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01.14.2021 Columns

Column: A selfless young man gone far too soon

Mark Rolle couldn’t help but laugh when a somber moment took an unexpected turn. He stood in front of mourners gathered inside Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church...

01.10.2021 Columns

Column: A group of winners unlike any other

The first editions of our newspapers each year are always among my favorites. They may be stressful to finish at times, coming off the holiday, but the reward is...

12.20.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: Congressman Zeldin’s actions are an assault on our Constitution

Last week Congressman Lee Zeldin joined almost two-thirds of the House Republicans to sign on to an amicus (friend of the Court) brief in support of the recently dismissed...

12.05.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: Family Health and Wellness of Cornell Cooperative Extension needs your help

The Family Health and Wellness educators received devastating news recently. The 2021 Suffolk County budget reduced FHW funding to 0%, thereby eliminating funding for the entire department. For decades...

10.31.2020 Columns

Guest Column: We can’t vote yet, so please don’t let your chance slip by

An urgent request from the sixth- and seventh-graders of the Peconic Community School: We need you to vote. We can’t, but you CAN! Your vote can change our country....

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10.09.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: Every patriot should be anti-fascist

The sitting president has made it clear that he will not commit to a peaceful transfer of power should the voters deny him a second term. New reporting from...

10.04.2020 Columns

Guest Column: A breakdown of the social order

My father was a lifelong Republican and my mother a lifelong Democrat. Yet in their 50-plus-year marriage, there was never a discussion, heated or otherwise, on candidates or political...

09.25.2020 Columns

Guest Column: When it comes to voting, the devil is in the details

By now, many of us feel like the prisoner in Frank R. Stockton’s 1882 tale, “The Lady or the Tiger?” It’s about an innocent hostage, barbarically tossed into the...

09.11.2020 Columns

Column: Our family’s little heart warrior

I’ll always cherish the moment I read my daughter her first book. I held her in my arms, careful not to disturb the array of wires connected to her...

08.19.2020 Columns

Column: With failed budget, students do pay the price

I was going into my sixth-grade year the first time my school’s budget failed. It was rejected the following spring as well, meaning we ran on an austerity spending...

08.15.2020 Columns

Column: Working with words requires write stuff

The longer you do it, the better you get — and no matter how old you are, you can always get better. Never will you hit a ceiling where...

07.19.2020 Columns

Column: In 1764, Native Americans asked for help that never came

In 1764 something happened in Southold that received almost no attention in the narrative put forward by early town historians. Those historians wanted to celebrate the “founding families,” to...

07.10.2020 Columns

Guest Column: The excuses don’t add up on bounties

It has been reported that Russia paid bounties to the Taliban for the killing of American and coalition servicemen and women. Some have argued that the intelligence is not...

07.05.2020 Columns

Column: The names that represent a story we can’t tell

Across the country and across Long Island, America’s past is being examined, thought about in a very different light, criticized and, in some cases, kicked to the curb. Symbols...

06.28.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: For 111 days, we watched and admired

I couldn’t hold back the tears last Friday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave his 111th — and final — daily press briefing during the COVID-19 crisis. He promised that...

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