07.18.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: Preserving parental decision-making rights One issue that resonates with many North Fork parents is the loss of control over decisions involving their children once they turn 18. While we may know better, an...
07.11.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: Greed Madonna’s 1985 anthem “Material Girl” seems very quaint in 2026. As she sang that “the boy with the cold hard cash is always Mr. Right,” I am thinking that...
07.04.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: David Magaña Hello world — er, East End Every so often, while on a walk with Henry, an 88-year-old widower who has become my close friend, technology sneaks into our conversation....
07.04.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: Open letter to Congressman Nick LaLota I am writing as executive director of OLA of Eastern Long Island, Inc. (Organización Latino Americana), a nonprofit Latino-focused advocacy organization working in the five East End towns of...
06.27.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: Mary Bess Phillips Gratitude for Greenport In moments when our conversations feel heavy or divided, I think it’s important to pause and remember who we are as a village — not in...
06.20.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: You didn’t ask, but … Congratulations to the Class of 2026. Not counting pre-K, you’ve been in school for 13 years — 72.2% of...
06.13.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: Do I need a will? Can I do it myself? Whether you need a will is not as simple to answer as you may think. And if you do...
06.06.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: D-Day and the baby of the family He was the man I never knew, the man who gave me my name. He was brought closer to...
05.30.2026 Guest Spot Guest column: What’s become of gambling? When I was a kid there was just Las Vegas. Grownups could go out there and play blackjack or craps and gape at high rollers and women with high...
05.25.2026 Opinion Guest column: Memorial Day is not a day off for cemetery caretakers Where Memorial Day is not a day off A few years ago, just days before Memorial Day, I ran into a guy, Glenn Addario, who had left his home...
05.16.2026 Guest Spot Guest column: How executors and trustees protect families Since you care about your family, it’s important to choose the right people to help them when doing your estate planning. That’s where an executor or trustee comes in....
05.09.2026 Columns Column: Travel tips Do we travel just so we can come home again? This question seemed to be answered in the affirmative by the faces my traveling companion (MTC) and I looked...
05.02.2026 Guest Spot Guest Spot: Dave Kapell A warning sign for Greenport’s future The tide has turned the wrong way for Greenport. In his recent presentation of the proposed 2026-27 village budget, village treasurer Adam Brautigam...
04.25.2026 Featured Story Guest Column: Pant and water I was summoned to the kitchen window: “Look there, in the middle of the yard. I think your Miracle Tree has finally started to grow.” Oh, no. I wasn’t...
04.11.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: Tim Leitch Tenacity, TSA and the travelers at Terminal 8 I left the North Fork in the middle of the night, heading to JFK for a 9 a.m. flight to London....
04.04.2026 Columns Guest column: Richard Vandenburgh Striving for good governance in Greenport For more than 20 months, the effort to bring an ice rink back to Greenport has seen little meaningful progress. That needs to...
03.28.2026 News Guest Column: Letters to myself A friend who took a writing course had an assignment to write a letter to her younger self, offering words of wisdom from her “older” self. I recently celebrated...
03.14.2026 Columns Guest Column: A visit to County Clare for St. Patrick’s Day There was music along the street. A faint, insistent melody of fiddle, pennywhistle and the muffled thump of a handheld drum sounding through the main street of Ennistymon, County Clare,...