01.17.2015 Columns Gustavson Column: So this is how you treat a scenic byway? This is an open letter to the person responsible for throwing empty Budweiser can after empty Budweiser can on the side of the otherwise pristine Narrow River Road in...
12.08.2014 Sports Gustavson Column: Once a Leopard, always a Leopard In another day and age, George Hossenlopp and I might’ve been college football teammates. Instead, in this day and age, we ended up neighbors. We’ve lived around the corner...
11.09.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Here’s hoping 70 is the new 69 When and how did this happen? When did we so-called baby boomers become Older Americans, coming up fast on age 70? Those are questions some male friends of a...
10.19.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Why my love of the sport faded Having just returned from our 50th high school reunion, whence I was reunited with teammates from our undefeated, state championship football team, I am once again ruminating on the...
09.20.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Is East Marion becoming East Brooklyn? Yes, it’s true, I am a full-fledged curmudgeon. (Merriam-Webster definition: “A person [especially an old man] who is easily annoyed or angered and who often complains.”) Let’s see: A...
07.28.2014 Columns Gustavson column: Love and hate for my old house The Oysterponds Historical Society tells us it was built around 1830. And the Town of Southold tells us it is a legitimate historic landmark. Which means 595 King St.,...
06.14.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Thoughts on one of Southold’s best teachers Greenport author Teresa Taylor and her new novel, “Family Matters,” were duly profiled in last week’s Suffolk Times, and I have little to add on that subject, save for...
04.26.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Where there’s a Will there (isn’t) a way I recently had occasion to attend a lecture by noted conservative newspaper columnist/pundit/Sunday talk show panelist/baseball nut George Will. It was an entertaining 60 minutes but I came away...
04.14.2014 Columns Gustavson Column: Pleased to be back on the North Fork Absence, they say, makes the heart grow fonder. And so it was as the former Joan Giger Walker and I returned to the North Fork this week after an...
03.16.2014 Columns Gustavson: Still reporting on what matters to us The three-sentence-long news alert from The Suffolk Times jumped off the screen of my computer when I fired it up first thing Tuesday morning. The headline declared, “Town Board...