07.20.2021 Columns Column: Twelve minutes after takeoff, 230 lives were lost On the night of July 17, 1996, I was driving east on the Long Island Expressway, headed home to Cutchogue after a workday at Newsday. I passed over the...
07.19.2021 Opinion Suffolk Closeup: Good eating, good environment “Kelp Help” is the title of an article in this summer’s issue of Sierra magazine, the publication of the Sierra Club. Its subtitle: “Can farming seaweed put the brakes...
07.18.2021 Cartoons Paw Print: Getting to the point From the mind and pen of Peter Waldner, the Reporter’s award-winning cartoonist.
07.15.2021 Editorial Shelter Island Reporter editorial: At the Center of town In early March 2020, Island institutions were forced to plan and put into practice methods to survive while serving the public. The Town Board put together a team, led...
07.13.2021 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Deal done in the dark The Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) behind closed doors, and with the involvement of a top state energy official — the chief executive...
07.11.2021 Columns Just Saying: Another Island It seemed like we had traveled overseas. It seemed like we had been gone for days. We did neither. All we did was take a boat from Montauk to...
07.01.2021 Columns Guest column: It is our history that troubles so many You are looking at a photograph of me and my cousin Shannon Lanier. It is a photograph that illustrates why the 1619 Project is such a white supremacist’s nightmare,...
06.29.2021 Columns Codger’s Column: Myth makers Codger and Cricket have almost finished the 18th book they have read together on FaceTime since the beginning of the plague year. They expect another satisfying climax as the...
06.24.2021 Columns Charity’s Column: Quitting time A week ago, I finally flung off the mask, and started hugging people in public. Some of them hugged me back. The collective feeling of a new start is...
06.13.2021 Letters Shelter Island Reporter Letters to the Editor: June 3-10 Medicare for all To the Editor: As journalist Sara Austin emphasized in a November 2020 article (“Thank you to our front line health care workers,” Riverhead News-Review) Suffolk County...
