09.01.2025 Columns Column: Working for a living Labor Day, America’s end-of-summer celebration, lost its original meaning long ago. The first Monday in September was earmarked Labor Day as an election year appeasement by President Grover Cleveland....
07.03.2025 Featured Story An American Quiz Tomorrow, July 4, Americans celebrate themselves on the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Right? Wrong. Most signers put their “John Hancocks” on the document on...
06.14.2025 Editorials It’s a grand old flag: Old Glory through the centuries Other nations, for the most part, reserve the flying of their national colors for government buildings and ceremonial events marking special dates in their histories. They revere their flags,...
06.07.2025 Featured Story Column: A matter of time I’m one of those people who is never on time. No, not late. I’m always early. Reaching my destination, I have to walk around blocks, drive in circles, drink...
01.18.2025 Community Guest Column: How to make resolutions stick How’s that New Year’s diet going? What? You had Danish and bacon for breakfast, chicken nuggets and fries for lunch and plan on beers and pizza-with-extra-cheese with the gang...
01.10.2025 News A life working on the water: Fisherman, businessman serves Shelter Island and North Fork Just back from a two-day fishing trip that took him 100 miles south of Montauk, Jermaine Owens was talking about tilefish. The tile is a big-headed bruiser who lives...
07.02.2024 News Wave that flag: Old Glory through the centuries The United States is probably the most flag-obsessed nation in the world, and July 4th is arguably the most popular day to fly it. Other nations, for the most...
06.17.2024 Community Piano man: Recycling center employee plays himself out on found instrument It was a typical trip on Friday to the Recycling Center for Robert Ruben, a physician and author who lives half the year on the Island and half in...
06.10.2024 Outdoors Tick disease on the rise across the region Summer is the time to get out and enjoy the North Fork’s natural beauty, in a garden, on a lawn, on a hike, or just on a stroll along...
03.10.2023 Columns Column: Changes to baseball? Do not get me started We are living in truly dark times. Our institutions and traditions, handed down in America through the generations, are now under assault and seem unsteady, not able to withstand...
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