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Codger column: Sort of right, totally wrong?
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO | Codger at home with Crone (Lois B. Morris) and Cur (Milo) 0n West Neck Road. After that last Rant-A-Palooza at the school auditorium, Codger began to rethink the short-term rental...
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Codger Column: Joking around
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO | Codger at home with Crone (a ka a Lois B. Morris) and Cur (Milo) at their West Neck Road home. Codger usually emerges in high spirits from the tunnel of winter and early spring,...
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Codger column: Summer dreams
BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTO Jules Feiffer (left) prior to a Q&A with Codger at the Shelter Island Public Library’s annual Book and Author Luncheon June 10 at The Pridwin. With a flailing government in...
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Column: Ask codger
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO | Codger at home with Crone (aka a Lois B. Morris) and Cur (Milo) at their West Neck Road home. In celebration of his second anniversary at this corner, Codger is available for...
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Codger column: The Tick!
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO | Codger at home with Crone (aka Lois B. Morris) and Cur (Milo) at their West Neck Road home. In these final, frantic days of summer, Codger is looking forward to the real life that...
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Codger column: Comments on a Cocker Sapien
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO | Codger at home with Crone (a ka a Lois B. Morris) and Cur (Milo) at their West Neck Road home. Cur is ailing. The canine cardiologist has confirmed the vet’s diagnoses of...
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Column: Codger hits the Island’s roads
COURTESY ILLUSTRATION Cruising the Island at 30 miles an hour was Police Chief Jim Read’s idea, not Codger’s. At a recent Town Board meeting, after the chief presented the results of 14 years of...
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Codger column: After Jim
REPORTER FILE PHOTOSupervisor Jim Dougherty Codger first met Jim Dougherty in the big city a quarter-century ago. Codger was writing a column for a different newspaper and Dougherty, a corporate CEO,...
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Codger Column: A Christmas shortlist
BEVERLEA WALZ PHOTOThe public meeting room of Town Hall. A cheery berth for Gary Gerth After the last several divisive years on the Island, as elsewhere, Codger wishes the newly-elected supervisor good...
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Column: Codger is older
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO A cake for Codger. This is a big week for birthdays, including Martin Luther King Jr., Benjamin Franklin, Al Capone, Muhammad Ali, Edgar Allan Poe, Janis Joplin and last and...
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Codger column: Cur is gone
CHARITY ROBEY PHOTO | Codger at home with Crone (a ka a Lois B. Morris) and Cur (Milo) at their West Neck Road home. Cur slipped away on a Saturday morning three weeks ago. Codger and Crone were with...
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Codger Column: Going after Lee Z.
Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) Because he thinks he has been poorly represented in Congress and the actions of the federal government have enormous impact on the future of the Island, Codger made...
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Codger’s excellent weekend
Codger was reading a new novel borrowed from our wonderful library when he was struck by a passage set on Shelter Island. A famous 70-year-old novelist with serious health issues is entertaining his...
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Codger column: Godspeed
REPORTER FILE PHOTO Reverend Stephen Fearing Codger is not religious, but since the era of Pastor Bill he has regarded the Presbyterian Church as a moral center of the Island, a house of good works....
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Codger column: Walking the walk
JULIE LANE PHOTO Codger triumphant! Codger woke early on Saturday, hoping for a bomb cyclone. He’d settle for a small snowstorm. But it was mid-June and the sky was blue. It was going to be a lovely...
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Codger Column: Morning blitz
COURTESY PHOTO Congressman Lee Zeldin. Codger is not fond of summer road trips, especially if they entail Forking around, North or South, but an invitation to a Lee Zeldin “blitz rally” was just too...
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Codger’s column: A new pal
LOIS B. MORRIS PHOTO Codger’s and Crone’s new housemate. The call, expected and dreaded, came while Codger and Crone were on vacation in Oregon this month. One of Crone’s oldest friends, Ellen...
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Codger column: Stop the bleeding
JULIE LANE PHOTO Robert Lipsyte Codger was in a room of the Shelter Island school stuffing gauze into a gaping wound, hoping to staunch the gush of blood before the victim’s life ran out. Was this...
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Codger’s column: Thanks, anyway
Courtesy art Codger loves Thanksgiving, his favorite holiday, a festival of food, fun, family and friends. Two years ago at this time, in this very place, he went on record about how the restorative...
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Column: Codger is not giving in
JULIE LANE PHOTO Codger triumphant after the Shelter Island 5K. Cranking up for the approach of Christmas and the New Year, which sometimes can seem like an onrushing caravan of desperate cheer, Codger...
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