad in Sag Harbor presided over the ceremony, accompanied by about 20 people.
As Rabbi Lerman said, the Menorah lighting “celebrates the victory of light over darkness and good versus evil.”