01.10.2011 Uncategorized Focus: Enjoying a Florida park and a Christmas boat parade Early one morning we took a walk at the Joan M. Durante Park, not too far from where we live. It is a community park and was started much...
12.07.2010 Uncategorized Focus Column: Counting crows and landing a ladyfish Our sons came down to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with us here in Florida. After a big turkey dinner with friends from the North Fork at the water’s edge,...
11.23.2010 Uncategorized Focus on Nature: Winter home is for the birds We were on Southwest Flight 1003 headed for Florida before the first snowflakes fell on the North Fork. We cruised above the clouds and every once in a while...
11.08.2010 Community Focus on Nature: Outside there are signs of winter everywhere you look We had been enjoying the kaleidoscope of fall’s colors when the cool 38-degree temperature this morning nudged us on to start packing. It didn’t take us long to put...
10.27.2010 Uncategorized Focus Column: Halloween means fall on the North Fork Many years ago Halloween meant something entirely different from the Halloween we know today. It was a time when ignorance and suspicion ruled. It was a period of ghosts...
09.30.2010 Community Columns An American eel’s incredible journey Peter Stoutenburgh Photo This eel captured by a great blue heron is an unusual sight. Predators of eels are normally larger fish, gulls and eagles. This photograph was taken...
09.16.2010 Community Columns A special day on Dune Road Barbara Stoutenburgh photo Tree swallows rest in a South Fork parking lot. The total number covered an area the size of a football field. We’ve been waiting for all...
09.02.2010 Community Columns Life stirs with the cooling rain It’s said that one little brown bat can catch between 500 and 1,000 flying insects in one night. We finally got a break in the weather. It was the...