11.08.2026 Editorials Editorial: Help us choose our People of the Year The elections may be over, but another selection is just beginning. Every year at this time, we ask readers to nominate candidates for our People of the Year edition...
11.01.2026 Editorials Editorial: Experience earns our vote There are plenty of familiar faces on this year’s ballot. They’ve heard what North Fork residents are asking for: homes that year-round families can afford, clean drinking water, working...
10.25.2026 Editorials Editorial: Make a plan to vote 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...
10.18.2026 Editorials Editorial: Free press under fire Presidents, like all elected officials, dislike what they term “negative press” — almost always factual reports on their actions and policies — but President Trump has taken this to...
10.11.2026 Opinion Editorial: A family farm’s enduring promise There is a kind of continuity on the North Fork that can’t be measured in acresIt shows up in the people who rise before daylight, know a field by...
10.04.2026 Editorials Editorial: Hats off to the first responders North Fork residents were lucky last weekend. That might be a baffling statement to make after a nor’easter blew...
09.27.2026 Editorials Editorial: Doubling down The campaign to gut solar and wind power in the United States and promote fossil fuels is relentless. Paired...
09.20.2026 Editorials Editorial: When the North Fork shows up The North Fork raced to wrap the Drago family in a collective embrace after the unthinkable loss of their...
09.13.2026 Editorials Editorial: ‘The struggle of memory against forgetting’ The nation will be in mourning on Friday, Sept. 11, as it has been for the past 24 Septembers. The date in 2001 was the end of many things...
09.06.2026 Editorials Editorial: The hard work behind Labor Day Labor Day, America’s end-of-summer weekend celebration, lost its original meaning long ago. The first Monday in September was earmarked Labor Day as an election year appeasement by President Grover...
08.30.2026 Editorials Editorial: Tick tactics for the front line Terms such as “a war” or “an explosion” to describe social conditions or medical emergencies are often used by public officials and, yes, journalists — at times to sensationalize...
08.23.2026 Editorials Editorial: You’re being watched The novelist/prophet George Orwell famously created a police state with an authoritarian dictator running a country where surveillance was a method to ensure total mind and body control of...
08.16.2026 Editorials Editorial: Eagle shows Greenport its future — and its past For a few glorious days last weekend, Greenport looked like Greenport ought to look. Blue skies and warm breezes greeted families crowding into Mitchell Park and the docks to...
08.09.2026 Editorials Editorial: August Hang in there, we’re almost out of the woods. Or should we say out of the kennel? Next Tuesday, Aug. 11, we’ll have come through “the dog days of...
08.02.2026 Editorials Editorial: SCWA’s better route still leaves North Fork swamped Give the Suffolk County Water Authority credit: It listened. It listened at last enough to recognize that digging up Sound Avenue for its massive North Fork pipeline was a...
07.26.2026 Editorials Editorial: Bring back Claudio’s Amalfi at Claudio’s flamed out quicker than a Roman candle on the Fourth of July. In just one week, it went from a splashy new waterfront concept to the...
07.19.2026 Editorials Editorial: Patriot games Patriotism has become another political test. These days, people are judged not by how they treat their neighbors or whether they respect the law, but by the signs they...
07.12.2026 Editorials Editorial: Southold’s self-evident spirit Southold showcased its small-town charm and big-hearted hustle within a span of a few hours on the Fourth of July. It started with the annual parade and ended with...