The Shelter Island Gazette welcomes Julie O’Neill-Bliss! She joins our growing team as lifestyles and marketing director.
This is a new position here at the Island’s only locally owned and operated, independent online news organization. We directly serve our community with free access to information about what’s happening here on Shelter Island.
Our goal: provide a homegrown source of quality journalism that’s focused solely on this community.
Julie will support this mission by creating original and engaging content for our website, leading our marketing efforts, and managing our weekly newsletter, Life Between the Ferries.
About Julie O’Neill-Bliss
O’Neill-Bliss is a business and marketing professional with over 15 years of experience in start-up and historic companies. Most recently, she was director of sales and marketing for the Shelter Island 10K, and has served as marketing consultant for local businesses.
A native of Rochester, NY, she first came to Shelter Island in the 1990s as a weekend warrior, moving here for good in 2000. She married Islander Sebastian Bliss and with him was co-owner of Planet Bliss, a former Island restaurant. They have two children, Phoenix and Tola.
The Gazette team
Already onboard here at the Gazette is columnist Joanne Sherman, an award-winning writer who every other week posts musings on life in retirement in “Off the Cuff.” And, we welcome back Ebeth Lones, a freelance writer (now fully recovered from a broken leg), who’ll be contributing features about life on the Island.
With this additional support, I’ll be spending more time covering Island news, reporting on issues that matter most to Islanders. And my husband, Eddie, isn’t off the hook. As co-publisher, he’ll help me keep our business on track, and contribute stories, too.
Join us!
We invite you to join our growing readership. Our website, free to read, is updated daily. The Gazette Calendar has a comprehensive listing of events on the Island. And Life Between the Ferries provides newsletter subscribers with a detailed weekly look at what’s coming up.
You can also follow us on Facebook and Instagram.
Thanks to to the support of our local advertisers, all of our online publications are free to read.
Drop by the Shelter Island Gazette
If you have questions or a tip for a story, drop by the Shelter Island Gazette office. We’re at 13 Grand Avenue opposite the Heights post office. The office is open Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Our office phone number is 631-749-9222.
You can reach me at 631-740-4711 or editor@shelterislandgazette.com.
You can contact Julie O’Neill-Bliss at j.oneill-bliss@shelterislandgazette.com.
