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12.06.2021 Columns

Codger’s column: Ghosts at the table

It was a wonderful Thanksgiving, especially after missing out on last year. There were family firsts! A grandson brought a girlfriend. Codger actually polished the Crone family silver, hours...

12.04.2021 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: State ‘solar tax’ denounced

The move referred to repeatedly as a “solar tax” was lambasted by speakers at Long Island Power Authority public hearings last week. The New York State Public Service Commission...

12.04.2021 Columns

Column: Two minutes is all it takes in a house fire

We see reminders about fire safety so often that they can become like white noise. The reminders to change batteries in smoke detectors. Or to plan an evacuation route...

12.03.2021 Around the Island

Shorelines: A night to remember

Does anyone need me to tell them that a Tony Bennett-Lady Gaga concert was outstanding? Whaddayakiddingme? No, this is not a review of “One Last Time: a 95th Birthday...

11.29.2021 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: A stupid ‘solution’ to beach erosion

With the Fire Island to Montauk Point Project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to be restarted in 2023 — what Kevin McAllister, president of Defend H20, describes...

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11.26.2021 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: Power company to tax solar

The Long Island Power Authority will hold public hearings this coming Monday, Nov. 29, on what is being called a “solar tax” by solar power advocates. LIPA is following...

11.24.2021 Around the Island

Tom Hashagen: Bloody napkins and the legend of Thanksgiving

Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day, America will go on its annual turkey binge. Approximately 45 million of these birds will be grilled, roasted, smoked, deep-fried, rotisseried, mostly overcooked and served by...

11.24.2021 Around the Island

Charity’s column: Is it time for a new Thanksgiving?

When Thanksgiving plans came up for discussion at the weekly family video meeting, my mother asked if we could celebrate this year like we did not last year. At...

11.23.2021 Around the Island

Turkey Island: Everything you want to know about Meleagris gallopavo

Here’s a reprise of a story published last Thanksgiving. In certain parts of the Island, it seems as if nature has gone haywire, and our human habitat is being...

11.21.2021 Around the Island

Jenifer’s Journal: Blessings in disguise

If ever there was a time for me to reflect on the blessings in my life, this is it. So many of us have been given so much to...

11.19.2021 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: Election post postmortems

“This is a red wave!” said Suffolk District Attorney Tim Sini (D-Babylon) as he conceded Election Night in his run for re-election against Ray Tierney of Holtsville, the Republican...

11.18.2021 Around the Island

Jenifer’s Journal: Easy virtue?

But what is liberty without wisdom, without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils, for it is folly, vice and madness without tuition or restraint. — Edmund...

11.15.2021 Around the Island

Column: It’s time to quit

Most Americans know that the last Thursday in November is Thanksgiving. But how many of us know that the third Thursday in November is always the “Great American Smoke-out?”...

11.14.2021 Columns

Column: ‘I remember tears’

In the wake of a highly successful field trip to the Empire State Building observatory with our grandson, Max, 14, a couple months back, we arranged for another Manhattan...

11.13.2021 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: The right to a clean environment

Among the most important things that happened on Election Day last week for Suffolk County (and New York State) was passage of the Green Amendment. That was Proposal Two...

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