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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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Column: Codger lives!
COURTESY PHOTO As a great fan of fun science, Codger has been deeply absorbed this entire year by the news that Shelter Islanders will, on average, live to be 93, longer than most anyone except those...
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Column: Codger lives!
COURTESY PHOTO As a great fan of fun science, Codger has been deeply absorbed this entire year by the news that Shelter Islanders will, on average, live to be 93, longer than most anyone except those...
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Codger column: A trip to Malady
COURTESY IMAGE The neurologist recited Codger’s main symptoms: “Your hands are clumsy and you walk like Frankenstein.” “Obviously,” said Codger, who had already reviewed his MRI with Dr. Google, “I...
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Column: Codger’s back
REPORTER FILE PHOTO Codger and Crone. The getaway was sweet, Crone at the wheel, Codger riding shotgun, Cur II supposedly at lookout in the back but already asleep. The New York Presbyterian eastside...
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Codger’s Column: The E-word
COURTESY PHOTO Should Shelter Island ever sink into the Sound, imagines Codger, it would be under the unimaginable weight of thousands of short-term rental (STR) attic rooms, basement apartments,...
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Codger’s column: Game of homes
Courtesy image If it wasn’t happening right here and now, thinks Codger, this short-term rental (STR) controversy, including the public hearing two weeks ago and the snitty responses ever since, might...
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Codger’s column: Doing and undoing
Courtesy Photo Now that Shelter Island has an international reputation as “an exclusive Hamptons island” with “extremely picky locals,” Codger thinks it’s time to seize the narrative before Fox does...
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Codger’s Column: Facing traffic
Courtesy Image Codger and Cur II were walking along West Neck Road the other day when they came face to face with a young woman powering toward them. Cur II took an excessive interest in her, which she...
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Codger’s Column: Noises off
RICHARD LOMUSCIO PHOTO The powerhouse task force. From left, Councilman Jim Colligan (seated), Detective Sergeant Jack Thilberg, Councilman Albert Dickson, Codger and Councilman Paul Shepherd. On a...
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Codger: On the waterfront
COURTESY PHOTO While pre-habbing for a hip replacement in two weeks, Codger has been reading a book so scary in its planetary prognosis that he has hardly had time to think about his own moldy bones....
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Codger’s Column: Perfect Island
Courtesy Photo Of all Town Councilman Paul Shepherd’s gnomic sayings, Codger’s favorite is this: “When people describe the Shelter Island that should be, it is usually the Shelter Island they saw when...
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Codger gives thanks
REPORTER FILE PHOTO As everyone knows, Codger loves Thanksgiving, his favorite holiday, a festival of family, food and the lunatic fun of the Friends of the Library’s Turkey Plunge, an annual rite for...
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If it wasn’t happening right here and now, thinks Codger, this short-term rental (STR) controversy, including the public hearing two weeks ago and the snitty responses ever since, might be viewed as...
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