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School car wash canceled
May 24, 2013
Don’t forget to vote: Polls open until 9 p.m.
May 20, 2013
Obituaries
Obituary: Reporter staffer David Lee Draper
May 20, 2013
Obituaries: Draper, Rodgers
March 7, 2013
Real Estate
ZBA: Both yes and no on controversial house
May 23, 2013
High end real estate deals escalate
May 1, 2013
Opinion
Gimme Shelter: The baby of the family
May 24, 2013
This week's letters to the editor
May 24, 2013
Columns
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Column: Fireplaces as life’s markers
I am living in my golden years of residential fireplaces and wood-burning. The bookcase-flanked, brick fireplace in our house in the Center reliably heats up the living room and reaches around the corner to the thermostat to calm, at least for a while, the thirsty oil-burning boiler in the basement. The...
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Column: Meet the new editor of the Reporter
With our friend Sheila visiting from England a few years back, Mary and I decided one summer evening to take her to dinner. We were living then just a block from the North Ferry dock in Greenport, and so walked onboard and stood outside for the crossing. As the ferry...
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Sports Column: Life lessons learned from my daughter
I am often struck by how much I’ve learned about life from golf. And how much I’ve learned about golf from life. Those of you who know me know I lost my loving daughter, Nancy, last week and she is still foremost in my mind. I’ve put enough positive spin on...
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Column: Find a few people and play a sport
Sports, sports and more sports is what a group of Islanders have been doing for one week every year for the past 25 years. When it gets chilly up north, 16 to 20 guys have been getting together for a journey to the golf capital of the world, Myrtle Beach, South...
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Column: Aided case was a scary episode, but it did not stall my trip
This is the story of my “aided case,” although this was not to ELIH via the Shelter Island Emergency Medical Service. This was to Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan on the arm of my wife, Jane. It started the night before, after a dinner of scallops...
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Column: Fall reminds us the endless summer had its limits
For many who live on the Island year-round, summer is a beautiful curse. I wait all winter and through the rainy spring for June’s arrival, then count the days until Labor Day. Taking on as much work as I can, I feel like I’m missing the whole season. I am...
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Eye on the Ball: Coach cultivates a varsity tennis program
Although I have watched a lot of tennis, I must admit that I really know very little about the game outside of the fact that it is a lifetime sport. I also must admit that I always preferred watching womens tennis mainly because each point has a rally. In mens tennis,...
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Column: A newfound soft spot for people caught up in news
As I get older and creakier, one troubling thing I notice besides an expanding waistline, damn it (back trouble has ruined my gym drill, temporarily, I hope), is an expanding soft spot for people who get caught up in the news. Editing an Appeals Board story this week, I related completely...
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Column: Doing what comes naturally
My spirits soared as the Labor Day weekend approached. Beaches crammed with humans, a vast sea of exposed flesh awaited me. While some may ogle other body parts, my fetish is shins and backs of knees. In my book, there is nothing quite so beautiful and alluring as a shin,...
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Suffolk Closeup: Ask those who really know about waste
With Suffolk County government hard-pressed financially, Suffolk Legislator Tom Climi held a hearing for county employees recently to suggest ways the county could save money. “One of the most remarkable things that came out of this,” commented Mr. Climi afterwards, “is that our employees were thrilled to be asked for their...
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Column: Finding lives and treasures in yard sales
If you want to create a feeding frenzy on a Saturday morning on the Island, have a yard sale. We hosted one a couple of weeks ago. It’s a good way to make a pile of money from things you don’t want. The cross-section of people who attend yard sales...
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Slice of Life: Wind, tide and an Island at starboard
Lucy likes to go around the island. In the kitchen. Our 13-month-old granddaughter spends quite a bit of time circumnavigating the five-by-nine-foot island, opening cabinet doors and checking out the recycling bin. The island is also where she eats and watches everyone cook. In the short time she’s been visiting,...
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Column: Who’ll admit to seeing those orange lights?
There’s a story I’d love to do for the Reporter but I can’t find a way to get a hold of it. I need a number of responsible, respectable people to interview who’ve seen the phenomenon I want to write about. I also need some authoritative official sources who will...
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Golf Column: My little heaven on earth
For the past few weeks, I seem to be watching sports full time, both in person and on TV. With the addition of the London Olympics to the regular lineup of televised sports, as well as local events, I had more to watch than hours in a day. This is...
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Column: Lulu’s night with grandpa; ‘No worries!’
There is probably not one square yard of our kitchen floor or dining deck that doesn’t have a squashed grape or a Cheerio on it. Cabinet doors and low level drawers have been opened and disemboweled. The yard is adorned with a new swing from the locust branch, a climbing...
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Suffolk Closeup: The fliers vs. the ear-plugged
“Work To Weekend In 30 Minutes,” proclaims the advertisement for Talon Air. “Fly NYC to the Hamptons in our Sikorsky Helicopter…” What’s not mentioned in the ad is the racket of noise hitting below as the choppers cruise loud and low over Nassau County, western and central Suffolk County and the...
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Monday Briefing: Olympics remind us of all we can accomplish
Why do we love the Olympics so much? I found myself involved in several conversations on this topic the past couple weeks. Is it our love of country? Our obsession with sports? Maybe it's just a great inexpensive way to fill our nights in the dead of summer, when most of our...
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Column: 20 years of living without a sense of smell
The other night I dreamed of Bounce fabric softener. The dream was so vivid, I thought I was awake, smelling early morning laundry in a warm dryer. But when I woke up, I was still smell-blind. I haven’t smelled anything in 20 years. Not since a surgeon, performing minor sinus surgery...
