04.03.2021 Columns Column: Oyster growers face a new challenge For some people on the East End, speaking out against oyster farming is like opposing the adoption of rescue puppies. But at a series of public hearings before the...
09.01.2020 Education Shelter Island school board votes unanimously to retire the nickname Indians The Shelter Island School Board of Education met on Monday evening, ending six weeks of research and discussion into the question of retiring the nickname ‘Indians’ and the image...
02.07.2018 Environment DEC decides against extending the scalloping season The last time Peconic Bay scallops were this plentiful was the winter of 2015, just before six weeks of hard weather put what should have been a five-month harvest...
10.21.2017 Columns Column: An unemployed wedding planner waits Birds do it. Bees do it. If I’m lucky, my sons will do it. In the meantime, I’m an unemployed wedding planner.
05.14.2017 Columns Column: Celebrating all the mothers in your life Since 1913, when Congress officially recognized the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day, Americans have celebrated this most traditional of made-up holidays.
06.07.2015 Columns Column: When a dinner party takes a turn for the worse My husband and I rarely go to dinner parties. Most Saturday nights, I cook something, my husband does the dishes, we read a little and, if we’re feeling really...
05.02.2015 Columns Guest Column: Lessons from a year of living doglessly Last April, our beloved dachshund, Hudson, died. He was 12, which is pretty old in dog years, as they say. My husband suggested we wait a year before we...
