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 Columns 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 Columns 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 Columns 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...
11.03.2022 Columns Sports Desk: After 30 years, it’s time to say goodbye Driving along a winding highway through the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York one memorable day in March of 1992, it occurred to me that the path of life...
10.07.2022 Columns Guest Spot: We can’t afford to lose our democracy There is no question that many hard-working Americans are experiencing significant economic pain in their lives. The cost of fuel, food and rent is causing immense financial stress. Millions...
09.18.2022 Columns Guest Column: A climate change briefing for students As a new school year starts, let’s update our understanding of climate change. Here on our idyllic North Fork, we suffer from a malaise that I’ll call “back porch,...
09.09.2022 Columns Column: Exhibit shines a light on labor camp More than any other artists, photographers rely on light to create their images. They are a team. People and landscapes are their canvas; light is the magic that brings...
07.04.2022 Columns Guest Spot: On July 4, let us celebrate freedom We are indeed so blessed to live in America. I’m saddened to watch a negative theme permeate our culture that suggests America is an evil country founded on hypocrisy....
05.29.2022 Columns Column: Dignity, respect on hallowed ground at Calverton National Cemetery Rich Hilts enlisted in the U.S. Army right after graduating from high school in upstate Rome. His first day of basic training was Sept. 11, 2001. “We didn’t believe...
05.13.2022 Columns Column: 30 years later, it’s still a labor of love And there it is, 30 years in the books (or perhaps I should say in the papers). Thirty years is a long time, and yet it flew by in...
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