06.15.2020 Columns Guest Spot: After 50 years, where are my former students now? In 1970, I was a newly minted third-grade teacher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. My students were Black and Latinx, living in crowded apartments, relying on school meals to hold back...
02.15.2020 Columns Guest Spot: A fire commissioner reflects on his time I went into the job knowing how much I had to teach them. I came out of it realizing how much I had learned. There was a vacancy on...
08.25.2019 Columns Guest Spot: Proposed changes for accessory apartments may worsen problem The Southold Town Board has proposed an amendment to the zoning code that governs accessory apartments. We do need a change to the existing rules because they do not...
07.05.2019 Columns Guest Column: We must act now to protect our water The recent closing of Veterans Memorial Park beach due to high concentrations of dangerous bacteria should alert all residents of Southold to the precarious state of our water resources.
05.26.2019 Columns Equal Time: McMansions should not be our future We are not the Hamptons. Some call us the “Un-Hamptons.” We like it like that. This is not “The Scene.” It is still farm country. And small businesses. And...
