01.18.2025 Community Guest Column: How to make resolutions stick How’s that New Year’s diet going? What? You had Danish and bacon for breakfast, chicken nuggets and fries for lunch and plan on beers and pizza-with-extra-cheese with the gang...
04.14.2023 Editorials Editorial: Some ground rules for letters and guest columns Every once in a while we want to remind our readers that we welcome your guest columns and letters to the editor. Even as we say we welcome them,...
09.18.2021 Editorials Guest Spot: Here are our choices for Mattituck Park District Since I was elected Mattituck Park District commissioner last year, I’ve been asked to bring greater transparency regarding the workings of the park district. To that end, here’s a...
03.10.2021 Columns Guest Spot: Gone but not forgotten It was 40 years ago this week that my sister Michelle and her husband, Bill Becker, suspiciously drowned, leaving behind three young children. Bill was found dead at Matt-a-Mar...
03.11.2018 Columns Guest Column: Serving in the Army alongside ‘The King’ For many years afterward, it would be one of my favorite gambits at cocktail parties and other venues of idle gossip. Whenever the conversation drifted into the area of...
01.13.2018 Columns Guest Column: Confronting mental health disorders How do we, as a community, begin to address the very real mental health disorders — acute and chronic episodes of anxiety and depression, and addiction — of our...
11.22.2014 Columns Guest Spot: Safeguarding our scenery’s crown jewel “When I cross that causeway, my whole mood changes.” My friend was referring to the emotional lift she gets every time she enters Orient from the west. No wonder....
09.22.2013 Columns Guest Column: A road map for Goldsmith Inlet decision The significant issues surrounding Goldsmith Inlet in Peconic have led me to question the process of analysis and decision-making that has been in use to this point. I believe...
09.01.2013 Columns Column: Let’s stop railing at Long Island Rail Road It’s a summer Friday afternoon and you’re stuck in traffic on the Long Island Expressway, headed from the city to the North Fork. If you’re traveling by bus for...
02.02.2012 Columns Guest Column: Wind power can play a role in Southold A meeting recently took place at Mattituck-Laurel Library regarding the Suffolk County Water Authority’s proposed wind turbine in Laurel. I was somewhat offended by the authority’s interest in having...
