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To the Editor:
Since the April 22 edition of the Suffolk Times appeared on Earth Day, it was rather surprising that, in the entire paper, nothing was mentioned about the significance of that day. (The Reporter, and other newspapers however, mentioned the day several times, including a Reporter editorial.) Even the Suffolk Times’ editorial focused on “A little drone on Mars . . .” and only included a general environmental comment about climate change.
The editorial highlighted how American scientific and technological accomplishments made that event on Mars, and other past global accomplishments, possible. While that was all well and good, on Earth Day, it was truly disappointing that such “American exceptionalism” was not related to the existential needs of Mother Earth, with the issue of climate change poised to supersede and overwhelm all other issues!
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Reverend Robert Griffin, pastor of Shelter Island Presbyterian Church, recently realized one of many truths that have emerged from the pandemic.
“COVID has tested our characters, but more importantly, it’s
revealed our characters,” Reverend Griffin said. “Sometimes in wonderful ways, sometimes in quite other ways. COVID has done that in our town, in our country and in the world.”
He, along with other faith leaders, is looking at an Easter and Passover markedly different from the spring of 2020, when COVID locked down in-person services for most of the significant holy days of the Christian and Jewish traditions.
Shelter Island Police Department officers on Oak Tree Lane in Silver Beach the afternoon of March 19, 2018. (Credit:STRINGER NEWS PHOTO)
At the beginning of the year, the Reporter is looking back on some significant stories we brought to our readers in 2020. He thought he was prepared for the worst. But what Father Charles McCarron discovered, checking on an elderly friend and colleague one midday two years ago, was a horrific and heartbreaking crime, something he said he could never have prepared for.
A crime that is still unsolved
“It’s been kind of like a PTSD event for me,” Father McCarron, the pastor of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, said last week.