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...
06.18.2023 Community Guest Column: Juneteenth’s path to a national holiday It’s said that a “journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” That’s certainly true of Opal Lee, a retired school teacher and mother of four from...
04.14.2023 Editorials Editorial: Some ground rules for letters and guest columns Every once in a while we want to remind our readers that we welcome your guest columns and letters to the editor. Even as we say we welcome them,...
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,...
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....
07.18.2021 Columns Guest Spot: As first loves go, this one was intense and heartbreaking Do you remember the day you fell in love for the first time? I do, like it was yesterday. It was a beautiful October day and for me it...
07.05.2021 Columns Guest Spot: We deserve an apology for these lies It is our community’s misfortune to be served by a newspaper that would publish Hugh Prestwood’s letter (“Guest Spot got it all wrong,” June 17). Witness how rag sheet...
07.01.2021 Columns Guest Spot: It is our history that troubles so many You are looking at a photograph of me and my cousin Shannon Lanier. It is a photograph that illustrates why the 1619 Project is such a white supremacist’s nightmare,...