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10.31.2020 Columns

Guest Column: We can’t vote yet, so please don’t let your chance slip by

An urgent request from the sixth- and seventh-graders of the Peconic Community School: We need you to vote. We can’t, but you CAN! Your vote can change our country....

10.04.2020 Columns

Guest Column: A breakdown of the social order

My father was a lifelong Republican and my mother a lifelong Democrat. Yet in their 50-plus-year marriage, there was never a discussion, heated or otherwise, on candidates or political...

09.25.2020 Columns

Guest Column: When it comes to voting, the devil is in the details

By now, many of us feel like the prisoner in Frank R. Stockton’s 1882 tale, “The Lady or the Tiger?” It’s about an innocent hostage, barbarically tossed into the...

09.19.2020 Columns

Guest Column: Eminent domain decision sets a dangerous precedent

How long does a parcel of land need to be considered undesirable for commercial development for elected officials to act? For Southold Town, that number is right around 14...

09.17.2020 Columns

Guest Column: Comprehensive plan fails to address critical public health issue

After years of effort, the Town of Southold has a final draft of its Comprehensive Plan. This deals with a multiplicity of important and complex problems facing the town....

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09.11.2020 Columns

Column: Our family’s little heart warrior

I’ll always cherish the moment I read my daughter her first book. I held her in my arms, careful not to disturb the array of wires connected to her...

08.28.2020 Columns

Southold residents: Please stop removing political signs

Editor’s Note: The following is a joint statement from Supervisor Scott Russell and Legislator Al Krupski regarding the recent removal and destruction of political signs. The removal of political...

08.15.2020 Columns

Column: Working with words requires write stuff

The longer you do it, the better you get — and no matter how old you are, you can always get better. Never will you hit a ceiling where...

08.08.2020 Columns

Guest Column: Save this last green corner in Mattituck

The Mattituck-Laurel Civic Association, as a rule, forgoes public endorsements, working instead to be a channel of information to the broad community. MLCA has been, and remains, neutral concerning...

08.01.2020 Columns

Equal Time: Board members should lead by example

Let me understand this. According to Councilwoman Sarah Nappa, the Town Board holding public meetings in a public building while utilizing Zoom and broadcasting live on the town’s website...

07.23.2020 Columns

Equal Time: What gives with the Southold Town Board?

Lack of transparency, no accountability and exclusion continues on the Southold Town Board. Although we have finally joined the 21st century and have our meetings via Zoom, several of...

07.19.2020 Columns

Column: In 1764, Native Americans asked for help that never came

In 1764 something happened in Southold that received almost no attention in the narrative put forward by early town historians. Those historians wanted to celebrate the “founding families,” to...

07.10.2020 Columns

Guest Column: The excuses don’t add up on bounties

It has been reported that Russia paid bounties to the Taliban for the killing of American and coalition servicemen and women. Some have argued that the intelligence is not...

07.09.2020 Columns

Equal Time: Removing the sign from the burial site was a grave mistake

“Like a chain link fence just below the surface of the ground, all the families in Orient are connected.” George Ritchie Latham Jr. We Orienters are not only all...

07.05.2020 Columns

Column: The names that represent a story we can’t tell

Across the country and across Long Island, America’s past is being examined, thought about in a very different light, criticized and, in some cases, kicked to the curb. Symbols...

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