Women all over Long Island are busting through the doors of what has traditionally been a male, closed club: The barber shop. Armed with straight razors, edgers, clippers, beard trimmers and scissors, ...

But Connie Wright is so much more. For one, the 62-year-old has long been the dean of women barbers in the Yakima Valley, carving a path as the only female barber here when she began cutting hair in ...