03.26.2017 Columns Guest Spot: Share your compassion with everyone About five years ago, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. For two years I received all the standard advised treatments at Stony Brook University Hospital, but I...
02.25.2017 Columns Guest Column: The positive impact of the North Fork’s wine industry The first day in 1973 that my then-husband, Alex, and I arrived on the farm we’d bought in Cutchogue, on Long Island’s North Fork, to plant the region’s first...
12.28.2016 Columns Guest Spot: Big win on farmland for voters, taxpayers Christmas came early for Suffolk County voters in the form of a New York State Supreme Court decision on preserving farmland.
12.21.2016 Columns Guest Spot: Apartment plans not right approach Close your eyes. Go ahead, no one’s watching. With your eyes shut, when I ask you to imagine what downtown Riverhead should be, what do you picture? Is it...
12.03.2016 Columns Guest Column: Reflecting on President Obama’s tenure It was election night in 2008 and I was in a packed hotel ballroom in downtown Cleveland surrounded by campaign volunteers for Barack Obama who’d gathered before a giant...
10.26.2016 Columns Guest Spot: Supervisor terms should remain two years Every few years, the politicians in Town Hall ask us for permission to extend the length of a supervisor’s term from two years to four. Let me give you...
10.23.2016 Columns Guest Spot: On Election Day, vote yes on CPF extension This Election Day, voters on the North Fork can take a huge step to improve water quality and preserve open space and farmland. Since 1999, the Community Preservation Fund...
10.08.2016 Columns Guest Spot: A day to celebrate the ‘peace and stability’ On Sept. 24 I had the honor of attending a program at Friendship Baptist Church in Flanders, honoring some of its octogenarian church members. These are members who are...