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...
04.24.2022 Columns Column: Navigating a ‘post-pandemic’ life with a toddler Nearly one year to the day after receiving my first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, I tested positive for the virus that has upended so many people’s lives. More...
02.14.2022 Columns Column: Ten years ago, after Super Bowl XLVI, my life changed Ten years ago this month, the morning after Super Bowl XLVI (Giants 21 — Patriots 17) I gave up drinking. People asked why. That is, some people asked, and...
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...
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...
07.05.2021 Columns Guest Spot: We deserve an apology for these lies It is our community’s misfortune to be served by a newspaper that would publish Hugh Prestwood’s letter (“Guest Spot got it all wrong,” June 17). Witness how rag sheet...
06.19.2021 Columns Guest Spot: New North Fork soundtrack: power tools For years the North Fork has been a calm, quiet oasis where people come to relax and rejoice in the area’s serene splendor. A beautiful semi-rural sanctuary that is...
06.09.2021 Columns Column: The buried past eventually reveals itself In this column, I have previously written about different aspects of North Fork history. These stories have explored the fate of the Native people who lived here, the Revolution...
05.08.2021 Columns Column: A talented pianist, teacher turns 100 Henrietta Cetas didn’t set out to become a music teacher. If not for the persistence of a neighbor’s child who lived across the street, she may have never discovered...
