04.14.2013 Columns Column: ‘Kramering’ your way into newspapers I wasn’t sure if the young people in the classroom were going to get the “Seinfeld” reference. I figured the St. John’s University journalism students I was invited to...
03.02.2013 Business Column: Which way will downtown Riverhead break? It was like watching protesters shouting and arguing with one another over a police barricade. You’re probably familiar with the images from nightly newscasts: “Equal Rights for Gays!” one...
01.31.2013 Columns Column: Demitri Hampton was the best type of person The extended family had already suffered a big blow two years ago, when grandma died. She was the rock who for so long seemed to hold everything together. But...
12.07.2012 Columns Column: Riverhead must do better by its dogs Animal lovers. Animal activists. Cat ladies. Dog zealots. Nut-jobs. Call them what you want, but the people who have been condemning the town’s animal shelter are not going anywhere....
10.06.2012 News Column: Where’s the pride in LINY? Sure, people love New York, as the slogan goes. “Greatest City in the World!” disc jockeys across the FM and AM dials proclaim daily. There’s a certain amount of...
09.14.2012 Columns Column: How to honor the memory of Heidi Behr It’s heroes week in the United States, as it is every year around the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks. TV, newspapers and Facebook abound with images and remembrances...
07.27.2012 News Column: An injured turtle’s last hope lies in Jamesport Shells shattered, jaws crushed, legs and paws mangled. Karen Testa and the volunteers at Turtle Rescue of the Hamptons, which opened in Jamesport in May, see it all. And,...
06.29.2012 Columns Column: ‘Mr. Love’ may be lying low for a while Local media outlets this week — with the help of their readers — have exposed a man we now know to be a serial storyteller who’s been creeping out...