10.26.2025 Editorials Editorial: Finish the Greenport rotary before someone gets hurt How many jurisdictions does it take to screw up a traffic circle? Apparently at least two on the North Fork. The state and county have had more than a...
10.19.2025 Editorials Editorial: When it mattered most, the North Fork showed up The 911 call came in at 4:30 a.m. Monday. A nor’easter was ripping across the North Fork with winds gusting to 60 miles an hour and downed trees and...
10.12.2025 Editorials Editorial: The North Fork housing problem “So when are you moving here?” I’ve been asked that question nearly every day since taking this job. There’s no easy answer. I live in Nassau County. My commute...
10.05.2025 Editorials Editorial: Beauty of the 10th month October is the beautiful one at the party, turning heads, glamorous and dazzling. Seated between whimsical, not-quite-sure-of itself September (summer still? Or suddenly fall?) and dour November, October swans...
09.28.2025 Editorials Editorial: My goal is to engage, enlighten and entertain I killed a chipmunk last week. Let me back up. On the first day of starting this new job, the latch on the storm door to our house broke,...
09.21.2025 Featured Story Editorial: Making a plan Every election in America is critical, whether at the national, state or local level. Voting is the engine that drives the democratic process. The oft-repeated expression “all politics is...
09.07.2025 Editorials Editorial: No time for silence We increasingly hear people saying that they are so fed up with the current political situation, on every level of government, that they’re opting out, not having an opinion...
08.31.2025 Editorials Editorial: Starting anew Maybe it’s something in the air — it definitely was this week when it was cool and sunny — or maybe it’s in the way kids seem to be...
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...
08.15.2025 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...
08.03.2025 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...
07.27.2025 Editorials Editorial: When leaders lead, there’s cause for applause “Government isn’t the solution to the problem, government is the problem.” So said President Ronald Reagan, a man who could always break serious issues down to a pithy phrase that resonated...
07.20.2025 Editorials Editorial: A note from our publisher The beginnings of the Times Review Media Group reaches back to 1857, when the North Fork was a very different kind of place. That year, The Suffolk Times was...
07.20.2025 Editorials Editorial: The nuclear choice No one is pleased with the high cost of electricity in New York State, but why reject alternative energy solutions that pose none of the threats nuclear energy poses?...
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