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12.04.2022 Columns

Column: The brilliant oddball

In most ways, he was the least likely newspaper impresario. In most ways, he was a most absent-minded professor. But for the group who worked for him, it was...

11.28.2022 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: New push for Long Island nuclear plants

Suffolk County is nuclear-free. None of the seven to 11 nuclear power plants proposed for Suffolk became a reality after decades of intense grassroots and governmental opposition. A key...

11.24.2022 Columns

Gimme Shelter: A working holiday

The first New Year’s Eve I worked, I got to the garage in the early afternoon and took a seat on the bench in the drivers’ room. The cabbie...

11.23.2022 Around the Island

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...

11.23.2022 Columns

Codger’s Column: Thanks for Thanksgiving

Codger’s frequent lunch buddy, Ye Esteemed Shakespearean (YES), last week rolled his eyes theatrically (the air seemed to crackle) when Codger said, “Ye Know Who is back on the...

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11.22.2022 Around the Island

Jenifer’s Journal: All in the family

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the eons, it’s that you can’t give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. — Rick Riordan Just...

11.20.2022 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: When Nazis marched in the county

With the opening of a play off-Broadway in Manhattan titled “Camp Siegfried,” what was once a major center for Nazis in the region in years before World War II...

11.13.2022 Columns

Suffolk Closeup: What is the most successful life form?

The enchanting and important “A Celebration of Trees,” an exhibit at the Southampton Arts Center, received its inspiration on Shelter Island. It came from the experience of artist Laurie...

11.09.2022 Around the Island

Jenifer’s Journal: Article of faith

Faith does not make things easy — it makes them possible. — Anonymous Strictly speaking, this should be called a “Column of Faith,” I suppose, but faith, as in...

11.07.2022 Columns

Sports Desk: After 30 years, it’s time to say goodbye

Driving along a winding highway through the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York one memorable day in March of 1992, it occurred to me that the path of life...

11.06.2022 Columns

Gimme Shelter: Telling time in November

Passing a green field of turf gleaming in a gray day, I saw hundreds of sea gulls standing, beaks to the wind. One raised its head to let out...

11.03.2022 Columns

Charity’s Column: Once upon a time on Shelter Island, we built affordable housing. It worked.

This is a story about what happened the last time the Town of Shelter Island found the money and the political will to help regular people live here. I’ve...

10.31.2022 Columns

Health column: The Attitude of Gratitude

The autumn season means harvest, where anything that was planted in the spring and bloomed in the summer is now ripe for the picking and ready for enjoyment. If...

10.30.2022 Columns

An October gift

This story fist appeared in 2016. It had been a few years since I’d seen Simon. When we worked it out and discovered it was almost a decade, we...

10.27.2022 Around the Island

Jenifer’s Journal: Lincoln and the Lady

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it. — Frances Wright It’s Halloween this coming Monday. When I was a kid, Halloween nearly...

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