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Opinion
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Column: We can’t ignore kids and concussions
A few weeks ago, my dad apologized for all the smoking he did in the house back when I was a kid. “We just didn’t realize,” he said as we watched the little girl on the anti-smoking commercial cough into a room thick with secondhand smoke. I’ve heard that refrain many times...
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Equal Time: A soccer program for all local kids
Have you been to the Aldrich Lane soccer fields recently, say between 3 and 4 p.m.? You may have seen our Red Bull trainer, Chris Colley, surrounded by a huge pile of 5-year-olds, not quite learning the game of soccer. Chris is on his knees — at 6-3 he’s still miles...
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Editorial: Spinning our wheels over school budgets, candidates
And now we have one more reason why annual school budget votes are about as relevant and useful as an instruction booklet on programming a VCR. The same is true, unfortunately, for school board elections. Perhaps it was a wise move, perhaps not, but in either case the state’s 2 percent property...
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Letters: Differing views on Oysterponds School District
GREENPORT The facts on choice This is in regard to the “Equal Time” written by Mary and Tom Morgan. Voters in the Oysterponds School District cannot make an educated decision when they are given wrong information. First and foremost, let’s talk about the Seneca Falls rate. The Greenport School District was willing to...
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Guest Spot: 4 deadly sins of the Riverhead Town Board, Part II
This is part two of a two-part opinion piece. The first part ran last Saturday online and in the May 3 News-Review newspaper. The reputation of a town is determined by its leaders’ behavior. Last week, we reviewed pretense and gall. POOR JUDGEMENT We now know that the “Village” applicant awarded special...
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Column: Pass the budget, don’t hurt the kids
Suffolk Times editor Tim Kelly jokingly refers to it as “The People’s Republic of Oysterponds.” His point, I think, is that the residents of Orient, in particular, and East Marion, almost as often, have their own unique way of thinking and of doing things — whether it relates to issues...
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Equal Time: Oysterponds is simply giving a choice
As the parents of two middle school students in the Oysterponds district who attend Greenport — not parents of a teacher employed by Greenport School — we have a different perspective from that of Linda Goldsmith. As taxpayers whose money pays tuition to the receiving school, we want the best product...
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Editorial: Cutting water quality jobs doesn’t make sense
Long Island is known for cancer clusters, which many scientists are forced to chalk up to coincidence, mainly because it’s proven impossible to explain how so many people here are getting the same types of cancers, and at the same time. From cellphones to microwaves to pesticides, food coloring, diet and...
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Letters: Soccer parents explain decision to leave Mattituck Club
SOUTHOLD Truly a shame As parents of soccer players we are truly sad that 140 players and their 13 coaches had to make the decision to leave the Mattituck Soccer Club. Some of these teams have played together for years, and in order to avoid team and coach restructuring with the merge, we...
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Guest Column: 4 deadly sins of Riverhead’s Town Board
This is part one of a two-part opinion piece. The next will be published in the May 3 News-Review. The recent special permits vote for the Village at Jamesport project afforded a good opportunity to view our Town Board members in action. Each of four principal problems that plague this administration...
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Editorial: Mourning two men whose lives touched many
Motor vehicle accidents are an all-too-common occurrence hereabouts and in that regard we’re not much different from many other communities. Some of those crashes take lives and, sadly, that is not unique to us either. So it might be easy to dismiss the death of a Riverhead man Monday, three weeks...
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Letters: Look to Europe to see how cars, bikes can coexist
RIVERHEAD Troy is right on bikes I liked Troy Gustavson’s ideas on a bikeway. I’ve biked Europe, where cars and bikes must follow the same road rules. I was biking in Austria when a biker turned his head and indicated with a hand signal that he was turning left. The cars stayed back...
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Sports Desk: Philosophies, personalities play into Mattituck soccer dispute
I have to admit, part of me cringed when I first heard that there was a youth soccer battle going on in Mattituck. Youth sports, you see, can get nasty sometimes. Real nasty. Sports in general provokes a great deal of passion. But when you include youngsters in the mix, that...
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Equal Time: There’s no reason to choose Mattituck
My daughter teaches at Greenport High School, and I am a 22-year member of the Oysterponds Board of Education. These facts don’t disqualify me from writing this as a private citizen with concerns regarding the education of students in the Oysterponds district. During my tenure on the board, the issue of...
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Guest column: What I want Jamesport Village to be
This guest column is written by Julius Klein. He is a Long Island developer and Aquebogue resident. In a recent letter, Nancy Gilbert and Richard Wines called for “civil discourse” with respect to Jamesport Village, the community I have proposed for our hamlet. Change can set off deep emotions. Strong supporters...
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Two-wheelers of the world, unite!
This newspaper has a long-standing opinion page feature called “Equal Time” (at least that’s what I call it), which gives outside contributors an opportunity to respond at length to something that’s appeared on our editorial or opinion pages. Today I beg your indulgence in stretching that concept a bit by...
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Editorial: Time to get tough on tossing lit cigarettes
Every smoker seems to do it. And why not? They don’t want their cars to smell that much worse by trashing cigars or cigarette butts in their on-board ashtrays, so tossing butts out the window seems like a perfect solution. It’s not trash if it’s biodegradable, right? And the cops...
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Letters: Community must emphasize importance of containing school budget
CUTCHOGUE Where were you? We owe Curt Koch a debt of gratitude for being a lone audience spokesperson for vigilance in the budget process at the recent Mattituck school board meeting. While the board and administration do work hard to keep costs in line, there is a need for the community to continually...
