06.28.2025 Featured Story Just Saying: A matter of timing Without thinking too hard about it, he, in my mind’s eye, is always the 4-year-old grandkid who crawled into our bed on weekend visits to the Island. We pretended...
03.30.2025 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter column: Just Saying There’s no explaining how we ever heard of it, but somehow about 15 years ago we decided to travel to upstate New York, in the Hudson River valley region,...
12.01.2024 Featured Story Just Saying: Gifts that remain From a kid’s perspective, it was the best Christmas in terms of sheer loot. First off, I got a new high-end bicycle. Back then, in my neck of the...
11.03.2024 Featured Story Shelter Island Reporter column: Tree conversations After spending the 1970s in Vermont, I became something of a connoisseur of fall foliage. Unless you lived in a city, which I didn’t, you were surrounded by hills...
05.30.2024 Featured Story Just saying: He and me We were high school classmates. We were fellow musicians — saxophonists. I was a student council sort of guy (not sure why). He was a fine fellow but a...