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Column: Quite a ride over 10 years for this newsman
TIM KELLY FILE PHOTO | Grant Parpan (center) moderating last month’s legislative debate at Martha Clara Vineyards. Ten years ago this month, I was managing a video store in a Los Angeles suburb, still...
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Column: No, sir, you are a resident of Brooklyn
COURTESY PHOTO | John McManmon outside his family’s home in Aquebogue. The residency requirement to run for New York State Assembly is defined very briefly on the NYS Board of Elections website. In...
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Parpan Column: Nervous ramblings from a father-to-be
My eyes lit up when the doctor gave us a canvas bag full of goodies at the end of our first appointment. Surely, somewhere beneath all the samples of vitamins and other baby products would be the book...
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Parpan Column: Best of times, worst of times in Riverhead
I often tell people there’s no greater place to cover news than in Riverhead. This town has it all: diversity, a downtown in flux, agriculture, silly politics, great local sports and loyal residents...
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Column: Will the real Tony Coates please stand up?
FILE PHOTO | Anthony Coates last year, announcing his intentions to run for Town Council. I like a lot of what Anthony Coates is saying in his campaign for Riverhead Town Board. A bright guy with a...
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Parpan Column: So that’s where baby caps come from
Jen Becker making hats for newborns and preemies at her home in Southold this week. At 4 a.m. the morning after my son was born, a nurse ducked into the room as my wife and I were falling asleep and...
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Parpan column: Howabout these for Facebook reaction buttons?
My initial reaction to the news a few weeks back that Facebook had added six new reaction buttons to serve as alternatives to “liking” posts was that it was about damn time. In the days that followed,...
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Parpan Column: Notes from a historic election night
Shortly before my head hit the pillow at 2 a.m. Wednesday, I scanned Facebook to see how my friends were reacting to the news that Donald Trump would likely be the next president of the United States....
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Column: My kid wants just one thing — every toy
My son is spoiled. I talked a big game before he was born. “Any kid of mine better get used to hearing the word no,” I’d say. “I’m going to limit the TV, the toys and the sweets.” Then my wife gave...
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Parpan Column: More rambling from a very sick man
After two days of non-stop politics I was extra fired up to watch the AFC and NFC championship games Sunday. But a little before the first game started, I had a visitor. It was that same nasty guy...
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Parpan Column: Please forgive me, for I’m in Florida
As you read this, I want you to picture me by the pool, sunglasses (and, of course, shirt) on, soaking up the sun in Florida. OK, now for those of you still reading — the hardcore readers who weren’t...
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Column: Announced EPCAL deal raises questions
Since plans were first announced nearly two years ago that Luminati Aerospace would come to the Enterprise Park at Calverton, news about the company has often led to hyperbole. Perhaps the biggest...
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Column: Things sure have changed — for the better
I was 16 years old the first time I consumed alcohol in the presence of an adult. Around that same time, I began asking strangers outside the King Kullen in Wading River to purchase beer for me. I...
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Column: What? The worrying doesn’t stop?
Even to this day, with kids, a wife and a home of my own, every single phone call with my father ends with the same parting words: “Be careful driving.” I could call my dad today and tell him I’ve...
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Acclaimed journalist Steve Wick joins Times Review staff
Veteran Long Island journalist Steve Wick has joined the staff of Times Review Media Group as executive editor. Steve, who spent nearly the past four decades as a reporter and editor at Newsday,...
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Column: Who is your 2017 Person of the Year?
It’s been 30 years since Times Review Media Group honored its first people of the year. Published only in The Suffolk Times that first go-round, the list of honorees was top ped by overall Person of...
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Parpan column: Howabout these for Facebook reaction buttons?
My initial reaction to the news a few weeks back that Facebook had added six new reaction buttons to serve as alternatives to “liking” posts was that it was about damn time. In the days that followed,...
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Parpan Column: Notes from a historic election night
Shortly before my head hit the pillow at 2 a.m. Wednesday, I scanned Facebook to see how my friends were reacting to the news that Donald Trump would likely be the next president of the United States....
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Column: My kid wants just one thing — every toy
My son is spoiled. I talked a big game before he was born. “Any kid of mine better get used to hearing the word no,” I’d say. “I’m going to limit the TV, the toys and the sweets.” Then my wife gave...
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Parpan Column: More rambling from a very sick man
After two days of non-stop politics I was extra fired up to watch the AFC and NFC championship games Sunday. But a little before the first game started, I had a visitor. It was that same nasty guy...
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