11.23.2019 Columns Suffolk Closeup: Election 2020 — it’s on With Election 2019 past and the blizzard of campaign signs that lined Suffolk County roadways mostly gone — thankfully — it’s Election 2020 that’s coming. The announcement last week...
07.05.2019 Island Profiles Jean Dickerson: You can go home again Sometimes heaven is called “a better place” and by that definition, Jean Dickerson is in heaven. She was born on Shelter Island in the house on Midway Road that...
11.18.2018 Columns Suffolk Closeup: A look back, a look ahead What a midterm election — in Suffolk County and the nation! When I entered my polling place, a poll-watcher commented about how it had been an extremely busy day....
11.19.2016 Politics Suffolk Closeup: Inside the elections The astonishing win of the U.S. presidency by Donald Trump on the Republican ticket has, to put it mildly, overshadowed all other political news out of the 2016 election....
07.24.2014 News This week in Shelter Island history 50 YEARS AGO A word from Otis Pike Congressman Otis Pike reported to the home folks back on the East End that Washington was a city of “political animals”...