07.17.2021 Columns Column: Twelve minutes after takeoff, 230 lives were lost On the night of July 17, 1996, I was driving east on the Long Island Expressway, headed home to Cutchogue after a workday at Newsday. I passed over the...
06.14.2021 Columns Guest Spot: True patriots defend the U.S. Constitution Disgruntled Republicans allege that “voter fraud” “stole” the 2020 election but produce no evidence whatsoever to support that claim. In fact, Trump’s attorneys filed 62 lawsuits and lost 61....
03.08.2021 Columns Column: Local restaurants and shops deserve our patience with COVID rules more than ever There are few North Fork institutions as beloved as Magic Fountain in Mattituck. In fact, last year’s most-liked Instagram post on our feed @the_northforker was a simple photo of...
10.09.2020 Editorials Guest Spot: Every patriot should be anti-fascist The sitting president has made it clear that he will not commit to a peaceful transfer of power should the voters deny him a second term. New reporting from...
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...
09.29.2019 Columns Guest Spot: About all those comments … this is who I am I would like to directly respond to the attacks that I have been receiving online and on social media in recent days. In the past weeks I have been...
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.
08.08.2019 Columns Column: Shark sightings are something to celebrate In recent weeks, quite a few sharks have made headlines around Long Island. First there was drone footage of sharks corralling and then feasting on a school of Atlantic...
06.06.2019 Columns Wick Column: June 6, 1944 was an extraordinary day June 6, 1944, D-Day, is a day that fundamentally changed history and pointed America, and all of Europe, in an entirely new direction. World War II had gone on...
