Construction and landscaping have been a backdrop here for a long time, but over the past few years it has become ceaseless and everywhere.
Construction and landscaping have been a backdrop here for a long time, but over the past few years it has become ceaseless and everywhere.
“Anne of Green Gables” is the book that influenced me most in my life — not Tolstoy or Nabokov or Bruce Chatwin.
My favorite state park might be the only one in existence with more parking lots than greenways.
There has always been in this country somewhat of a disconnect between its ideals and reality.
With reports from Peconic Bay poor, there was a sense that the scallop crop in town waters would be bad as well.
Peak 2020 was reached at 3 p.m. last Thursday with a phone call from a young woman in the office at the John M. Marshall Elementary School informing me that my son, Teddy, had been determined to be a true contact of a positive Covid-19 case in the fifth grade.
It might be time for Democrats to revisit the candidate selection process in the First Congressional District.
I thought Joe Biden’s victory speech was just right, reminding us to listen to our better angels.
The schools have done a good job dealing with virus cases and preventing wider outbreaks by strictly managing their internal practices. But once outside of the school buildings, the risk of uncontrolled transmission increases.
Insomnia is how I personally discovered the philosophical truth that “I think therefore I am,” a couple of years before I heard the name Descartes and “Cogito, ergo sum” at boarding school.
Good for a hundred years, why in the world were New York’s old voting machines ever put out to pasture?
During last Thursday’s editorial meeting, one of the editors, Irene Silverman, asked why it was that I had named my sailboat after a three-headed dog.
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