12.28.2025 Columns Guest Column: Endgame for English? Gather round all tribal members of the Misanthropes, Cranks, Boors, Pedants, Malcontents and Grouches. Please be seated. Is that everyone? Yes, you in the back, the Nitpickers, will you...
12.21.2025 Guest Spot Guest Column: Nancy Green The anguish of family estrangement This holiday season brings joy to many and sadness to some. But those suffering from family estrangement experience a different kind of sadness. It’s...
12.14.2025 Guest Spot Guest Spot: The tapestry of self Recently, I attended Bill Bleyer’s presentation on East End whaling, carrying his inscribed book, “Long Island and the Sea: A Maritime History.” Bill autographed it with, “Everywhere the sea...
12.07.2025 Guest Spot Guest Column: The bright side I am the poster child for “Always look on the bright side.” That song from Monty Python’s movie was the theme for my weekly commentary on WLIW radio, back...
11.19.2025 Columns Riverhead is a football town, and it’s time to reclaim that legacy Riverhead is a football town. Let’s not forget that. When I grew up in Riverhead, as a son of two Polish immigrants, football wasn’t something I was interested in...
11.16.2025 Columns Guest Column: Shutdown As I’m writing, the government is shut down. Hopefully, when you read this it’ll be functioning again. Though I’m not sure how we’ll be able to tell. Oops, did...
10.05.2025 Reporter's Notebook Reporter’s Notebook: Fishers Island, Southold’s most remote hamlet Despite being a born and raised Long Islander, I only became aware of Fishers Island’s existence this year. When I started reporting with The Suffolk Times nearly a year ago, I...
09.28.2025 Columns Column: Tales out of (Sunday) school Author’s note: Names have been changed to protect the innocent, who are now fully grown and walk among us. “This isn’t going to end well,” I was warned by...
09.16.2025 Reporter's Notebook Reporter’s Notebook: Collaboration, unity and care Southold and Riverhead towns have endured and resisted change throughout generations. A drive down almost any back road will reveal acres of farmland stitched alongside multi-million-dollar homes. To understand...
09.09.2025 Reporter's Notebook Reporter’s Notebook: Getting acclimated “Nassau is definitely better than Suffolk.” That was a mindset a lot of us kiddos had growing up on the western end of the island, at least in my...
09.07.2025 Columns Guest Column: Totally hacked I just read a time-saving, moneysaving hack: “Need a moisturizing treatment for your hair? Skip the salon and reach into your refrigerator!” Sounds simple enough, but time-saving, money-saving hacks...
09.01.2025 Columns Column: Working for a living Labor Day, America’s end-of-summer celebration, lost its original meaning long ago. The first Monday in September was earmarked Labor Day as an election year appeasement by President Grover Cleveland....
07.06.2025 Opinion Reporter’s Notebook: Jinx! You owe me a soda! It’s something most of us can recall from our childhood — muttering something coincidentally in unison with a friend over lunch or when spotting a punch buggy. My first...
06.20.2025 Reporter's Notebook Reporter’s Notebook: Dinner plans take unexpected turn “What’s for dinner?” I’ll admit, sometimes that phrase tweaks me, especially when I’m still working at 6 p.m. I do cook most nights, but we fall back on takeout...
06.02.2025 Columns Column: A matter of time I’m one of those people who is never on time. No, not late. I’m always early. Reaching my destination, I have to walk around blocks, drive in circles, drink...
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