This local guy is really trying to drain the swamp.
After Concerned Citizens of Montauk president L...
Author: Denis Hamill
Marvelous.
Last week I was among several journalists asked to say a few words in memory of the late...
You can’t save your son from dangerous roads
I am driven to distraction by my kid learning to driv...
A tall tale in time for Halloween
Ryan had been enjoying a year-long truce with The Tree.
He first ...
Keep the bad guys from laughing
Brett Kavanaugh is still laughing.
He is still laughing the same wa...
Is human trafficking a major local issue?
This heinous crime is serious enough locally that this Th...
A first-time voter makes his voice heard
It was Ryan’s son’s first time voting.
Rory was 18, a ...
You’ll never look at Route 27 the same way again
Peter Blauner sees dead women.
He sees four deca...
Father and son say goodbye to childhood.
As the summer ticked away, the father started stealing glan...
The Murphy who inspired Murphy’s Law — where if something can go wrong, it will — was a licens...
There are not many happy days in a cancer hospital.
This was going to be one of them.
But a year a...
If ever we needed to celebrate real heroes, it is right now.
So, come take a ride.
The 15th Annual...
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The press is not the enemy of the people.
The Independent is a community newspaper, its writers wor...
The three landscapers knocked on the wrong door.
Little did they know it would lead at least one of...
I had never seen my father with two legs.
As I sat in drop-dead U.S. Open traffic on Sunrise Highwa...
To be or not to be.
Four hundred odd years after William Shakespeare wrote those immortal lines, th...
With a clap of thunder, they were . . . gone.
Last Saturday I was at a high school graduation party...
Take a knee.
On Memorial Day Weekend, as President Trump and Congressman Pete King made idiots of t...
Ryan’s son was coming home from college.
And so, as Ryan mowed his green grass and the May sun sh...