11.24.2013 Columns Column: Science Center is a place that ‘matters’ I couldn’t believe 60 first-graders could stay so captivated for so long. Every kid’s eyes were glued to the center of the room, heads tilted, little mouths agape. They...
11.11.2013 Columns Column: Honoring a family hero this Veterans Day When I was a boy and my grandmother was still alive, I can recall how no one in my family was allowed to play “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”...
07.21.2013 Columns Column: Attention shoppers, get it together Of all the topics I’ve covered in this space, some serious, others not so much, I think I received the most reader responses from a 2011 column about bad...
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...
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....
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,...
03.24.2012 Columns Column: Let’s get some YMCA issues out on the table For those just catching up on the latest YMCA proposal and subsequent debate, here’s a crash course: the Peconic YMCA group is trying to purchase nine acres across from...
09.15.2011 Columns Column: How sports can help us heal New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan took some heat last week for saying he so badly wanted to win Sunday night’s game against the Cowboys because of the...