02.15.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: My new best friend, Nike Fuel Band My new best friend goes everywhere I go. He’s the first to greet me in the morning, the last to say good night. The only place he doesn’t follow...
01.25.2014 Columns Column: An appreciation of one Otis Grey Pike The bow tie. That’s the first thing I noticed about Otis Pike: the bow tie.
01.19.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: A delightful month spent at the movies With the arrival of January comes my annual immersion in a veritable sea of movies. Anything to get me through the next few months, when the sun will shine...
11.22.2013 Columns Column: The days and years after JFK’s death I still can remember, as if it were yesterday, when our social studies teacher Mr. Bloom walked into the classroom and told us that President Kennedy had been shot...
08.31.2013 Columns Column: Anyone for tennis? Not anymore With the U.S. Open getting underway this week at Flushing Meadows on the opposite end of Long Island, perhaps this is an inopportune time to ask if tennis is,...
08.18.2013 Columns Gustavson Column: Why I break bad on Sundays Yes, I know this column is supposed to be local in its focus. And this week’s submission will be, too, insofar as our television set is located in Orient,...
08.03.2013 Sports Women’s champ crowned at Bob Wall tourney Rain interrupted play in the Bob Wall Memorial Tennis Tournament Saturday morning at Tasker Park in Peconic. Only two of the four scheduled matches were completed before tournament director...
07.20.2013 Columns Column: Mr. Bishop, gift, don’t sell, Plum Island In a strong showing of bipartisanship and environmental activism, a coalition of pols and tree huggers gathered on a rocky beach overlooking Plum Island in sweltering heat Tuesday morning...