Peter Boody

About

Part-time news editor and reporter for The Sag Harbor Express, May 2018 to Sept. 2019. Currently regular freelance contributor; also contributed for several years prior to 2018. North Haven Village Trustee, appointed July, 2022. Elected to two-year term, June, 2023, uncontested; re-elected June, 2025, in contested race (3 candidates for 2 seats). Between 1973 and 1999, reporter for The Southampton Press, editor of the Hampton Chronicle-News (now the Press western edition); managing editor for 2 years and editor for 16 years of The Southampton Press. Founding editor of the East Hampton Press, 2007-2009. Eight years as editor of the Shelter Island Reporter during different stints between 2000-2012. Also briefly executive editor of Times Review Newspaper: left job to return to Reporter as editor. Numerous awards for work at Press and Reporter from the New York Press Association over the years. Reporter and Press both won "best editorial section," an award for all circulation categories, during my stints. Also edited the Suffolk Times in Greenport briefly after graduating from Columbia Journalism School (1979); left to go to Flying Magazine same year. Regular contributor to the New York Times (Long Island section) 2000-2006 until section was discontinued. Past contributor to Flying magazine and Aviation Consumer. Staff editor/writer for Flying magazine, 1 Park Avenue, NY (1979-1981); wrote aviation features, technique pieces and news. Covered national aviation issues including the controller strike of 1981 and edited the daily newspapers published by the magazine at the Experimental Aircraft Association annual convention in Oshkosh 1980 and 1981 and the last Reading (PA) Air Show in 1979. Left Flying to return to SH Press as managing editor. Freelance contributor to several magazines, including Flying, Bicycling, Air&Space, Travel & Leisure, AOPA Pilot. Author of two novels on Amazon ("Thomas Jefferson, Rachel & Me," "The Consequences of Longing") plus 2 others never published: "Poontown," 1981, which Gloria Jones read and proposed to Doubleday; "The Sinking of the Moon," 1969 (or, really, How I Spent My Summer Vacation.) Certified flight instructor (CFI, CFII) since 2001. Associated with Sound Flight Services at KHTO for more than 20 years until Sound gave up flight school operations. Licensed pilot since 1971; soloed at Teterboro Airport age 16 in 1967. Commercial and instrument ratings earned while working for Flying. CFI/II earned between jobs in 2001 at American Flyers KPMP.