09.27.2014 Columns Parpan Column: Our op/ed section will miss Mr. Meinke The voice on the other end of the phone spoke in a deliberate manner, demanding to be heard. “My understaaaanding is that you are the person I now need...
07.14.2014 Columns Suffolk Closeup: GOP primary postmortems It was one bitter Republican primary battle between Lee Zeldin and George Demos ending last month.
07.12.2014 Columns Column: Tragic marker of time for a wine region The untimely and tragic deaths of Ann Marie and Marco Borghese have me thinking about the passage of time, particularly insofar as the North Fork’s grape-growing/wine industry is concerned....
06.27.2014 Columns Guest Spot: Surprise, surprise it’s a Town Board confused Give me a moment, I’ll tell you a funny story. Two weeks ago, Councilwoman Jodi Giglio went on WRIV radio to announce Riverhead can’t actually enforce town code at...
03.09.2014 Columns Column: How ‘P.S. I Love You’ is helping others There’s something I’d like to add to a bulletin board that’s being used to display thoughts on compassion. The board is mounted to a wall in Shoreham-Wading River High...
09.08.2013 Columns Guest Spot: Five simple ways to better support kids at home There has been a great deal of press about the Common Core curriculum, testing and what schools will and won’t be doing to improve the education system. News-Review editor...
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,...
07.06.2013 Columns Parpan Column: Best of times, worst of times in Riverhead I often tell people there’s no greater place to cover news than in Riverhead. This town has it all: diversity, a downtown in flux, agriculture, silly politics, great local...