01.10.2025 Columns Guest Spot: How to be happier in 2025 We all like to be happy, right? But life can be hard. Or, as my grandfather wisely pointed out, “Life wasn’t meant to be easy. It was meant to...
10.19.2024 Columns Guest Spot: It’s time to make some hard choices The Oct. 10 issue of The Suffolk Times ran a frontpage story on a request from Sandy Beach residents to designate their Greenport community, which is situated on a...
10.05.2024 Columns Guest Spot: Support your fellow voters If you want to play a direct role in ensuring that all eligible Suffolk County residents are able to vote in the upcoming election — and that the election...
08.31.2024 Columns Closing Brookhaven is a chance to end landfills The Brookhaven landfill is rapidly approaching the end of its life. It’s long overdue — for decades, the 270-foot-tall dump has poisoned the South Shore of Long Island. Sitting...
04.19.2024 Columns Column: Eleanor Lingo’s life is a history lesson In every way, Eleanor Lingo has been a pioneer in Southold Town and across the region. At nearly every stage of her life she broke one color line after...
01.29.2024 Columns Guest column: Why we can expect higher tides to come Jack Gibbons is a retired high-school teacher, adjunct professor of education at Long Island University and author of ‘Human-caused Global Warming and Climate Change: Understanding the Science.’ He lives...
05.23.2023 Agriculture Guest column: Fifty years making ‘beautiful wine in a beautiful place’ In 1973, when Alex and I came to the North Fork looking for a place to plant grapes, make wine and start a family, we wanted to make beautiful...
03.31.2023 Columns Guest Spot: Supreme Court case could change our elections It is close to impossible for the average American to follow the decisions coming out of the Supreme Court of the United States. However, certain matters that come before...
03.10.2023 Columns Column: Changes to baseball? Do not get me started We are living in truly dark times. Our institutions and traditions, handed down in America through the generations, are now under assault and seem unsteady, not able to withstand...
02.14.2023 Columns Column: On Valentine’s Day, love’s labor’s won Billie Holiday, in one of her more poignant lyrics, wrote that “love will make you drink and gamble, make you stay out all night long.” Which leads me to...
12.09.2022 Columns Equal Time: CAST needs help as it helps others The Center for Advocacy, Support and Transformation, formerly Community Action Southold Town, has been serving Town of Southold residents since 1965. We have a long history as a trusted...
12.02.2022 Columns Guest Spot: Transparency and accountability first It’s true, I didn’t support the request the Center for Advocacy, Support and Transformation recently made to the Town Board for $100,000 so it can meet the increasing demands...
12.01.2022 Columns Guest Spot: Greenport Village’s future is on the table In regards to a proposed building moratorium on commercial property in the village of Greenport, and a comment put forth by the mayor of Greenport in opposition to the...
11.16.2022 Columns Column: Research on local slave history bears fruit Two-and-a-half years ago, three people who are serious about local history got together to tackle a subject few before them had considered important: the history of slavery on the...
11.03.2022 Columns Sports Desk: After 30 years, it’s time to say goodbye Driving along a winding highway through the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York one memorable day in March of 1992, it occurred to me that the path of life...
