04.30.2017 Columns Guest Spot: Wine to table on the North Fork While the East End of Long Island offers beautiful scenery and recreation, it is the distinct food and wine landscape and deep pride in it that sets this area...
04.01.2017 Columns Guest Spot: Working to enhance, protect our land Since the first settlers came to this area, Long Island has been defined by its agriculture. The farmer’s way of life — deep concern for the land and a...
03.26.2017 Columns Guest Spot: Share your compassion with everyone About five years ago, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. For two years I received all the standard advised treatments at Stony Brook University Hospital, but I...
02.26.2017 Columns Guest Spot: Here’s how we can improve bus service on the North Fork During a short visit to Winter Park, Colo., I was impressed by how this small town prepares for their seasonal visitors. Winter Park has a permanent population of 999...
02.25.2017 Columns Guest Column: The positive impact of the North Fork’s wine industry The first day in 1973 that my then-husband, Alex, and I arrived on the farm we’d bought in Cutchogue, on Long Island’s North Fork, to plant the region’s first...
12.28.2016 Columns Guest Spot: Big win on farmland for voters, taxpayers Christmas came early for Suffolk County voters in the form of a New York State Supreme Court decision on preserving farmland.
11.13.2016 Columns Guest Spot: Moratorium overlooks industry benefits Earlier this spring, I began working through the application process with Southold Town to build a production brewery on an industrially zoned parcel located on the corner of Oregon...
10.30.2016 Columns Guest Spot: Critical election for American Christians With a very important Election Day coming up Nov. 8 and a lot on the line for our land of the free and home of the brave — by...
10.23.2016 Columns Guest Spot: On Election Day, vote yes on CPF extension This Election Day, voters on the North Fork can take a huge step to improve water quality and preserve open space and farmland. Since 1999, the Community Preservation Fund...
10.08.2016 Columns Guest Spot: It’s the town’s job to protect Route 48 The Army Corps of Engineers’ proposal to mitigate coastal erosion at Hashamomuck Cove is ill advised and will prove to be a measure by which taxpayer money is flushed...