02.17.2020 Columns Senior Column: Warm feelings at “The Big Chill” I took a break from the mid-February gloom to go to the school auditorium and watch “The Big Chill” performed by an enthusiastic group of 3rd, 4th and 5th...
01.28.2020 Columns Gimme Shelter: Farewell to a loving big brother My father could pun at will. After any remark, uttered by anyone, he could make a pun, some good, some funny, most appalling. Fortunately, he almost always kept this...
01.26.2020 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Offering farewell to retiring Senator Ken LaValle The thing about State Senator Kenneth LaValle, who just announced he will not be running for re-election, is that above all he is an educator. He’s been a senator...
01.24.2020 Columns Column: Backlash over New York’s bail reform fueled by fear With family members by his side, Thomas Murphy walked out of a Central Islip courtroom Tuesday, free to return home ahead of his March 17 sentencing. Since his initial...
01.15.2020 Columns Just Saying: A father and son story The last few years of my father’s life were rocky. Unlike my mother, who nearly made it to 103 with nothing physically wrong with her, my father, pushing 78,...