02.03.2013 Columns Gustavson Column: Exploring a gun buyback program So I have this old, rusty, single-shot, 20-gauge shotgun sitting in the corner of our bedroom, awaiting its fate. What to do with it? Leave it where it lies,...
01.20.2013 Columns Gustavson Column: Reluctantly, still a football fan The former Joan Giger Walker and I have not been seeing too much of each other recently. She’s been in one room reading books and doing crossword puzzles; I’ve...
12.22.2012 Columns Column: Screw 2nd amendment, sanity time “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” — Second...
11.15.2012 Columns Column: No more sweeping it all under the rug I began to write this column a month ago but then some newsmakers named Sandy and Barack got in the way. It (the column) was prompted by news reports...
09.23.2012 Columns Gustavson Column: The night I made a truly bad choice A confession: I recently drove a car when I shouldn’t have. It came at the end of a long and beautiful day of showing off the North Fork to...
08.24.2012 Columns Gustavson Column: Protecting the Scrabble-cheating kid Back in June, I wrote a column about local businesses, such as North Fork Potato Chips, that have established a national reach. Among the businesses I neglected to mention...
07.31.2012 Columns Column: We need to get behind live music on this fork At the risk of stirring up some of those old “Troy has South Fork envy” complaints that arose many years ago when I compared downtown Greenport unfavorably to downtown...
07.12.2012 Opinion Column: 43 years and counting for news couple Due to circumstances well within our control, this (today!) may be the first of our 43 wedding anniversaries that the former Joan Giger Walker and I have not been...