As I am sure readers know, the Island is a special place when adversity and difficult news hits home, the people on the Island show up.

Three bad storms, back-to-back. Severe erosion. Major flooding. It’s time to start talking about managed retreat from the coast.

Many people under the age of 50 have never heard of him, yet in the 1930s and ‘40s, Jimmy Cagney was one of Hollywood’s biggest box office stars.

The first notice I received was from the Registry of Motor Vehicles announcing I had a birthday coming up, and was required to renew my driver’s license.

A swan, on Old Mill Pond, is hurting, or so it seems to me.

While eyeing the cold winter water from several stories up on an Island ferry, my thoughts wandered as I looked out on the frigid expanse of the Sound.