02.28.2021 COVID-19 Editorial: With 500K deaths, we are anything but exceptional America has now crossed into what this time last year would have seemed simply unimaginable: more than 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 in 12 months. There have been more than...
02.27.2021 Columns Column: Spreading joy through The Giving Pears Project Elizabeth Lopez had always kept her health issues private. As a photographer who specializes in weddings and family portraits, she worried about how clients might perceive her if they...
02.21.2021 Editorials Editorial: The state Legislature must fully fund the North Fork Coalition for Behavioral Health The tragic death of 16-year-old Ryan Oliver, a sophomore at Mattituck High School, has reinforced the need for school districts to pay close attention to the mental health needs...
02.20.2021 Columns Column: Time-traveling back to Oceanside The car I was sitting in along with my two sisters, Debbie and Joanne, suddenly stopped. “There it is!” Debbie announced. “Where?” I asked, puzzled. “There!” she answered, pointing...
02.12.2021 Columns Column: Group confronts ‘historical amnesia’ identifying more than 500 local slaves In 1748 and 1749 announcements were placed in several New York City newspapers about slaves that had run away from their owners. The slaves in question, however, weren’t fugitives...
02.11.2021 Columns Guest Column: Reflecting on nearly 20 years at helm of Peconic Bay Medical Center I remember the day like it was yesterday. It was a brisk afternoon in mid-March 2001, nearly 20 years ago. I had completed two interviews with the hospital board and now...
02.07.2021 Columns Column: February contains some surprises The smallest in the family, but unique among its siblings for much more than size. And the only shape-shifter, changeling and magician, which every now and then becomes larger,...
02.04.2021 Editorials Editorial: Who cares, Mr. Cuomo? Your constituents do Few people saw their star rise higher at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic than New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. At a time when the federal government downplayed the...
01.31.2021 Columns Guest Spot: Receiving the coveted COVID-19 vaccine shouldn’t come down to luck For us I am an 81-year-old retired nurse practitioner/psychologist, married to a 93-year-old retired urologist. We live in an over 55-community in Riverhead and were anxious to get signed...
01.30.2021 Columns Guest Spot: Five reasons to be vaccinated, two not to The old question — ‘Should I get vaccinated?’ — has become more urgent during this pandemic. I‘ve grappled with this question, and as a physician, have weighed the pros...
