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,...
03.07.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: Thank you, Mrs. M. According to the New York State Union of Teachers, slightly more than one-third of the state’s public school educators are set to retire soon or already have. Add to...
02.28.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: Winter sports and brave attempts I was glued to the Winter Olympics, which I like more than the summer games. That’s probably because I was raised in Ohio, where it’s winter most of the...
02.14.2026 Opinion Guest Column: An old ode to iceboating in Orient With iceboating returning to Orient’s Hallocks Bay this winter for the first time in more than a decade, thanks to sustained freezing temperatures, Orient residents John and Joyce Holzapfel...
02.07.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: ICE and Long Island Although a thousand miles separate Minneapolis and Suffolk County, there are Suffolk connections to the protests in Minneapolis in which Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot to death...
01.31.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: Snow speech I was thinking the other day when the snowstorm was on its way about the Sarah Palin/William Shakespeare nexus, which led my mind to wander. This will make sense...
01.24.2026 Guest Spot Guest Column: On being an introvert I am not one, but many people I love are. Sometimes it’s difficult for me to understand why they just don’t want to “go out and play.” Being an...
12.27.2025 Guest Spot Guest Column: Endgame for English? Gather round all tribal members of the Misanthropes, Cranks, Boors, Pedants, Malcontents and Grouches. Please be seated. Is that everyone? Yes, you in the back, the Nitpickers, will you...
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