05.28.2020 Columns Column: Drive-in movie night was a throwback at a time we needed it most My earliest movie-going memory is seeing “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” at the old Rocky Point Drive-In. I couldn’t tell you much about the experience, but to this day, I can’t...
08.06.2017 Columns Column: Lessons from a first-time yard sale When my wife, Vera, first proposed having a yard sale, I gave her a one-word response. “Ugh.” The thought of dragging every item that no longer has value to...
07.21.2017 Business Column: Andy Harbin opens a Greenport restaurant where everyone knows his name Many have heard the story about the bartender who busts his hump slinging drinks across a bar every day and night to save enough coin to fulfill the longtime...
06.18.2017 Columns Column: What? The worrying doesn’t stop? Even to this day, with kids, a wife and a home of my own, every single phone call with my father ends with the same parting words: “Be careful...
04.16.2017 Columns Column: Nothing beats April when it comes to sports When I started dating my wife in July 2010, my timing couldn’t have been better. The Mets were 47-39. While not a bad record, it was the point in...
04.09.2017 Columns Column: Protecting and serving miles from home Perhaps you saw the images on TV in 2015 of the flames and black smoke coming from the CVS pharmacy on Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore. You almost certainly saw...
03.04.2017 Columns Parpan Column: Is Congressman Zeldin vulnerable in 2018? In 2009, shortly after New York State passed the ill-advised MTA payroll tax, I found myself in a conversation with a campaign staffer for former state Senator Brian Foley....
01.28.2017 Columns Parpan Column: More rambling from a very sick man After two days of non-stop politics I was extra fired up to watch the AFC and NFC championship games Sunday. But a little before the first game started, I...
11.19.2016 Columns Column: Now is a good time to feel inspired Lately, it seems everyone just wants an escape from the election. Last week, I had been planning a humor column about people posting on Facebook that they couldn’t wait...
11.09.2016 Columns Parpan Column: Notes from a historic election night Shortly before my head hit the pillow at 2 a.m. Wednesday, I scanned Facebook to see how my friends were reacting to the news that Donald Trump would likely...
