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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,...

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...

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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...

01.14.2021 Columns

Column: A selfless young man gone far too soon

Mark Rolle couldn’t help but laugh when a somber moment took an unexpected turn. He stood in front of mourners gathered inside Our Lady of Good Counsel R.C. Church...

01.10.2021 Columns

Column: A group of winners unlike any other

The first editions of our newspapers each year are always among my favorites. They may be stressful to finish at times, coming off the holiday, but the reward is...

12.20.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: Congressman Zeldin’s actions are an assault on our Constitution

Last week Congressman Lee Zeldin joined almost two-thirds of the House Republicans to sign on to an amicus (friend of the Court) brief in support of the recently dismissed...

12.05.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: Family Health and Wellness of Cornell Cooperative Extension needs your help

The Family Health and Wellness educators received devastating news recently. The 2021 Suffolk County budget reduced FHW funding to 0%, thereby eliminating funding for the entire department. For decades...

12.04.2020 Columns

Guest Spot: Always tough and engaged, Arthur Tasker was a Greenport fixture

It is with a heavy heart that I write to pay tribute to neighbor, citizen, political gadfly and Greenport Zoning Board member Arthur Tasker. We met Arthur and Lucia...

11.13.2020 Columns

Guest Column: We must be better than the last four years

In 2016, following the election of Donald Trump, I wrote to The Suffolk Times in staunch opposition to him winning the presidency. His campaign was enough to demonstrate his...

11.07.2020 Columns

Guest Column: DA should handle police retirement party investigation

As The Suffolk Times has reported, “A dozen Orient Fire Department members or associates were exposed to COVID-19 at the district’s budget hearing Tuesday, the district confirmed in an...

10.31.2020 Columns

Guest Column: We can’t vote yet, so please don’t let your chance slip by

An urgent request from the sixth- and seventh-graders of the Peconic Community School: We need you to vote. We can’t, but you CAN! Your vote can change our country....

10.04.2020 Columns

Guest Column: A breakdown of the social order

My father was a lifelong Republican and my mother a lifelong Democrat. Yet in their 50-plus-year marriage, there was never a discussion, heated or otherwise, on candidates or political...

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