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Editorial: Southold setting the standard in education
Teaching to the test is a classroom management practice that many consider unethical because it prevents students from fully understanding the subject matter at hand. It also threatens to zap all the fun out of learning, resulting in more students underperforming in school and increasing drop-out rates — just the...
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Featured Letter: The Suffolk Times owes Mattituck an apology
To the Editor: I rarely, if ever, weigh in publicly on these debates, but this one deserves a swift reply. The Suffolk Times could not be further from the truth on this. (Read our editorial here.) First, in response to the request the evening of the election, I, as President of the Board...
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GOP taps New Suffolk attorney for Assembly race; controversy over Riverhead Dems’ choice
More than two months after Dan Losquadro left office to run the Brookhaven Town Highway Department, local Republicans have finally identified their choice to replace him in the New York State Assembly. Anthony Palumbo, 42, an attorney from New Suffolk, has secured the GOP nomination, according to Suffolk County Republican chairman...
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Southold can’t recover from Port Jefferson’s big inning
SUFFOLK COUNTY CLASS C TOURNAMENT | ROYALS 10, FIRST SETTLERS 3 It was a fairly even high school baseball game — except for that one devastating inning. Third-seeded Port Jefferson erupted for eight runs in the third inning, paving the way for a 10-3 victory that knocked No. 2 Southold out of...
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Town closing in on leash law compromise
Comprise seemed hard to come by regarding Southold Town’s efforts to update its dog leash law, but officials took another stab at it during Thursday’s code committee meeting. This time they may have succeeded. After a 20-minute discussion, officials suggested easing the law that currently prohibits dogs on town-owned beaches at all...
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Update: Mattituck Schools releases results of write-in election
UPDATE: 2:38 P.M. Mattituck-Cutchogue school officials released the full results of Tuesday’s write-in race for the remaining open seat on the district's Board of Education just before noon Thursday. As previously reported, former school board member Jeff Smith was the clear front-runner with 79 votes, which turns out to be more than double that of...
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Plan would see trees cut for grass in Calverton
Trees or grass? That’s a question Riverhead Town officials will have to wrestle with at the Enterprise Park at Calverton, according to Supervisor Sean Walter. The state Department of Environmental Conservation “potentially wants us to take back some of the early succession forest at EPCAL to create grasslands,” Mr. Walter told the...
