08.24.2025 Editorials Editorial: Four-year terms for county legislators Two-year terms? Four-year terms? Term limits? No term limits? Clearly, various legislative bodies have reached different conclusions about what works best. Suffolk County legislators are currently elected for two-year...
08.24.2025 Letters Letters to the Editor: Plaudits for Paolo Cutchogue Plaudits for Paolo Ten years ago, Paolo Bartolani started the Rites of Spring Music Festival. Over these years, he brought world-class musicians to historic North Fork sites, such...
08.17.2025 Guest Spot Guest Spot: Anna Pozamantir Will AI hire us? You’re a young professional and you’re looking for a job. Who do you think will be across the table when you sit down for a...
08.17.2025 Letters Letters to the Editor: Keep the Clean Pass Orient Keep the Clean Pass Did you get that letter about the Clean Vehicle Pass program ending? Unless Congress acts, it’ll be gone after Sept. 30, 2025. This has...
08.15.2025 Editorials Editorial: What the record will show “Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.” So said Abraham Lincoln, and the sad truth is that we often forget it until forced to confront it. History, as manifested by...
08.10.2025 Editorials Editorial: Getting involved A recent report by a Suffolk County task force on “coastal resilience” warned, yet again, that our precious land resources are in danger from rising tides. It estimated that...
08.10.2025 Letters Letters to the Editor: Thank you Southold Thank you On Monday, Aug. 4, I pulled into the IGA after taking my Boston terrier puppy for a long walk. I was going to run into the...
08.08.2025 Reporter's Notebook Reporter’s Notebook: Spotting wonder on the trail I’m a slow hiker. Frequently I lag behind my family until they are brightly colored dots far up the trail. Sometimes it’s so bad that I lose sight of...
08.03.2025 Editorials Editorial: Midsummer dreaming The Dog Days of Summer descended on us July 3 and will last the Biblical length of 40 days, or until Aug. 11. Why Dog Days? Some have said...
08.03.2025 Letters Letters to the Editor: Ideas for the village laundromat Greenport Ideas for the village laundromat First, actively hire and retain three attendants who will be paid $25 or more an hour. Second, open on time with an attendant...