08.04.2024 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Destroying 400 million years of L.I. life “We are destroying this incredible living fossil, chopping it up for bait,” New York State Assemblymember Deborah J. Glick (D-NYC) told me in an interview last week. Ms. Glick...
09.10.2022 Columns 35% of Shelter Island students are economically disadvantaged After 34 years, Julie Davis Lutz, Ph.D., retired at the end of June as the chief operating officer of Eastern Suffolk BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services). Before leaving...
09.21.2021 Opinion Suffolk Closeup: Housing options shrinking in the county “LI HOME PRICES GO UP, UP, UP,” declared the front-page headline in Newsday last week. The article began: “Home prices reached a new high in Suffolk County …The median...
05.23.2021 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Consider the horseshoe crab … before it’s too late For decades, Suffolk County resident John T. Tanacredi has been a crusader for the survival of horseshoe crabs. He is a world expert on the creatures. He was speaking...