09.28.2024 Opinion Guest Spot: At home on the North Fork On a recent Saturday morning, I went to see Don Miguel on his two-acre Southold farm. We chatted about the problems he has had with an insect that laid...
05.12.2024 Opinion Guest Spot: Worsening housing crisis impacts us all Once upon a time, Greenport was a source of inexpensive housing. Boarding houses and cottages alongside stately Victorians became available for low-wage tenants after World War II, as government...
07.14.2022 Columns Guest Column: DACA residents live in limbo in a worrisome age Donald Trump did not always despise all undocumented immigrants. In 2017 he declared, “We love the Dreamers,” young people protected from deportation by DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood...
05.02.2020 Columns Guest Column: The challenges of remote teaching during COVID-19 As a worker, are you essential, nonessential or front-line? COVID-19 has sorted us into categories we don’t usually contemplate. And what is essential work anyway? Excluding some people from...
11.17.2019 Letters Featured Letter: For DACA recipients, homes hang in the balance To the editor: On Tuesday the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on the future of the policy that has protected young people brought illegally to the U.S. as children...
04.13.2019 Columns Guest Column: Local schools adapt to changing populations Five years ago, when I was writing my book about Greenport’s immigrants, a parent asked me to translate into Spanish a notice from her child’s school. It announced an...
10.01.2017 Columns Guest Spot: Sad goodbye to Greenport’s Arcade When I first spent summers on Shelter Island, in the 1970s, a favorite rainy-day excursion was a trip to Greenport to shop at the Arcade. If we needed beach...
01.11.2016 Columns Guest Spot: Immigrants should be embraced, not excluded When I set out from Greenport last month for the National Immigrant Integration Conference in Brooklyn, I didn’t know what to expect.
09.04.2014 Letters Featured Letter: Older and low-wage workers need housing, too To the editor: It is indeed important that Southold Town take steps to promote affordable housing. Long Island is in the throes of a serious housing crisis, as a...
