11.09.2022 News For scallop lovers, the season begins poorly When the bay scallop season opened in New York State waters Monday, there were few surprises. Keith Reda, general manager at Braun Seafood Company in Cutchogue, summed it up:...
04.08.2022 Columns Column: Making our way back to spring training Within hours of the news that the baseball lockout was over, my husband and I reserved two seats on an airplane bound for Tampa, determined to see if we...
11.25.2021 Columns Column: A year after pandemic-altered Thanksgiving, traditions new and old return When Thanksgiving plans came up for discussion at the weekly family video meeting, my mother asked if we could celebrate this year like we did not last year. At...
09.12.2021 Featured Story After disappointing scallop seasons in 2019, ’20, outlook remains bleak ahead of November harvest In June, Matt Ketcham was harvesting oysters at his underwater farm in Southold Bay, when he beheld the welcome sight of adult bay scallops in his oyster cages. (He...
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.
