12.28.2025 Columns Guest Column: Endgame for English? Gather round all tribal members of the Misanthropes, Cranks, Boors, Pedants, Malcontents and Grouches. Please be seated. Is that everyone? Yes, you in the back, the Nitpickers, will you...
12.21.2025 Guest Spot Guest Column: Nancy Green The anguish of family estrangement This holiday season brings joy to many and sadness to some. But those suffering from family estrangement experience a different kind of sadness. It’s...
12.14.2025 Guest Spot Guest Spot: The tapestry of self Recently, I attended Bill Bleyer’s presentation on East End whaling, carrying his inscribed book, “Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History.” Bill autographed it with, “Everywhere the sea...
11.16.2025 Columns Guest Column: Shutdown As I’m writing, the government is shut down. Hopefully, when you read this it’ll be functioning again. Though I’m not sure how we’ll be able to tell. Oops, did...
01.18.2025 Community Guest Column: How to make resolutions stick How’s that New Year’s diet going? What? You had Danish and bacon for breakfast, chicken nuggets and fries for lunch and plan on beers and pizza-with-extra-cheese with the gang...
01.29.2024 Opinion Guest column: Why we can expect higher tides to come Jack Gibbons is a retired high-school teacher, adjunct professor of education at Long Island University and author of ‘Human-caused Global Warming and Climate Change: Understanding the Science.’ He lives...
06.18.2023 Community Guest Column: Juneteenth’s path to a national holiday It’s said that a “journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” That’s certainly true of Opal Lee, a retired school teacher and mother of four from...
04.14.2023 Editorials Editorial: Some ground rules for letters and guest columns Every once in a while we want to remind our readers that we welcome your guest columns and letters to the editor. Even as we say we welcome them,...