01.25.2020 Island Profiles Island Profile: Shelter Island’s Kal Lewis is running his way to Iowa A few years back, Kenneth (Kal) Lewis, a 17-year old senior and one of the best high school runners in New York State, bought a large foam die —...
01.09.2020 Columns Life on the Half Shell: Whatever happened to good penmanship? Over the holidays I found a writing assignment from my grade school years and saw that my 4th-grade signature was perfection. After years of struggling mightily to learn cursive...
01.06.2020 Island Profiles Shelter Island School senior Abby Kotula is a quiet leader out to see the world Abby Kotula is vice president of the Shelter Island Class of 2020, a multi-sport athlete, and although she doesn’t consider herself a great cook, when it’s time for macaroni...
12.15.2019 Columns Charity’s column: The fall that just fell The fall equinox happened right before my eyes at the Heights post office on Saturday, Oct. 19, when Jim Eklund, still dressed in his three-season uniform of shorts, nearly...
12.13.2019 Island Profiles Peter Miedema: Teacher, coach, counsel to kids When Peter Miedema was a high school student in Accord, N.Y. (population 562) he worked at an IGA owned by a local family and over the years became part...
