03.17.2024 Letters Letters to the editor: Mr. Vail has got it all wrong CUTCHOGUE Mr. Vail has got it all wrong A response is warranted to Carl Vail’s assertions in his resignation letter as parks commissioner. The current parks commissioners were not...
03.10.2024 Opinion Guest opinion: The North Fork loses a great artisan “It was never about the money,” his son Preston told me. “It was always about doing the best job possible.” We were talking about a carpentry detail in the...
03.10.2024 Letters Letters to the editor: There’s room for affordable housing GREENPORT There’s room for affordable housing I was reading the Feb. 29 Suffolk Times and between the paper’s “Opinion” column and the “Letters” columns, affordable housing and overdevelopment were...
03.10.2024 Editorials Confronting the realities of ‘affordable’ housing Last week’s Greenport Village Board work session on the issue of affordable housing in the small municipality saw members engage in a critical and much-needed discussion about a very...
03.03.2024 Opinion Guest column: What future do we want? As I stood on the side of Main Road and gazed towards what was once nearly 7 acres of grasses, trees and wildlife, I was struck by how quickly...
03.03.2024 Letters Letters to the editor: Southold gives lip service to wanting affordable housing SOUTHOLD Thank you for writing this editorial I wanted to commend you for your excellent opinion article in the latest Suffolk Times (“Maybe the sky is falling — so...
03.03.2024 Editorials Editorial: The answer can’t always be ‘no’ Across the North Fork, as development projects are proposed and debated, the nearly universal response from most residents is an immediate, “No, that is not a good use of...
02.25.2024 Editorials Editorial: Maybe the sky is falling — so now what? A look at today’s real estate listings for single-family houses on the North Fork can take your breath away. The numbers suggest a new economic reality has taken hold...
02.25.2024 Letters Letters to the editor: IDA did not listen SOUTHOLD IDA did not listen The recent unanimous 7-0 vote by the Suffolk County Industrial Development Agency approving the $2.7 million tax relief package for The Enclaves, a $43.9...
02.19.2024 Editorials Editorial: Land — and Native burial sites — should be preserved There was considerable talk about the region’s critical environmental issues at last week’s roundtable convened by state Sen. Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk) and attended by other key officials and...