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Gustavson Column: Exploring a gun buyback program
A Bushmaster M-4 semi-automatic, similar to the one allegedly used in the Newtown school shootings. So I have this old, rusty, single-shot, 20-gauge shotgun sitting in the corner of our bedroom,...
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Last chance to win our annual Oscars contest
Yes, it’s true, ladies and gentlemen! You have arrived at our annual Academy Awards contest column, wherein readers of same are challenged to pick the winners of the 85th Academy Awards, which will be...
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Gustavson Column: We made quite an unsatisfactory trade
TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO | Al Krupski won the special legislative election and he resigned from his seat on the Southold Town Board. I’m beginning to have some serious second thoughts about voting for Al...
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Column: One life ends, but another begins anew
TROY GUSTAVSON PHOTO | 8-month-old George Hazard Boardman. This is one of those columns that’s pretty much going to write itself, I think. Sometimes I struggle to find a worthy subject (and sometimes I...
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Column: More tears for Newtown massacre
BARBARAELLEN KOCH FILE PHOTO | Joe and Roe Czaluda’s memorial they created in December to the Sandy Hook victims on their front lawn on Sunrise Avenue in Riverhead. Yes, it’s true: I’m a crybaby. I cry...
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Column: Wow, what a newsman we have
John Miller My mother, borrowing some folk wisdom from the Disney film “Bambi,” routinely told me when I was a lad that if I couldn’t say anything nice, then I shouldn’t say anything at all. Obviously,...
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Gustavson Column: Can’t convince me I had the worst job ever
An outfit named CareerCast recently released a list of the “worst jobs” for 2013. To earn a spot on the list, a job had to feature “low pay, high stress, challenging work requirements and a poor...
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Column: My own version of ‘Grumpy Old Men’
Yes, it’s true. Somehow I’ve become a Grumpy Old Man and my only excuse is the inexorable acceleration of time. This grumpiness might actually have started a few years ago, but I didn’t begin noticing...
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Column: A very unofficial history of Greenport
It was love at first sight. Well, actually, second sight, because I first set eyes on Greenport in the late ’60s, when I served as a summertime mate on a motorsailer that spent the off-season in one...
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Gustavson Column: Boating safety course leaves plenty to be desired
TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO | Boaters enjoying a day out on the Peconic Bay last summer. At the risk of receiving an “F” on my final exam, I am compelled to take this occasion to express my deep personal...
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Gustavson: I am now a licensed boater
BARBARAELLEN KOCH FILE PHOTO | A view of Peconic Bay from Mattituck Beach. Here’s some bad news for those of you hoping I would flunk my boating safety test: I passed. I — and all of my classmates, I...
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Column: Mr. Bishop, gift, don’t sell, Plum Island
CARRIE MILLER PHOTO | Congressman Tim Bishop announces his new bill to lift the congressional mandate to sell Plum Island. In a strong showing of bipartisanship and environmental activism, a coalition...
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Column: A discovery made over & over & over
BARBARAELLEN KOCH FILE PHOTO | More and more tourists are flocking to the North Fork each summer. So, the North Fork has been discovered … again! Every three or four years, it seems The Other Times...
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Mattituck grad takes women’s final at Bob Wall
GARRET MEADE PHOTO | Mattituck High School graduate Kate Freudenberg won the women’s singles final in the Bob Wall Memorial Tennis Tournament at Tasker Park in Peconic Saturday morning. Rain...
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Gustavson Column: Why I break bad on Sundays
AMC COURTESY PHOTO | The cast of Breaking Bad. Yes, I know this column is supposed to be local in its focus. And this week’s submission will be, too, insofar as our television set is located in Orient,...
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Column: Anyone for tennis? Not anymore
GARRET MEADE PHOTO | Mattituck High School graduate Kate Freudenberg won the women’s singles final in the Bob Wall Memorial Tennis Tournament at Tasker Park in Peconic earlier this month. With the U.S....
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Who knows where the time goes? — Judy Collins I’m still trying to figure out how it happened. One moment there was this tiny, beautiful, perfect baby in swaddling clothes. Then, in what now feels like...
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Column: Yes, deer, your time has come here
JIM COLLIGAN FILE PHOTO In recent times, the former Joan Giger Walker and I have been privileged to spend a significant chunk of time in the six-million-acre Adirondack Park in upstate New York. It’s a...
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Gustavson Column: Headed for two nations, under God?
The Other Times informs us this week that 11 counties in Colorado are mounting an effort to secede from the rest of the state because it’s too liberal. “They bristle at gun control laws and marijuana...
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Gustavson Column: Let there be goal posts in Greenport
SUFFOLK TIMES FILE PHOTO I dreamed this column. Or at least the top of it. And this is what I dreamed: TROY GUSTAVSON In connection with the recent success of the Greenport-Southold-Mattituck high...
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