On Robert Makofsky's blog, "There's No Place Like Home," Jolie Powell agreed that it's great to travel but coming home to Port Jefferson is the best part. "I couldn't agree with you more, Robert, there is no place like home," she wrote "I visited Panama City this past Christmas, and as much as I love to travel, the best part of all my trips is coming home. Port Jefferson....WE HAVE IT ALL!"

After our article on duck hunting, "Warm Weather Makes For Bad Duck Hunting in Mt. Sinai," Shawn Clap wasn't impressed. "So Ducks Unlimited conserves waterfowl habitats so that they can kill waterfowl?" he wrote. "That makes sense."

Rosario Romano reflected on some of the original plans for the open space near the Highlands condominium complex in the commenst for the article, "Movement Forming to Preserve Open Land Near Highlands." She wrote that she remembers the parcel being given to the village to ease the approval of the Highlands and discussions about the use of the land centered on building a swimming pool or perhaps an arts center.

"Leaving it as open undeveloped land was never a topic at that time," Romano wrote. "Besides with all the complaints of loitering around that area wouldn't a development of this area help limit this problem?"

On a blog post that mourned the recent passing of a homeless person who used to hang around Upper Port Jefferson, Cynthia Lindner thanked the blogger for "extending respect and kindness to this fellow human being."

"For many people it is easy to look at a homeless person and see an 'addict,' someone who is 'lazy,' or 'crazy' and just loose site about their humanity," Linder wrote. "But, these people are someone's family, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, and brothers."

Sandra Swenk helped us when we incorrectly dated a photo about four decades to early. We said the historical photo in this article was from 1924. Whoops! We were just a tad off.

"This photo was probably from the early 1960's," Swenk wrote. "Notice the liquor store on Main St. and the former Oldsmobile business, now the Gap, beyond the parking area. How that area has changed!"