12.06.2025 Guest Spot Guest Column: Always look on the bright side I am the poster child for “Always look on the bright side.” That song from Monty Python’s movie was the theme for my weekly commentary on WLIW radio, back...
11.22.2025 Guest Spot Guest Spot: Nancy Green Teaching right from wrong “Tell your sibling you’re sorry!” Many parents have said this or a variation of it. It’s a parent’s early attempt at teaching a child to...
09.14.2025 Guest Spot Guest Spot: Childhood Cancer, a month of awareness is not enough Four years ago, at 8 years old, our granddaughter, Leah, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a highly treatable cancer with a high success rate for a complete cure....
05.04.2025 Editorials Guest Spot: Joyce Beckenstein Storm clouds over CAST When a summer storm rolls in, North Forkers know what to do: secure the shutters, stock up on essentials, charge the phones. The storm comes....
03.01.2025 Opinion Guest Spot: Margaret Rose de Cruz “Why I’m running for Village Trustee” I would like to introduce myself: Margaret Rose de Cruz, an 11-year resident of Greenport, running for Village Trustee on March 18. Greenport...
01.25.2025 Opinion Guest Spot: John Kramer, Unpacking the unaffordability of housing I have come to learn that housing unaffordability is a problem everywhere. A useful measure of affordability may be the “median multiple”: Divide a location’s median home price by...
12.08.2024 Opinion Guest Spot: Raymond Ankrum Setting the record straight for RCFA I read Riverhead Central Faculty Association president Gregory Wallace’s recent “Guest Spot” column (“Requirements for a new superintendent,” Nov. 28) with interest. While...
10.19.2024 Opinion Guest Spot: It’s time to make some hard choices The Oct. 10 issue of The Suffolk Times ran a frontpage story on a request from Sandy Beach residents to designate their Greenport community, which is situated on a...
10.05.2024 Opinion Guest Spot: Support your fellow voters If you want to play a direct role in ensuring that all eligible Suffolk County residents are able to vote in the upcoming election — and that the election...
09.28.2024 Opinion Guest Spot: At home on the North Fork On a recent Saturday morning, I went to see Don Miguel on his two-acre Southold farm. We chatted about the problems he has had with an insect that laid...