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Codger: Blowing up
BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTO This year’s fireworks were the best in my memory, including the nasty little personal fireworks after the main event was over. My son, Sam, and I followed his kids, 7-year-old...
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Codger: You got questions? He’s got answers
REPORTER FILE PHOTO Question number four answered by Codger this week is: Why are Shelter Islanders making such a big fuss about helicopters? Now that we’re on the downside of the Silly Season, it’s...
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Codger Column: ShelHampton
COURTESY ILLUSTRATION | Will this place be re-dubbed ShelHampton? Who are we going to blame, now that most of the summer scapegoats are gone, for texting while jogging, cutting the ferry line,...
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Codger Column: The geezer guard
PHOTO: IM FREE IMAGES/STOCK | Airbnbs on the Island? Codger is on the case Codger hates to admit that he was shocked — shocked! — to read last month that the Island shelters scores of unlicensed...
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Lipsyte Column: A lesson in Island politics
Supervisor Jim Dougherty in a Shelter Island Reporter file photo. Codger was roused last week when just before the election our once and future supervisor railed lustily against the specter of outside...
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Codger column: Shelter Island, the movie
MAY ELLEN McGAYHEY PHOTO | Are these and other town officials getting ready for their close-ups? Jim Dougherty’s fifth coronation last week was buoyant, evoking the victorious optimism of his first, in...
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Column: Codger loves you too
BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTO Codger had been looking forward to Valentine’s Day as the sweet spot in a sour season. The national pastimes — elective politics and pro football — have left him reeling with their...
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Codger column: All’s fair
BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTO | Happy revelers at the Cheryl Hannabury Island Gift of Life party at the Ram’s Head Inn last week, which Codger attended. As usual, Codger did not score a skateboard or a pedicure...
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Codger: The Trump tie
REPORTER FILE PHOTO Supervisor Jim Dougherty. Along with many other Shelter Islanders, Codger is looking forward to Jim Dougherty’s State of the Town address this afternoon. Codger has always found his...
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Codger: The Alt. Tour
COURTESY ILLUSTRATION Codger is again cranking up to take his visitors on tours of the Island, especially those second-time visitors who have already been properly enchanted by Mashomack, Sylvester...
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Codger column: Catching up
AMBROSE CLANCY PHOTO | A view of Coecles Harbor from the St. Gabriel’s property. Codger weighs in on, among other things, the fate of the parcel and its chapel. As the airbus from Dublin nosed down...
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Codger column: Crime and punishment
JULIE LANE PHOTO Councilman Paul Shepherd, along with his colleagues, was in favor of Gary Baddeley perfroming community service for building code violations. Since late last year, Codger has avidly...
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Codger column: The last starfish
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO | Codger at home with Crone (Lois B. Morris) and Cur (Milo) at their West Neck Road home. On vacation this month in a summer resort beach town in Oregon, Codger was determined not...
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Codger column: Tone deaf or devious?
FILE PHOTO | Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) Now that town beaches are open again to old men and the dogs who own them, Codger and Cur are blissfully back on the sand. Standing on Wades Beach of an...
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Codger Column: Boo? Vote!
BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTORepublican candidate Amber Brach-Williams, left, is challenging Democratic Councilwoman Mary Dudley for a seat on the Town Board November 8. The next two holidays on Codger’s...
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Codger Column: Regroup, reset, resist
COURTESY ART Codger has always loved Thanksgiving, the most comforting of holidays, spiritual without being commercially religious, a celebration of the basics — family, friends and food. Codger, Crone...
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Codger column: Island lights
BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTO | Codger has mixed feelings about Christmas. He dislikes the marketing that turns grandchildren as greedy as Wall Street hustlers, but he likes much of the music and he loves the...
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Codger column: Marching orders
COURTESY PHOTO Codger and Crone on the march in New York City, January 21. Codger lost interest in marching during the last century, while in the Army. Yet there he was last Saturday, stepping along...
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Codger column: Chill the hot takes
BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTOThe Town Board recently held a public hearing on proposed short-term rental legislation. Readers weighed in this week on the issue. From left, Assistant Town Clerk Sharon Jacobs,...
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Codger: Think spring
CAROL GALLIGAN PHOTO Codger is concerned that the foul psychic weather settling over the country will spread east to our Island. It’s getting impossible to separate national and local climate...
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