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...
01.10.2025 Columns Guest Spot: How to be happier in 2025 We all like to be happy, right? But life can be hard. Or, as my grandfather wisely pointed out, “Life wasn’t meant to be easy. It was meant to...
10.05.2024 Opinion Guest Spot: Support your fellow voters If you want to play a direct role in ensuring that all eligible Suffolk County residents are able to vote in the upcoming election — and that the election...
04.19.2024 Columns Column: Eleanor Lingo’s life is a history lesson In every way, Eleanor Lingo has been a pioneer in Southold Town and across the region. At nearly every stage of her life she broke one color line after...
01.29.2024 Opinion Guest column: Why we can expect higher tides to come Jack Gibbons is a retired high-school teacher, adjunct professor of education at Long Island University and author of ‘Human-caused Global Warming and Climate Change: Understanding the Science.’ He lives...
03.10.2023 Columns Column: Changes to baseball? Do not get me started We are living in truly dark times. Our institutions and traditions, handed down in America through the generations, are now under assault and seem unsteady, not able to withstand...
02.14.2023 Columns Column: On Valentine’s Day, love’s labor’s won Billie Holiday, in one of her more poignant lyrics, wrote that “love will make you drink and gamble, make you stay out all night long.” Which leads me to...
12.02.2022 Columns Suffolk Closeup: New push for Long Island nuclear plants Suffolk County is nuclear-free. None of the seven to 11 nuclear power plants proposed for Suffolk became a reality after decades of intense grassroots and governmental opposition. A key...
11.16.2022 Featured Story Column: Research on local slave history bears fruit Two-and-a-half years ago, three people who are serious about local history got together to tackle a subject few before them had considered important: the history of slavery on the...
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