Troy Gustavson, Author at The Suffolk Times

09.08.2019 Columns

Column: A dear friend who never, ever gave up

Joe Townsend Jr. was the third person we met when my wife, Joan, and I moved to the North Fork in 1977. That’s because he was the nephew of...

09.23.2017 Columns

Column: Fresh & Co. flap is nothing new for Orient residents

A colleague of mine at this newspaper used to refer to the North Fork’s easternmost hamlet as The People’s Republic of Orient. The implication was that residents of Orient...

01.25.2016 Columns

Gustavson Column: Main Road sports complex would be quite the win

The next time you pass the intersection of North Road and Horton Lane in Southold, take a quick gander to the northwest at the property occupied by Lucas Ford....

11.11.2015 Columns

Gustavson Column: He lasted a lifetime, but his art lives forever

We always knew Rob White had arrived at The Suffolk Times office because our mascot, an aged chocolate Lab named Maggie, would begin barking as he approached the front...

11.05.2015 Obituaries

Local illustrator, painter, cartoonist Rob White dies at 70

New Suffolk resident Rob White, a man of myriad talents — ranging from painting, to illustrating, to editorial cartooning, to landscape architecture and substance abuse counseling — died Wednesday,...

09.13.2015 Columns

Gustavson Column: Life before Southold for John May

I experienced a déjà vu moment the other day as I played tennis across the net from Paul May, one of the 11 children of Southold resident John May,...

08.22.2015 Columns

Gustavson Column: After 38 years, Marty Garrell is still loving the outdoors

With the passing of “Focus on Nature” columnist Paul Stoutenburgh, the recent retirement of Louisa Hargrave’s “The Oeno Files” wine column and the previous semi-retirement of my own “The...

07.22.2015 Columns

Column: A nightmare right before our eyes

I have never liked that intersection. Ever since our daughter and her family moved from East Marion to Cutchogue several years ago, the former Joan Giger Walker and I...

07.03.2015 Columns

Gustavson Column: The man who ran the other NSA

If you’ve lived on the North Fork for a while, you probably have driven past it numerous times. It’s at the southwest corner of Front and Fourth streets in...

06.12.2015 Columns

Gustavson Column: This is the wrong weekend for Tall Ships

“What do they want me to do, dress up like Donald Duck and wave to the crowd…” —David Kapell Back in the day, in the late ’70s, I was involved...

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