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Barbara J. Spinelli, author of “The Letters,” held a book signing in the Freeport Memorial Library on Oct. 17.

Local author’s memoir awakens decades-long grief and love

Before Barbara Spinelli, the career counselor at the Freeport Memorial Library, wrote “The Letters,” her grief over losing her young husband in the Vietnam War five decades before remained deeply private. Now people from all over who have read “The Letters” are texting her and calling her to tell about their own grief. They are reaching for the healing that she found when she courageously faced the pain that she had shut into a hard-shell suitcase half a century before. more

By Reine Bethany | 10/22/21

In minority communities, vaccine isn’t so simple

To the Editor:I write to express my concern about Covid-19 vaccine access in communities of color on Long Island. As the coronavirus crisis lingers, the combination of two age-old realities — … more

4/3/21

‘So much for trying to do the right thing’

Q. We were told to file a permit to rent our house next door, which an inspector came and looked at and said it was a “simple” permit. more

By Monte Leeper | 12/3/20

Deliver the letter. The sooner, the better.

Meet at the mailbox, we told our kids when they walked up the block to wait for the school bus. Those were the elementary school years when the yellow bus hauled them off to . . . more

By Randi Kreiss | 9/11/20

Dear Randi: A peek inside my mailbox

I get plenty of letters, but only a few of them get published, so I thought you’d like to see some samples of the mail I get day in and day out from supporters and critics, the thoughtful, the loonies and the insightful. more

1/10/20

Shannon Welcome, 17, will join the Central Connecticut State College in New Britain, Conn. swim team.

Early college decisions announced by athletes

Five Freeport High School seniors signed their national letters of intent earlier this month to continue playing sports in college. A National Letter of Intent is a letter a student athlete submits … more

By Nadya Nataly | 1/31/19

Walt Whitman, I celebrate thee!

My stomach was churning furiously. The Press Club of Long Island’s first-ever poetry reading on Aug. 23 was to begin in a half-hour at the Huntington Station birthplace of the unparalleled poet and journalist Walt Whitman. Would anyone show? I wondered. more

9/14/18

U.S. letter carriers gearing up for Stamp Out Hunger campaign May 13

Island Harvest Food Bank is teaming up with the National Association of Letter Carriers and the United States Postal Service for the 25th annual Stamp Out Hunger campaign on Saturday, May 13. In … more

4/28/17

My mailbox: the good, the bad and the ugly

My third-grade teacher, Mrs. Heller, told me that I needed to grow an “elephant skin.” She advised toughening up if I wanted to survive elementary school trash talk. more

3/31/17

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