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...
09.05.2021 Columns Column: UFOs are no laughing matter For the record, I have never seen what I would call a UFO. Not that I don’t want to. I would love to. Beyond that, I would love to...
08.01.2021 Columns Column: When farmers fought nuclear power, and won When a well-wisher offered him a premature birthday greeting, Robbie Hartmann, who began his 88th year Saturday, responded good-naturedly with a cautionary note. “I didn’t make it yet,” he...
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...
01.03.2021 COVID-19 Sports Desk: Life in a pandemic isn’t fun and games The arrival of the COVID-19 global pandemic struck different people in different ways. For me, March 11, 2020, is the day that stands out in infamy. That was the...
09.10.2020 Sports Column: Greenport great is gone The eyes were drawn to his knees. One couldn’t help but stare at those ordinary looking knees and wonder how Gerald Crenshaw could do such extraordinary things with them....
08.15.2020 Columns Column: Working with words requires write stuff The longer you do it, the better you get — and no matter how old you are, you can always get better. Never will you hit a ceiling where...
05.24.2020 Columns Column: A special grave marker for ‘Pop-Pop’ Something was missing. When 10-year-old Namiah Santacroce looked down at the gravesite of his late great-grandfather, Tom Santacroce, there was no indication at all of who was buried there....
07.20.2019 Columns Column: What’s next in space exploration? Amazing. Absolutely amazing. That’s the feat itself. The fact that it happened 50 years ago is remarkable in its own right. How could it be that 50 years passed...
03.23.2015 Sports Bowling: Forget 300. How about an 821 from a 74-year-old? SPORTS DESK/Bob Liepa In bowling, 300 is unquestionably the sexy number. Dropping down 300 pins in one game is perfection. Even so, other numbers can be more desirable and...