09.18.2023 Columns Codger’s column: Comprehensible? Finally, Codger sat down, swept the crumbs off his desk and read the entire Shelter Island Comprehensive Plan Update, which bills itself as a “preliminary draft for informational purposes...
08.22.2023 Columns Codger’s Column: A welcome home It took Codger decades to realize that even with a home on Shelter Island he needed a vacation. How easy it once was, he says, to imagine the ferry...
07.16.2023 Columns Codger’s Column: The Toy Department When Codger was 19 years old, he answered a classified ad in the New York Times for editorial assistant. He needed a summer job. The job turned out to...
06.19.2023 Columns Codger’s Column: Us vs. Them After “transparency,” a term that has been carefully muddied on the Island, the go-to political word is “divisiveness,” which seems to be a way of accusing someone with strong...
05.15.2023 Columns Codger’s Column: In the stacks Codger has always loved libraries the way other people love ballfields or music rooms or auto shops or, these days, computers. As a kid he felt happy and safe...
