11.19.2011 Community Column: Serving up some tasty road names About this time last year I had an idea. That happens occasionally. Anyway, my idea was this: Lots of roads on the North Fork have winter/Christmas names and I...
10.07.2011 News Forward Living: This ‘trash’ has value beyond measure For everything there is a season. And on the North Fork, the yard sale season is a long one. From early spring until a few weeks from now, when...
09.20.2011 Community Forward Living: Sources that feed your reading habit It’s not a happy ending. The last page reveals Borders bookstores nationwide are closing. That, of course, includes the Riverhead store, where, over the years, thousands of North Forkers...
09.02.2011 News Lombardi Column: For these folks, lunch is in the bag “You forgot your lunch.” All over the North Fork you’ll hear parents call this after their kids — kids who leave their brown-bag lunches on the kitchen table as...
08.21.2011 News Lombardi Column: This sticker comes with multiple uses Anything goes on the North Fork. You just have to get the right permit. Building permits, parking permits, get-rid-of-your-garbage permits — we’ve got ’em all. And, so help me,...
06.20.2011 News Lombardi Column: 3 notable guests make surprise visit It’s the strangest thing. My Cutchogue neighbor had a little pre-Fourth of July picnic last weekend and three uninvited guests appeared. Now this is highly unusual for the North...
06.07.2011 News Lombardi Column: She’s pinning her hopes on a clothesline It’s that time of year. North Fork women, and even some guys, seem to enjoy hanging out. But before you jump to a faulty conclusion — like we’re just...
05.24.2011 News Lombardi Column: More birthdays are goal of Relay for Life Happy birthday! You’ve just turned 5 and you’re thinking about starting school — getting on that big yellow bus with your 8-year-old brother. All of a sudden it’s your...
05.09.2011 News Column: This department is going to waste Unfair and unkind. That’s what I think. Some folks, even a few North Forkers, are always saying mean things about the government — whether it’s in Washington, D.C., or...
04.26.2011 News Lombardi Column: Tree house makes a heavenly haven I’ve lived in them all and called all of them home — a Cape Cod, a colonial, a split level and now a ranch. But never, ever, a tree...