08.03.2014 Real Estate Real Estate: At my house, it’s man vs. worm I blamed Hurricane Sandy. So I couldn’t allow myself to be too upset. Many people lost their homes — or their lives. All I lost was an arborvitae. My...
07.19.2014 Columns Column: Remove hate speech from immigration debate It was a sunny August afternoon last year when we at the paper got word of police activity — a possible drug bust — in Mattituck. It turned out...
06.22.2014 Columns Column: The East End’s obsession with hating 7-Eleven Petitions. Picket signs. Whistles and horns. Your local Democratic party leader comparing it to Walmart, which has “destroyed America.” Petitions. Picket signs. Whistles and horns. Your local Democratic party...
06.14.2014 Columns Column: Think you have the flu? Check for a tick “Thank God my wife is such a pain in the a–.” That was how my brother Chris kicked off our phone conversation Monday, days after our mom had informed...
06.07.2014 Columns Column: The future of golf in Riverhead Town Last year was a tough one for golf courses in Riverhead Town. Three closed, including Long Island National, which was purchased in a bankruptcy sale. The other two were...
04.19.2014 Columns Column: Let’s all ‘toss the phone’ together His audience was a group of Cub Scouts. Their motto: Do your best. And the children did their best to give Riverhead highway patrol officer Dennis Cavanaugh honest answers....
02.09.2014 Columns Column: They can have their cake and eat it, too You can learn a lot from observing a group of kids singing around a birthday cake. Most are licking their chops, thinking about nothing more than shoving cake in...
12.22.2013 Columns Column: Specials are about more than Christmas Ever notice how nasty the adults are in Christmas specials? Maybe it’s been a while since you’ve curled up with a cup of hot chocolate and a stop-motion animated...