11.25.2021 Columns Column: A year after pandemic-altered Thanksgiving, traditions new and old return When Thanksgiving plans came up for discussion at the weekly family video meeting, my mother asked if we could celebrate this year like we did not last year. At...
02.13.2021 Education Peconic Community School’s new track team raises $1,200 for charities It’s not even three months old yet, and the Peconic Community School’s new track team is already a hit. Particularly with a couple of charities. Peconic Community School, an...
08.18.2019 Columns Column: Long live the Queen that sailed for 50 years I was 11 when my father parked a brand-new Pontiac in our driveway. He named her Yvonne because he liked the way Yvonne LeMans rolled off his tongue.
07.15.2018 Columns Column: When it’s way too hot to even potchke When it gets very hot on Shelter Island, chickens lay fewer eggs, turkeys call a temporary truce in the battle for reproductive rights and the horses on Midway Road...
06.17.2018 Columns Column: Amazing what the beach will give up Last week my dog, Mabel, found a starfish on a Shelter Island beach. I measured, Googled and identified it as a knobby starfish, native to Malaysia. It was so...
