Do you know the number one most successful parenting strategy to prevent kids from abusing drugs and alcohol?

More than eight hours a day. That is the average amount of time children in the U.S. spend on screens. How is it even possible?

Our children are growing up in the “screen generation.” Most are entertaining themselves on some type of device – TV, phone, computer, tablet, or game console – more than we would like, and sometimes even several of these screens simultaneously.

If you struggle to roust your teen or pre-teen from bed to get to school on time, you’re not alone—and it’s not their fault.

Thank you for your service.

The phrase is spoken frequently these days, and it conveys an authentic sentiment when it comes from ordinary folks expressing gratitude to those who have endured the extraordinary burdens of military service on behalf of their country. This was never clearer than when Sag Harbor and Shelter Island and our neighboring communities came out by the thousands to honor two local boys who gave their lives in combat, and to bring whatever comfort we could to their grieving families.

To the editor: I write this letter with rain falling outside, and rain on my mind, as it has sometimes been since our home was flooded by an unprecedented rainfall in 2005. That flooding ultimately prompted us to elevate our house to the FEMA-recommended level, a move that several of our neighbors have also made, [...]

by Bill Jones Patrolman’s Benevolent Associations (PBA’s) are driving Long Island governments to bankruptcy in the same manner as the United Auto Workers’ union was a driving (pun intended) force in the bankruptcy of the auto industry. Do I have your attention? Local governments are crying “uncle” for a number of significant reasons, but the [...]

By Richard Gambino All warm-blooded animals, and not just deer, carry ticks infected with Lyme disease. In fact, there are many studies confirming this. Here are just four — these, and all other reports cited in this article are accessible on the Internet, and I urge everyone to please read them:   1): A study [...]

What if Dorothy had a cat? Instead of a…Toto? Now, before all you brindle Cairn fans get your short, wiry coats twisted up into a course scruff — I’ve nothing against your Terriers. Per se. After a recent rescreening of the 70th Anniversary Blu-ray Disc of The Wizard of Oz, it’s simply a question I [...]

For almost thirty years, I’ve watched Sag Harbor salute Pierson’s graduating class of seniors, although always as a passive bystander, a member of our community standing off to the sides as friends and neighbors send their children off into the world. Now, as time once again catches me, I’m a spectator no more. Our son, [...]

By Richard Demato Your intent, efforts, and reach to the community and subsequent wide response to “The Future of Sag Harbor,” was highly comprehensive and informative. It offered  both an analytical and emotional assimilation of data that will initiate and empower creative thought on the subject for some time to come. A successful business is [...]