07.12.2020 COVID-19 Editorial: A little common sense can prevent another surge of COVID-19 Across Long Island this past Fourth of July weekend, the beaches were packed. Saturday was hot and sunny and the beaches were a powerful attraction for people who have...
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...
07.04.2020 Editorials Editorial: A note from our publisher We are now in Phase 3 of the NY Forward reopening plan and more and more businesses, big and small, are trying to adapt, reinvent and find their way...
06.28.2020 Columns Guest Spot: For 111 days, we watched and admired I couldn’t hold back the tears last Friday as Gov. Andrew Cuomo gave his 111th — and final — daily press briefing during the COVID-19 crisis. He promised that...
06.27.2020 Editorials Editorial: Maskless and in a crowd is a bad look for Zeldin Few observers of American and New York politics could question the statement that 1st District Congressman Lee Zeldin is an ardent supporter of President Trump and all things Trump...
06.21.2020 Editorials Editorial: Historical society takes small, but significant, step It begins. Finally. Last week, the Oysterponds Historical Society removed the plaque marking a site on Narrow River Road in Orient where slaves are believed to have been buried....
06.15.2020 Columns Guest Spot: After 50 years, where are my former students now? In 1970, I was a newly minted third-grade teacher in Bushwick, Brooklyn. My students were Black and Latinx, living in crowded apartments, relying on school meals to hold back...
06.14.2020 Editorials Editorial: This struggle will also be waged in our town On April 12, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others were arrested in Birmingham, Ala., on charges that their peaceful demonstration against police brutality and segregation violated a...
