04.14.2024 Editorials Editorial: For a few hours, we were all on the same page As the path of the solar eclipse moved across the sky on Monday and the moon began to cover first a sliver of the sun and then nearly all...
04.07.2024 Editorials Editorial: It’s one bungalow for farm workers, but it’s a start Back when thousands of acres on the North Fork were devoted to potatoes and duck farms lined nearly every creek, farm worker housing was a regional and national disgrace....
03.31.2024 Editorials Editorial: Setting the standard of public service There is so much to be cynical about in American politics these days, whether nationally, at the state level or even locally. Thankfully there are exceptions, and we are...
03.24.2024 Editorials Editorial: Greenport is bellwether for regional issues In so many ways, the issues Greenport Village is facing — from affordable and workforce housing, to the challenges confronting small businesses in a tourist economy, to hiring and...
03.10.2024 Editorials Confronting the realities of ‘affordable’ housing Last week’s Greenport Village Board work session on the issue of affordable housing in the small municipality saw members engage in a critical and much-needed discussion about a very...
03.03.2024 Editorials Editorial: The answer can’t always be ‘no’ Across the North Fork, as development projects are proposed and debated, the nearly universal response from most residents is an immediate, “No, that is not a good use of...
02.25.2024 Editorials Editorial: Maybe the sky is falling — so now what? A look at today’s real estate listings for single-family houses on the North Fork can take your breath away. The numbers suggest a new economic reality has taken hold...
02.19.2024 Editorials Editorial: Land — and Native burial sites — should be preserved There was considerable talk about the region’s critical environmental issues at last week’s roundtable convened by state Sen. Anthony Palumbo (R-New Suffolk) and attended by other key officials and...
02.11.2024 Editorials Editorial: From crisis comes a greater cause Each week, we try to publish stories in our newspapers that people will take the time to read and talk about with family and friends. Some carry more emotional...
02.04.2024 Editorials Editorial: What the present means for the future of farming In our October Northforker magazine story about the last remaining potato farmers on the North Fork, we told the story of Eric Wells. He grew up on farmland in...
01.28.2024 Editorials We welcome your letters — but let’s be civil We’d like to remind our readers of some basic rules for writing letters to the editor for publication in the Suffolk Times. First, we want to stress that we...
01.16.2024 Editorials Saturday’s high tide is a major concern On Saturday, Jan. 13, the impact of rising sea and bay levels was on full display all across the North Fork, particularly in Southold Town. If the remarkably high...
01.07.2024 Editorials Editorial: To our readers in 2024 The beginnings of Times Review Media Group reach back to 1857, when the North Fork was a very different place. That year, The Suffolk Times was born in the...
12.17.2023 Editorials Editorial: People who power small businesses are leaving N.Y. A new report by the Manhattan-based Fiscal Policy Institute reads like the proverbial canary in the coal mine story — something that signals danger ahead to anyone paying attention....
12.10.2023 Editorials Editorial: Indicted officials should not hold public office On Friday, George Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives by a vote of 311 to 114. That 114 congressional representatives could vote against expelling Mr. Santos is...