01.18.2021 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Halfway through I don’t think I’m unlike other retired Island seniors heading into the second year of our pandemic and its restrictions. I keep hoping that it will be over soon....
01.15.2021 Columns Codger’s column: Zeldin must go The stationary bicycle arrived in pieces. Cur II was not confident that Codger and Crone could assemble it properly. Being an apricot standard poodle, he called an Island company...
01.10.2021 Around the Island George Hubbard, on and off-Island To those residents of the Village of Greenport he’s Mr. Mayor. To Island residents he operates an auto repair shop that’s the only New York State Inspection Station here....
01.05.2021 Columns Gimme Shelter: Dishing on doomed diets How’s that New Year’s diet going? What? You’re back to Danish and bacon for breakfast, chicken nuggets for lunch and beers and pizza-with-extra-cheese for dinner? And who’s the evil...
01.04.2021 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Looking back, looking ahead So here we are, beginning another year. I think that I join with the rest of the population hoping we get a handle on this disease and that it...
01.01.2021 Columns The morning after The Poles wake up to what they say is a howling of kittens. The French greet the morning with a wooden mouth and a hair ache, while the Danes...
12.27.2020 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Battling giants — and winning — in the county John J. Mullen, a leading wordsmith of the anti-nuclear power movement on Long Island, died last month. Working pro bono with attorney Tom Twomey, who passed away in 2014,...
12.27.2020 Around the Island Tree talk: Trees in the Winter Winter wonders: Though it’s understandable to think of leafless, winter trees as drab and lifeless, it’s really not so. Take a walk and admire their expressive branching structure that...
12.26.2020 Columns Column: Feeling like Christmas Whenever I hear someone say that they don’t have that Christmas feeling I remember something that happened back in the mid-80s when I was one of the chaperones for...
12.23.2020 Around the Island The stuff of Christmas magic: A new tree, timeless memories By far my most vivid holiday memories center around the Christmas trees we’ve decorated over the years. Our family story stretches back to tales of my mother’s childhood. An...
12.21.2020 Around the Island Charity’s Column: Snow day On a mild afternoon early last week, I spotted the first reliable sign of winter. I saw it on the windshield of our neighbor’s car, and it wasn’t precipitation....
12.20.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: A new kind of Christmas It’s hard to believe that Christmas is upon us and then New Year’s. We’ve been locked down since mid-March and the future still looks grim. The Christmas season has...
12.17.2020 Columns Column: Vaccine visions We were all lined up outside for the vaccine. It was a sunny, pleasant day, perfect for a new sort of adventure. A little bit subdued and watchful, we...
12.14.2020 Around the Island Richard’s Almanac: Learning — or not —from mistakes It was “deja vu” all over again, as they say. Redundancy jokes aside, last Sunday I felt as though I was repeating the past, and not in a good...
12.12.2020 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Elections have consequences There will likely be a new ballot line in Suffolk County and the rest of New York State as a result of last month’s election: the elimination of several...
